IconForge is a complete graphics suite for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors, and other images. It is used for creating icons for bookmarks and Favorites for your Web site, building filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, or even editing photos and other images. The program supports TWAIN scanners and camera devices, plug-in filters, and pressure-sensitive stylus and tablet devices.

Version 7.12 includes enhancements to cut and paste, file dialogs, enlarge canvas function, color selector, correction of an annoyance when run on multiple monitors.

Editor's review of IconForge Using the same icons, cursors, and wallpaper is like having houseguests overstay their welcome. IconForge lets you give your desktop a new personality with icons and cursors created from scratch or from existing images. This simple-to-master program employs tools common to many basic paint programs. IconForge is designed to work with small graphics, so every modification is made at the pixel level. Pixel by pixel, we were able to easily create icons from scratch using a full set of painting tools, patterns, and effects filters. Although it lacks a history panel, which would let you select from a list of previously performed actions to revert to a specific point, we found the utility packed with tools that made the creation process a snap. In addition to its basic function, IconForge comes with several other tool functions. ImageForge edits larger images prior to importing; ActivIcons places animated icons on your desktop; and Distribute Icons lets you pack icons into an installer file. Anyone looking to spruce up his or her PC can benefit from this program.