Axialis Cursor Workshop is a professional and excellent graphic editor to create high quality cursors, both static (CUR) and animated (ANI). It also comes equipped with a catalogue of cursors to choose from.
To each of the cursors Axialis Cursor Workshop lets you add elegant borders and shading. It also lets you save them in different graphic formats (BMP, PNG, PSD, JPG, etc), without losing quality. It supports working with a wide range of colours.
As for the design of animated cursors, Axialis Cursor Workshop lets you preview how they are turning out at any moment. Another outstanding function of Axialis Cursor Workshop is that it lets you open and get the cursors stored in runnable libraries: EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.