I generally use the MS Visual Studio icon editor to create icons for
wxPython, it works fine, so I can't actually justify doing this myself...
Since most people don't have Visual Studio, however, it might be a cool
project for a new user to create a simple icon generator that can create
.ico, .xbm, .bmp, .png etc. files with a little bitmap editor. You would
likely want to support cut/copy/paste operations so people can copy in
bitmaps from regular bitmap editors.
Visual Studio gives you a magnified image (with the lines between pixels
drawn), and a "real world" version of the icon. It provides a simple
palette for selecting colors. Its toolbar includes the normal pen, eraser,
geometric shapes, airbrush, choice of magnification levels, flood fill, and
"sample color" tools. Of particular note are the "screen" and "screen
background" colors and the erased area's registration as transparent areas,
all very useful.
It provides the following sizes, might want to include a larger size for Mac
icons as well...
16x16
32x32 Monochrome
48x48 256
32x32 256
32x32 True Color
Bonus points would allow saving cursor files as well (requires defining a
"hotspot" within the bitmap). Get it included in a couple of IDEs, maybe
make it a menu option in the Windows installer, and you have made yourself a
name 
.
Just a thought,
Mike
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