Do you have a great deal of icons collected from Internet? Do you admire all kinds of icons that some other applications or systerms such as WinXP, Vista, Mac, Linux and so on have used. Do you wish use favorite phonos of you as icons. Search for icons suit for you is hard and unpractical. Fortunately, I found a useful icon editing suite on the Internet recently. That is IconCool Studio which was designed by Newera Software Inc. and it becomes a great assistor of me at once.

IconCool Studio is an absolute solution for 32-bit icon and Vista icon creating, editing and modifying. With IconCool Studio as our icon helpmate, we can easily create, edit and modify our icons in our studio. With the new, more efficient user friendly interface, IconCool Studio has been developed to help us unleash our innovation and inspiration to experience the process and enjoy cheers. IconCool Studio supports latest Vista OS, creates Vista icon, fantastic IconCool Mixer, powerful marquee operation, visible filter operation, and flexible gradient editing. Overall, IconCool Studio is a powerful icon maker, icon creator, small image editor and small graphics maker. The key functions and benefits of IconCool Studio include:

IconCool Studio is a complete solution for 32 bit icon editing and creation. The program includes all standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of filters and effects that can be used to enhance our icon designs.

The included mixer of IconCool Studio enables us to create custom icons from scratch, using multiple layers and a variety of ready-to-use design elements. In addition to icon and (animated) cursor formats, the program also supports editing of GIF, JPG and PNG image files.

IconCool Studio not only supports and runs stable on the ultimate Windows Vista OS published by Microsoft Corporation but also supports icon editing and creating (including size of 256x256) on Windows Vista OS.

IconCool Mixer is a tool which is built in IconCool Studio, it provides users who are not a design specialist with a quick mechanism for creating world-class, professional icons. IconCool Mixer also provides other useful functions including image layering and blending styles. We can also, without having extensive graphic design training, create unique icons based on the hundreds of elements provided by us.

IconCool Studio has a lot of marquee tools for us to more conveniently and flexibly select any element of the canvas. Theses tools list as: Rectangular Marquee Tool, Ellipse Marquee Tool and Polygon Marquee Tool. While using these tools the experience of convenience and swiftness bears the features as well as that of Adobe Photoshop.

IconCool Studio has a function for creating three different states automatically for current icon which is being edited. The software will create Lighter (active), Current Pick (valid) and Gray Scale (invalid). Use this to make a suit of software toolbar buttons with ease.

IconCool Studio provides us with about more than 10 filter effects. We can open the preview panel and view the effect after adjusting the preferences by using filters as in Adobe Photoshop.

IconCool Studio has powerful and easy-to-use color tools, such as color panel, foreground color tool, background color tool, sample color tool and transparency setting tool. Moreover, in order to allow for color flexibly, IconCool Studio has options for changing from the currently used color to a transparent color or white, or any other color. IconCool Studio offers us convenient gradient tools, we can create, save, use and manage these gradients in the same way as we would in Adobe software family.

IconCool Studio can import a number of file types, such as PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF, PSD, TIF and so on, into the editing area. The import function has several powerful options that enable us to import an image with ease. What's more, IconCool Stuido enables us to export icons into various file types such as BMP, GIF, JPG, WMF, PNG, TGA, TIF, EMF, PSP and so on.

Without any other tools' attendance, IconCool Studio provides professional tools for us to create .CUR files and .ANI files which make our mouse cursor more vivid and lively. IconCool Studio also allows us to send an image to PhotoShop. From IconCool Studio, we just choose "Send this image to PhotoShop" from the pop-up menu. The current image will then be transferred to PhotoShop editing area.

IconCool Studio is easy to use with a friendly interface. As we all know that designers are accustomed to using design software such as PhotoShop, Flash, and Fireworks. With self-contained coding and optimization IconCool Studio allows more stable quality and running efficiency to be available.

IconCool Studio allows us to insert an external icon to current project when we want to view or edit the icon which is not presented on the canvas. Moreover, IconCool Studio allows us to excellently show the icon on different places to test its effects. Icon Viewing is an easy way to view our current edited icon before we want to finish our project.

IconCool Studio allows us to create styled watermark in the snapshot quickly. We can use this watermark as a special sign for our image to reserve copyright. With IconCool Studio we can capture the area we want to get directly and rapidly. By left-click on the mouse when starting Capture, be easy to drag the marquee to select specific area for image capturing.

IconCool Studio features fantastic magic wand tool for us. It's an easy way for us to select a consistent colored area. When we click an area in an image with magic wand tool, then all areas which are similar color will be selected. We need not to trace out the outline for the areas we want to select. It improves the preciseness for our operation and save our time.

Over all, IconCool Studio is an ideal solution for icon editing. Not only can beginners use it simply but also experienced users can use it for advanced application. IconCool Studio provides a free trial for us but many functions are disabled. It is a standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. IconCool Studio does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with most recent variants of Windows. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability, and free trial - why are you still reading? Download the free trial now and experience what powerful and effective it is at once!

IconCool Studio is a complete solution for 32 bit icon and Vista icon editing, modifying and creation. IconCool Studio supports some creative and brand-new functions, includes powerful marquee tools similar to Adobe PhotoShop and a convenient tool for making lighting effect. IconCool Studio 5 includes the magical IconCool Mixer which provides users who are not a design specialist with a quick mechanism for creating professional icons. You can, without having extensive graphic design training, create unique icons based on the hundreds of elements provided by us.

Create and edit Vista icons
IconCool Studio has begun to support the next generation OS Windows Vista from now on. You can create and edit Vista icons which include the compressed 256x256 images easily.
Vista Style Sample Icons(click to view)
There are some Vista sample icons in IconCool Studio package, and after registration you can get more Vista style icons created by our icon design team with IconCool Studio.

Support PSD Plug-in
IconCool Studio supports for PSD Plug-in, it allows you to transfer an image to IconCool Studio from Adobe Photoshop application and it also can send an image to Adobe Photoshop. IconCool Studio can load and export PSD (supports the transparence) , PNG, GIF, ANI file and so on.

Image filters and effects
IconCool Studio supports 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing... as well as 15 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Wave, 3D shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, and so on.
IconCool Studio lets you can set the coordinates and radial angle.

Support 25/12 formats to import/export
IconCool Studio can import images in the following formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, ICO, ICL, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP and WMF.
IconCool Studio can save icons or images in the following formats: BMP, CUR, GIF, JPG, ICL, ICO, PNG, WBMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and TIF.

What's new in IconCool Studio:
* Magical IconCool Mixer
IconCool Mixer is a tool which is built in IconCool Studio 5(Pro version), it provides users who are not design specialists with a quick mechanism for creating world-class, professional icons. IconCool Mixer also provides other useful functions including image layering and blending styles. You can also, without having extensive graphic design training, create unique Vista/XP icons based on the hundreds of elements provided by us.

* Powerful function for operating marquee
IconCool Studio 5 has added Rectangular Marquee Tool, Ellipse Marquee Tool and Polygonal Lasso Marquee Tool. These functions are similar to Adobe PhotoShop without limiting the limitation of the Rectangular Marquee for operating selection in the icon editing software. You can use them to make some powerful and convenient operations, such as move, fill, filter, etc.
* Convenient tool for making lighting effect
IconCool Studio 5 has a special lighting effect tool in the drawing tools that enables you to add lighting effect for images easily.
* Make different states of icons quickly
IconCool Studio 5 has a function for creating 3 different states automatically for current icon which is being edited. The software can create Lighter(active), Current Pick(valid) and Gray Scale(invalid) icons with few clicks. Use this to make a suit of software toolbar buttons with ease.
* Visible filter operation
IconCool Studio 5 provides you with many image filters and effects. You can open the preview panel and view the effect after adjusting the preferences, use filters just as in Adobe Photoshop.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.95, you can free download and get a free trial.