If you want to make icons by yourself, but you have not any drawing ability, how can you do? Maybe this icon maker will help you.

With BS Icon Maker, you can draw a cartoon-like icon from a photo:

AWicons is a powerful icon editor, small graphics editor as well as a cursor maker made by Lokas Software. AWicons contains three packages AWicons Lite, AWicons Standard and AWicons Pro. The AWicons Lite is a freeware and you can use it without any charge.

Pretty Icon Maker is a pretty icon maker which can create, convert and extract icons. It contains several filters(blur, smooth, sharpen...), several adjustments(Hue, Brightness, Contrast...) and several tools(Resize, Rotation, flip...), and all drawing tools have Anti-alias and Smoothness function.

Intead of including a drawing package, IconDeveloper allows users to import images and turn them quickly and easily into icons. It also makes it easy to change the colors of icons with three steps: choose the color sto change, choose the range of colors to change, and then shift the hue. There are two packages free and enhanced.

Paraben's Icon Builder is an icon tool. You can create icons and animated cursors, convert images to icons and extract icons out of the files with this software. Its editing is very personalized and the scripting can help you create an animated cursors easily.