Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a complex yet intuitive icon editor, that supports cursors, animations, icon libraries and images. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique tool for designing pixelgraphic images.
GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries.
It's lightweight (< 5 MB unzipped) and also has a portable version - just unpack it to your USB drive and use it anywhere.
A clean, customizable, multilanguage user interface makes it really easy to learn and use.
Here are some key features of "Portable Greenfish Icon Editor Pro":
· Opening and saving in ICO, CUR, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats
· Creating icons up to 256x256 @ 32-bit
· Creating Vista(tm)-compatible, PNG compressed icons
· Sophisticated selecting tools like marquee, lasso and magic wand, as in a professional photo editor
· Creating and testing cursors
· Extracting icons and cursors from executable files
· Dynamic color depth: you do not have to specify it explicitly, Greenfish Icon Editor will determine it for you.
· Painting easily in 32-bit
· Drawing lots of kinds of gradients
· Lots of filters including Hue shift, Remove matte and Drop shadow
· Sample icons are included
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved: GFIE will be cross-platform in the near future
· Rearranged user interface: tabs instead of MDI windows
· Greatly improved: image processing speed
· Added feature: loading/saving Apple ICNS files
· Added feature: loading/saving JPEG 2000 files
· Added feature: loading/saving 16-bit executables and icon libraries
· Added feature: pressing Escape deselects all
· Added feature: rotating selection by an arbitrary angle
· Added feature: textboxes which expect numbers can now accept and calculate expressions, like 12*(128+10)
· Added feature: Wand/Bucket can be switched to non-contiguous mode
· Added feature: patterns for drawing
· Added feature: new blend modes: Hue, Hue Shift and Saturation
· Added feature: new menu items "Import pages" and "Export all pages"
· Fixed bug: XPM export sometimes wrote unescaped backslash (\) characters into output