Metro Icon Editor

Icons definitely mean a lot when it comes to visual appearance of the desktop or GUI. That’s the reason most of the computer users opt for using as stylish icons as they can. So here is a solution that can aid you in editing lovely icons in an easy way. The solution is nothing but Metro Icon Editor 5.10. This application can be described as a power-packed icon editing utility that has got brilliant features. Using this tool you can design or even create icons that compile the icons of Windows 8 along with other icons that are similar to the trends of the current era. The application has got a simple but intuitive UI which enables all kinds of users from novice to expert create icons effectively.

Metro Icon Editor offers a platform for customizing icons in all shapes and sizes and in color depths ranging up-to 16 million colors. Unlike other tool it will make it very simple for creating icons for Windows version XP, 7, and 8 that too in 32bit color-depth along with 8bit alpha channel. Images can be painted with regular gradient and chess fill plus modifies the images using opacity, shadow, smooth, hue/saturation, mirror effects etc. Management of the icon libraries is possible quite easily with it and because of this storage of the icons becomes quite efficient. No matter what the format of images be like ICPR, BMP, JPEG etc. they can be easily imported and pasted as icon. Besides creating icons of Windows Desktop, the utility also aids in creating icons for web application and mobile applications such as Android, Windows Mobile and several others.

So if you are developing any application or want to simply enable your system to look good, Metro Icon Editor can lend a helping hand and for which we can allot it 3 stars after deep evaluation.

Metro Icon Editor is your way for creating and editing PNG-packed Windows Vista icons; icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors; icons for Windows 8 in 32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha channel. It offers a professional level workshop for designing the icon structure of your Windows. Want your system outward appearance to be more eye-appealing? Metro Icon Editor has a knack for refining your system interface!
Here you will be able to paint images with gradient and chess fill and modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, hue/saturation, color replacement, rotate, roll and mirror effects. A variety of graphic formats are available: you can open and edit ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG images, or you can export your creation to ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG and PNG files.
Broad opportunities provided by the program allow you to extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files. Moreover, you can extract icons from all files in selected folders and subfolders and save them as icon libraries.
Besides, in Metro Icon Editor you will find some pleasant features that greatly widen the comfort of the program's use: ability to sort images inside icons and icons inside libraries, ability to customize Windows Desktop and folder icons. The program will let you drag and drop files from file shells or icons between different libraries. Needless to say, that Metro Icon Editor supports all 32-bit Windows, so the type of your OS is not a hindrance to your desktop's perfection!
Coming soon: iPhone Icon Extractor