ICO to PNG

What Is an ICO to PNG Converter?

This browser-based program extracts icons from an ICO file and saves them as PNG format images. An ICO file is an image file format that usually contains several smaller images of different dimensions that are used as favicons on web pages and represent Windows (and also OSX/MacOS) programs, files, and folders. The ICO format images can be 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, and 256×256 pixels in size. As soon as you upload an icon file to the input, the program parses it, finds all the icons it contains, and draws all the found icons in the preview area. In the options, you can find the information about each icon that's found in the ICO file. The information includes the dimensions of the icons and their actual data type (usually, this it's BMP or PNG). You can convert all icons to PNGs at once, or selectively select one or more icons to be converted. To select an icon, click on it in the preview area; to deselect an icon, click on it again. You can also specify the icon positions that you want to extract in the options. For example, you can enter numbers "1, 2, 5" and that will extract icons one, two, and five. All selected icons are highlighted in the preview with a dashed line and they also instantly appear in the output preview field as PNG images. Additionally, you can export cursors from CUR files. Cursors are actually icons but the filename ends with the ".cur" extension. Png-abulous!

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