Portable Icon Editor

Across the digital universe, icons are used to depict a host of elements and have a rather important role. Irrespective of whether you are creating a website or a software application, the aesthetical appeal of icons can go a long way in making your users like the interface. While you can always download standard icons from the internet, customizing them is a tricky job and mandates the need of specialized tools such as the Portable Icon Editor 5.13. This versatile application has been conceived with the salient purpose of modifying icons to your taste and boasts of an enviable collection of editing features, especially useful for modifying Windows icons.

When you launch the Portable Icon Editor 5.13 application you are greeted with a sleek interface with a host of editing options placed on the left menu. When you select an icon in the work area, a host of details about it are showcased in the right pane. You can effectively work with icon structure, color depth and range of other parameters. Moreover if you are looking to induce effects such as drop shadow or experiment with the saturation or hue, the application proves to be rather apt. After you have worked on an icon set you can save them in libraries for easy access. The application also gives you the flexibility to work with gradients and introduce mirror effects. Moreover the tool allows you to edit and save icons present in different image formats such as BMP, ICO, JPEG etc.

From a perspective of a graphics designer the Portable Icon Editor 5.13 is a rather potent tool that can save many hours and gives excellent results. We mark the tool with a score of three rating stars on account of its overall ease of use and rich feature set.

Portable Icon Editor is your way for creating and editing PNG-packed Windows 8 icons; icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors; icons for Windows 8 in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel. It offers a professional level workshop for designing the icon structure of your Windows. Want your system outward appearance to be more eye-appealing? Portable Icon Editor has a knack for refining your system interface!
Here you will be able to paint images with gradient and chess fill and modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, color replacement, rotate, roll and mirror effects. A variety of graphic formats are available: you can open and edit ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG images, or you can export your creation to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files.
Broad opportunities provided by the program allow you to extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files. Moreover, you can extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries.
Besides, in Portable Icon Editor you will find some pleasant features that greatly widen the comfort of the program's use: ability to sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries, ability to customize Windows Desktop and folder icons. The program will let you drag and drop files from file shells or icons between different libraries. Needless to say, that Portable Icon Editor supports all 32-bit Windows, so the type of your OS is not a hindrance to your desktop's perfection!
Coming soon: iOS Tabbar Icon Editor.