If you are a designer or a software developer, you will sooner or later will be challenged with the task of creating icons for your product. Or you could aspire to make your own icons merely for yourself - as part of new desktop theme etc. Icon Studio is a program to use.
     Icon Studio is a specialized editor for creating icons. Its interface is in most ways similar to other image editors, yet it lets you easily compose an icon on pixel level. You can create icons of 16 and 256 colors - full palettes are displayed in the left part of the window. There are simple drawing tools like pen, pencil and brush, eraser and color picker, circles and rectangles to aid your creativity.
     The resulting image can be saved in the ICO file format. The editor comes with its own library of icons and lets you browse other icon libraries. The program is free yet requires an activation code, which can be obtained from the developers' website for free. Download it today and check it out yourself.