Falco Icon Studio

Falcon Icon Studio is an application that facilitates a user-friendly interface and practical tools for designing and saving icon files. It features numerous effects and enhancements that can be easily applied to the pictures.

Installing this tool doesn't take long. However, because it's ad-supported, it offers to download and install other software that's not really required. This offer can be declined, though, but it's not possible to opt out of creating desktop shortcuts to some webpages unrelated to the icon maker.

The interface is clean and intuitive whose main window contains a menu bar, toolbar, drawing bar and color palette. The types of image files that can be opened are ICO, CUR, ANI, AVI, TARGA, TIFF, ICL, EXE, DLL, Photoshop (PSD, PDD), animated GIF, PNG, BMP, JPG and Kodak (PCD).

Using the drawing tools, you can make rectangular, ellipsoidal, Lasso, hue and color selections as well as add spray, stamps, brushes, lines, text and blur. Images can be saved in any of the formats supported for the input as well as exported to ICL (Icon Library). It's also possible to duplicate icons, optimize GIF and set the general rate.

The color mode and image resolution can be changed. When it comes to effects, you can explore and apply swap, noise reduce, brightness, contrast, HSB, blur, color inversion, emboss, mosaic and contrast filter, among others. Meanwhile, the image improvement menu has options for Van Gogh, cubism, erode, cartoon, red eye remover, advanced emboss, soft glow, whirl and pinch, neon, video, motion blur, super nova, and oilify filters.

Falcon Icon Studio worked smoothly on Windows 10 in our tests, without hanging, crashing or prompting errors. It left a small footprint on system resources usages. Aside from the tricky installer, Falcon Icon Studio proves to be a feature-rich icon editing application with approachable options.