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Icon Brush is a full featured icon creating and editing program for Mac OS X, capable of creating all forms of macintosh icons, as well as windows icons. It is also AppleScriptable and recordable.
Main features:
- Edits OSX native .icns files and Windows .ICO files
- Edits 32-bit icons
- Automate your iconing tasks with Apple-Script
- Works well wit resource editors such as ResEdit
- Edit icons of folders and drives
- Insert icons into an existing file
- Comes with templates for standard icons like documents, folders, docklings, and more
- Several powerful image editing tools to get your icons looking just right
- Preview your icon in the dock while you edit it
- Edit Mac OS X .rsrc (resources-in-data fork) files
- See full feature list in the release notes file included in the download.
Version restrictions:
- Registration screen at startup.
Enhancements:
- Fixed some crash bugs introduced in 2.5.4. Sorry about that, folks.

IconBuilder Pro is an Adobe Photoshop effects filter that helps you create icons for both the Macintosh and Windows platform. It also comes with a short guide on recommended "icon recipes" which help you create high quality icons in an efficient manner.
Main features:
- Creation of Mac and Windows icons in standard and unique sizes
- Creation of icon resources of any size up to 1024x1024 pixels
- Ability to save generic image formats, such as TIFFs, BMPs, etc.
- Standard and custom Grid Files and Presets that can be shared
- Build icons for an entire project with a single filter pass
- Expanded resource protection and information via new Verification Report
- Save icons in multiple file formats at the same time
- Adjustable alpha thresholds when creating 8-bit resources
- Apply all of an icons resources to a layer with a single click
- Revised and expanded documentation
- Revised and expanded Iconbuilder Assistant Photoshop actions
- Handy Keyboard Shortcuts menu for easy reference
- Pixel Grid and Coordinate Tool
- Developed entirely in Cocoa for power and flexibility
- Import existing icons
- Creation of Normal and Open/Drop icon states in Mac OS X
- Ability to view icons against various background colors
- Cloning resources - create missing or non-existent resources for lower bit depths
- Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2
- Compatible with Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.
Version restrictions:
- Startup delay.
Enhancements:
- A check for duplicate resources now occurs before saving icon files
- Adding a new resource group now automatically unlinks the marquees
- Fixed a bug which caused IconBuilder to appear below Photoshops palettes
- Presets now work correctly on Japanese systems (with Unicode characters)
- Presets folder can now be displayed even before a preset has been saved.

iCoco is a fun and easy to use program that creates icons out of pictures, based on a template. You can make folder icons, harddisk icons, cd-rom icons with your favorite pictures on it. In fact you can make any shape, circle, star, characters and add any structure like bevel, dropshadow or highlight.
A set of templates is included but you can make your own. iCoco can be used to create project icons, client icons, birthday, Christmas, in love, financial icons, fun icons, family icons, baby icons, party icons etc. etc. Just choose a template and drop a picture on the application, icoco will create a new folder icon for you or apply it to an existing file or folder.
Version restrictions:
- Nag screens.
Enhancements:
- Now its possible to apply 6 image filters before creating an icon; sharpen, smooth, colorbalance, greyscale, contrast and brightness
- Added templates.

Requirements:
MacOS 8.5 or later.

Icon Exporter Plug-in is a simple exporting plug-in allowing Photoshop users to export composite RGB layer data as a 32-bit Mac OS X icon (128 x 128 pixels).

The plug-in can also transfer the first alpha channels to be a 8-bit Deep Mask with different levels of transparency. Mac OS X is required to view the transparency of icons.

Paradise App Icons is a light and detailed set of icons in gold and light blue ranges to make sacred your applications.