RealWorld Icon Editor 2006.2

Professional designers make icons from 3D models or from vector images. See how to create an icon from 3D object in five simple steps in RealWorld Icon Editor.
RealWorld Icon Editor is more than a simple icon creator. You can learn more about icon making, 3D graphics editing and image editing.
Main features:
- Light reflection, refraction - supported in raytracing renderer for better glass or water effects as well as general reflections.
- Palette generation and dithering - improved for 16 and 256 colors icons. Application allows drawing with any color and automatically updates palette and dithers image.
- Gamma correction - configurable in raytracing renderer and in image-to-icon convertor.
- Alpha in JPEG2000 - is now fully supported.
- Save to GIF - export image to GIF with transparency and selected number of colors.
- Simplified image handling - image viewer and image editor scenarios were merged. Image files are opened for editing by default and are saved using original image file format if possible.
- Projected shadow - this raster image editor tool allows quick creation of Vista-like projected shadows.
- Open/save - add your own favorite folders and swith to them by single mouse click.
- Icon from image internals - supports sizes from 1x1 to 256x256, including non-square proportions, keeps aspect ratio. Can apply soften or sharpen filters on per image basis.
- Icon from image GUI - new wizard and batch processor.
- Raster image editor improvements - includes "Paint under" blending mode, polyline with configurable joins and caps, ability to modify control points of curves and polylines. Coordinates displayed in status bar.
- Configuration management - can export and import window layouts and menu commands.
- Textures in 3D-text - textures (including bump-maps) can be used with 3D-text U3D module.
- Image and icon mixing with drag and drop - if and image file is dragged from Windows Explorer to raster image editor, it is pasted as new selection into current image. Similar rule applies for icon files and list of icon images window.
- Image transformations - rotation by arbitrary angle and perspective transformation.
- Image filters - sharpening, blurring, smoothing, mean removal, drop shadow, motion blur, ... Filters are java-scripted and can be applied to entire image or selected rectangle (when editing images).
- Configurable menus and toolbars - menu and toolbars are now part of window layout configuration.