Good free tool for making Icons

Question

I am putting finishing touches on my app and want to make a custom icon for it.

What is the best free tool to make icons with?

Answer 1

IcoFX is my preference.

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

Answer 2

Assuming its windows, I use paint.net with the icon plugin for it