IconPainter is a cross-platform Java image editor for creating and manipulating small as well as larger images. Features include:

• Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and OS/2
• Images of any dimension in true color
• Transparent overlays, color gradient shading and automatic antialiasing
• Drawing can be done directly on the image or on a pixel grid
• Predefined shapes including circle, ellipse, rectangle, triangle plus user defined polygons with any number of vertices as well as quadratic and cubic curve drawing
• Text of any size and in any installed Java 2 font
• Rotation, shifting, flipping with undo/redo and floodfill
• Reflections and tiles can be easily created
• External images can be cut and pasted in
• Reads and writes PNG, ICO, CUR, BMP, ANI, JPEG plus GIF (non-LZW) and TIFF
• Full support for the Unix XPM format with XPM color choosing by XPM name or from a special XPM palette
• Full support for the Mobile Phone WAP WBMP format
• Filters to buttonize, gray-out, lighten, darken and others including custom convolves.
• Polygon shapes can be predefined and drawn as needed
• Shapes can be filled with a texture instead of color
• Allows screen capture and then cutting, editing and saving from the captured image
• User manual integrated into the product

Links for IconPainter are:

• Download the latest IconPainter version
• Screen shot of IconPainter running (shown below)
• Screen shot of the IconPainter image chooser being used (72K JPEG)
• Screen shot of IconPainter editing a Microsoft animated cursor (ANI) file (65K JPEG)
• Purchase IconPainter for 11.95USD - but try it first!
• Gallery of images: Well that's this website, where all the 32x32 icons come from IconPainter

Running IconPainter

To start IconPainter after Java 2 is installed and the product is downloaded and unzipped, Windows users should just double click the "IconPainter.jar" file to start the application.

IconPainter and WBMP

Try before you buy