Freeware program to view icons. You can view all the icons that are contained in an EXE, DLL, ICO, or ICL file, or you can view (at the same time) all the icons that are contained in a directory. Besides that you can compare icon files to see whether they are identical or not, and search the current directory for duplicates of an icon.
It can create icons from any paint program you have. Instead of using primitive icon editors that are usually not better then windows paint, now you can draw icons in any drawing/painting program. Program conversion supports 4, 8, 16, and 24 bit mode icons. With this tool you are able to convert any bitmap(s) into icon, it is simple but professional.
IconArt is a highly-compact icon & cursor creator. Icons are used to illustrate programs and files. One example are the shortcuts on your desktop. Cursors are used for mouse pointers.
IconArt allows you to either draw the whole icon or cursor from scratch using all common tools or to import an image to turn into a icon (or cursor!).
The layout is based on MS paint but has a large number of extra tools.