How to Make your Own Icon Image in Microsoft Windows

Icon

What is an Icon? Ask google 🙂

Icon uses “.ico” file extension. See here for more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

If you want to create your icon, it’s very easy. 

Firstly, Set your picture/s you want to create.

Mine is the Tic Toe that i posted

Here

If you don’t have pictures, yet. You can use “screen shot” method using PrtSc (Print Screen) on your keyboard

After doing that

Open your paint ,type “Paint” in search bar, hit enter

Paste the screen shot into the paint program (Ctrl-V)

Then do what you want

I cropped the useful part for my icon image

(sorry if i included the “O” and “X”)

Save as PNG, nothing else

Now, we have to convert this .PNG image file to .ICO image file

If you don’t have a converter software, we have to convert this online.

There are lots of ICON converter online

But i preferred this site

https://iconverticons.com/online/

Browse your PNG file

Upload it

When your done, Click the ICO button, see the above image

Wait, til your file has been downloaded.

(if an error occurred  “contains no icons”, re-download your file,)

Another method is using the Snipping Tool, it is more easy to use compare to “Print Screen”

Find this tool by typing “Snipping Tool” in search bar.

To use it, open your snipping tool, follow these images below

Save your file as .PNG, then convert it to .ICO

That’s All 🙂