Iconion 2.5

Iconion is a nice application that does a great job of letting you easily create great-looking PNG icons. It provides a large collection of simple, non-intricate icons that can be used as templates for creating completely new, fully personalized icons for your own purposes. These provided icons are listed on the left side of the interface by their collection name and by their author.

Select one, and then you may preview it in the central area of the interface. From the right side, various modifications can be applied, including gradients, shadows, borders, opacity changes, color changes, background color changes, rotations, and so on. General styles can also be previewed and applied from the upper left panel, but note that not all styles are also available in the free version of this application. As a final step, you can save the edited icon in various standard sizes, including 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128 or 256 bits, or to custom dimensions. PNG is not the only supported output format – Iconion also allows you to save the icons as JPG, ICO or BMP files.

As you can see, using Iconion is simple and easy. Iconion is also a great solution to replace your older, outdated icons with modern, better-looking ones. It’s only disadvantage besides the fact that some styles are restricted in the free version is that it doesn’t let you work with icons imported from your own files, but only with the provided icon templates. Therefore you can’t create an icon from scratch, but you can thoroughly modify the existing presets (the icon fonts).

To sum it all up, Iconion is really easy to use and handy. Anyway, it’s a bit pricey though, also considering the aforementioned downsides.