Stardock has released Icon Developer 1.0. IconDeveloper is an icon creation program designed with mainstream users in mind. It makes it incredibly easy to create icons.

While other icon editing programs come with their own built in editors, IconDeveloper assumes that people making icons are going to either make their images in Photoshop or take an existing image (PNG, JPG, etc.) to turn into an icon. As a result it only takes a few steps to take a graphic file and turn it into an icon -- with all common icon sizes/formats created automatically.

IconDeveloper also allows users to easily change the color of particular parts of an icon and entire sets of icons at once without affecting other colors. For example, a user who wants to turn all of their folders from yellow to blue without affecting the other items on that folder icon can do so easily.

IconDeveloper is a free download. The registered version is $19.95 and has a host of additional features. It can also be purchased as part of Stardock's Object Desktop.

Visit www.icondeveloper.com to download