AX-Icons is a powerful and easy-to-use program for editing and managing icons. It is ideal for retouching, creating, archiving, and distributing icons. It allows you to create all kinds of icons in sizes from 16 x 16 pixels to 72 x 72 pixels, as well as customised sizes. The built-in editor includes tools for numerous painting effects: gradients, lines, rectangles, ellipses, text insertion, mirrors, rotations, colour replacement, 3D frames, multiple brush sizes and shapes, undo/redo, advanced palette support and fill. Version 4.5 features a new interface, 'favourites' list management, enhanced bitmap importation, the ability to export as a bitmap, and the ability to save as DLL.