Graphics - Icon and Cursor Editors (8)

ASysIcon allows for the viewing and saving of the registered system icons. Along with the icon image, ASysIcon also displays the associated icon index within the system imagelist. ASysIcon also allows you to copy icons to the Windows® Clipboard for pasting into other applications. The icon list can also be printed.

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a tool for creating icons, animated or static cursors, and other small images. Can extract icons and cursors from executable files and icon libraries, batch convert image files to icons or other image formats, and supports advanced selection handling (marquee, lasso and wand tools, saving/loading selections from files). Offers various gradient styles for filling shapes, and includes many filters such as remove matte, drop shadow, inner/outer glow and bevel etc.

Opens and saves in ICO, CUR, ANI, PNG, XPM, BMP and JPEG formats and creates icons and cursors up to 256x256 @ 32-bit, which can also be PNG-compressed for use in Vista.

RealWorld Cursor Editor can create and edit cursors, both static and animated. You can draw your cursors pixel by pixel or make them from images using a simple wizard. Images in cursors can be modified by drawing tools such as Lines, Curves, Rectangles, or Ellipses. A drag-and-drop based interface allows users to easily reorder, duplicate, or append frames to animated cursors.

The program contains several predefined filters covering color corrections, softening, sharpening, motion blur and other effects. Selected filters (for example drop shadow) can be applied on multiple images at once.

Can import cursors from Linux XCursor format.

AniFX is an all-in-one solution for cursor creation, extraction and editing. Includes many tools and more than 40 effects. Can utilize images, export cursors to images, or import them from Windows and Mac files. Animated GIF files can be converted to cursors and vice versa.

Supports transparency with XP/Vista/7 cursors and batch processing.

Note: the official website is offline so we are linking to the archive.org mirror. Alternatively, AniFX Portable is also available.