How to convert .ICO to .PNG?

Question

What tool can I use to convert a .ICO file to a .PNG file?

Answer 1

ConvertICO.com has always worked fine for me.

Answer 2

ImageMagick can convert practically any widely used image format to another.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php in particular

There are ImageMagick bindigs for most popular languages.

Answer 3

http://converticon.com/ is also a candidate.

Answer 4

I don't know where I would be without IrFanView. Fantastic for batch converting images, including ico to png.

Answer 5

You can use IcoFX (free)

It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

Answer 6

This is probably a rather silly answer, but if you only need one icon, you could just take a screenshot of the icon in the folder and chop out the part you want. Make sure the icon is showing the size you want and has a white background, of course.

If you are using a decent screenshot application like SnagIt or WinSnap, a region snap should take care of it within a few seconds.

Note that this won't give you transparency.

Answer 7

@icon sushi is very good for working with icons:

Features

• icon sushi can convert image files into icon files and vice versa.
• Support for Windows Vista large icons. (convert large image with PNG compression)
• Support for Windows XP 32bit Icons.
• Support for Multiple-Icon which contains some icons in a file.
• Edit Alpha channel and Transparency-Mask.
• Open 1x1 to 256x256 size of images.
• Open 1/4/8/24/32bits color images.
• Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL
• Copy to / Paste from Clipboard.

Answer 8

If you'r not looking for something programmatic then just 'Print Screen' and crop.

Answer 9

There is an online conversion tool available at http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/. In addition to generating the .ico it will also give you an animated .gif version.

Answer 10

Google has an ico to png converter, I saw it on reddit the other day.

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=stackoverflow.com

Answer 11

One quick option is to download Paint.net and install the Icon/Cursor plugin. You can then open .ico files with Paint.net, edit them, and save them to .png or another format.

For batch processing, I second the suggestions of ImageMagick or IrFanView.

Answer 12

XnView is a great graphics utility for Windows/Mac/Linux (free) (download page) that will let you browse images, batch convert, transform, resize, rotate, take screenshots etc.

It can do your XYZ to ICO conversion where XYZ is almost any format under the sun.

Answer 13

Thanks, but justly I search something programmatic. No software or online tool because I want to include a script on my website. It contains some pictures, and in one click I want to purpose ICO download for my users.

Answer 14

Icon Convert is another online tool with resize option.

Answer 15

Check out http://iconverticons.com/ - iConvert allows you to easily convert Windows ico to Mac OS X icns, SVG to Windows icons, PNG ico to Mac OS X ico, JPG images to Windows icons, and much more.