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The Iconfactory
IconBuilder is a filter for use with Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks that makes creating icons for either the Macintosh or Windows operating systems a snap. IconBuilder has been enhanced for increased compatibility for use with Photoshop CS / Fireworks MX and Mac OS X.
Keep in mind that IconBuilder itself is not an icon editor. You use your existing image editing software as your editor in combination with IconBuilder as your assembly tool. Using this method, making icons has never been easier!
Keep in mind that IconBuilder itself is not an icon editor. You use your existing image editing software as your editor in combination with IconBuilder as your assembly tool. Using this method, making icons has never been easier!
What's New
Version 8.5.3:
- Free upgrade for registered users of 8.5
- Support for 1024×1024 icons in Mac OS X 10.7
- Updated links to external help pages
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Photoshop or Fireworks (CS3 or CS4) installed.
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| Downloads:39,035 |
| Version Downloads:568 |
| Type:Utilities : Icon Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:02 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $79.00 |
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IconBuilder is a filter for use with Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks that makes creating icons for either the Macintosh or Windows operating systems a snap. IconBuilder has been enhanced for increased compatibility for use with Photoshop CS / Fireworks MX and Mac OS X.
Keep in mind that IconBuilder itself is not an icon editor. You use your existing image editing software as your editor in combination with IconBuilder as your assembly tool. Using this method, making icons has never been easier!
Keep in mind that IconBuilder itself is not an icon editor. You use your existing image editing software as your editor in combination with IconBuilder as your assembly tool. Using this method, making icons has never been easier!
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mstsuji reviewed on 31 Dec 2011
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Corpsecorps reviewed on 16 Nov 2007
The ability to create custom grid files and work on toolbar sets *could* be handy for somebody.
Perhaps for a pro requiring the cross-platform support it would be worth it to have all the flexibility of going back and forth between various formats and to pay $80, but i could come up with a dozen ways to make a simpler UI that didn't require all these grid files to get proper alignment.
It would make more sense to have something similar to the simplicity of Apple's IconComposer, that would include dropping variants and output to formats other than .icns files, and have it integrated with Photoshop (or not).
This to too much money for a bizarre UI.
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Sheik Yerbouty reviewed on 05 May 2007
I been using it several years to make all my icons and couldn't live without it.
As Luther mentioned, the first steps are not easy. You have to know the different icon formats to make the right icon. Beginners want to create quickly without reading a manual. So, if you only make icons once in a while and just for your self, then yes there are easier tools available and you should avoid IconBuilder at all costs. Those tools will mostly let you save your icons in 1 or 2 formats and avoid trouble by giving you only a few features.
But! If you're serious about icons and you don't want to be limited then there is only one, IconBuilder, no other app does what IconBuilder can. Professional icon makers have NO choice, if they want to be called professional that is. The combination of Photoshop & IconBuilder has brought me to 'Icon Nirvana', and it's good living there.
About the price:
I'm split in 2 on this one. As a non professional icon maker I would like IconBuilder to be cheaper. $79 is too much for me and most people, free would be good :)
But for the creation needs that I have, no single app can fulfill them, except IconBuilder. Unless I buy several apps that would complement each other, but that would be tedious to work with and make a it hard to implement in a work flow. Also, you must know that there businesses that depends on this little gem. From this point of view, IconBuilder is quite cheap.
It all comes down on how frequently you make icons and which are your targets.
If it's only 1 icon in a year and only for 1 platform, then there are much cheaper and easier tools that will do the job and give you a satisfactory result.
As a professional, you have no choice, this is the one, the only one.
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iPhone4S reviewed on 24 May 2006
Then I ran across Easy Bake Icon and IconDroplet, and with those freeware tools, I was able to create my own MacBook icon in a matter of minutes! IconBuilder may be right for others, but for me, the freeware tools were the way to go. It was so fun and easy, I might just make myself a few more icons.
Anonymous reviewed on 08 Aug 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 06 Aug 2005
It's just not that difficult to create icons with Photoshop and a couple of cheap, or free utilities.
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If however, you are creating more than a few icons for multiple operating systems, or need to quickly and easily create toolbar, or image format icons then IconBuilder might be right for you.
Also, if you have never built icons before and have a client that requires an icon that works perfectly on Windows 2000 NT, and you're not sure what resources should go into the icon, IconBuilder would be just what you are looking for. No other icon construction software helps the user to determine what is and isn't necessary based on platform or particular OS. This is just one of the many, powerful features of the filter.
But I guess the developers studied their target market and think they can get away with it so arguing about it is kinda pointless and I just wasted 5 minutes of my life right there :P
GraphicConverter is DEFINITELY a worthwhile shareware.
But this plugin should not be HALF the price of a Photoshop CS 2 upgrade!
Anonymous reviewed on 06 Aug 2005
That means your using a pirate serial, or have done in the pasted lol
Anonymous reviewed on 18 Mar 2005
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If is because is pirated Serial,
I Will search for other app,
because 79$ for made icon is sod,
isn't it ?