I'm just curious about what you use to make icons.
Just use every Graphit program you want.
I take photoshop and then just save it down to 32x32 128x128 or whatever!
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I use Paint.NET to draw and GraphicsGale to convert to .ico
If you need .ico files I would like to recommend Greenfish Icon Editor Pro.