• How To Open Ico Files
• Convert Unsupported Files

How to Create Icon Files for Your Windows App using Visual Studio and Microsoft Paint. This article describes how to use Visual Studio and Microsoft Paint to create icons for your Windows app starting with an existing bitmap. It's a lot easier to paste from the icon editor within VS2005 when making new image types within the ico. I noticed that when I take my pictures it would save and when I try to go back and view them from my digital camera it would say ' Unsupported image file.' I took small video clips and those where okay.

Though GIMP has some support for handling CMYK workflow there is one part that isn’t available and that is opening existing Adobe Photoshop files (.PSD) that use the CMYK model.From a private book or card design point of view the one main place you’ll see these.PSD files is with online printers who provide you with only.PSD files as templates for the media sizes they print on. These files have a few or just one layer of the exact size that you have to make your material and so just happen to specify CMYK model rather than needing this.GIMP cannot open these type of.PSD files if they use CMYK: GIMP can only open PSD files that use RGB. It will fail with the error message, Error loading PSD file: Unsupported colour mode: CMYKand before you ask, no the will not work here – that only has support for CMYK Tiff import and it does not alter how the existing PSD import works.You have three to four options to help here,a) Use the imagemagick convert program to convert the colour space to RGB and createa PNG file. SeeThe command I use is, convert input.psd -channel RGBA -alpha Set -colorspace rgb output.pngwhere input.psd is my input filename from the online printer service and output.png is the output filename I give the files.If this is a single layer then it will create just the “output.png” whereas if it is layers then it will create layers plus one; a merged (or flattened) layer png which it names output-0.png and one file per layer called output- n.png where n is the layer from bottom to top e.g.

Output-1.png, output-2.png for a 2-layer image.You may be asking why not make that a.XCF file i.e. The GIMP native format?

Well if you try making the output a.XCF then you will probably get an error message like “Unsupported compression mode: 33535” if you try with the default compression or “Procedure ‘file-psd-load’ returned no return values” if you try without compression when you open that file in GIMP. So it doesn’t really make it a native GIMP XCF file as you can see that it still keeps the format as PSD. OK so what about.TIFF files? Well if you try using.TIFF files (which are multiple pages) then it may work if all the pages are the same size but if one layer isn’t then GIMP will bork with “Calling error for procedure ‘gimp-image-resize’: Procedure ‘gimp-image-resize’ has been called with value ‘-’ for argument ‘new-width’ (#2, type GimpInt32). This value is out of range.” I think its safe to say that you should stay with a bunch of.PNG files.b) Alternatively use an online web based reader that can work with CMYK modePSD files e.g.c) Get a friend to open and save the file as a multiple page.TIFF or set the colour mode to RGB for a.PSD file for you.d) Install a trial version of Photoshop. You would have 30 days or so to register so this is quite a complex process and really is a last resort.Note that I’m only interested in opening these simple printer templates.

If you have complex images from a graphics department that has created something for you in Photoshop and has sent you.PSD files then you are advised to use Photoshop if you depend upon a fidelity of the content because though GIMP handles layers in PSD files it has a few differences in any conversion process e.g. It will rasterize what should stay as a vector e.g. Text and other vector objects and it will lose layer masks and effects such as layer styles. Arguably a Photoshop user would be as equally stumped if sent a GIMP native.XCF file.Also if the provided template actually uses colours and is trying to show you what this will look like (e.g.

It is coloured stock) then unless you have setup your whole PC with the correct colour profiles (ICC files for the CMYK and process and your PC screen) then this is all going to be meaningless to you so you’re still going to have to rely on proofs to see if it looks like on paper is what you expected.This entry was posted in,. Bookmark the.

.jpg,.mp3,.mp4 are format extensions many of us are pretty used to now – but who knew there were so many out there?Finding a file in a format that’s incompatible with the device you want to use it on is a fairly common occurrence, whether it’s a video you want to watch on your tablet or just a text file you’re trying to open in a word processor.It’s a problem that annoys plenty of people, but thankfully there are a few solutions you can try which will convert the format for you. Here are some common ones you may stumble across: Office documentsProductivity applications such as Microsoft Office are generally pretty good at opening files in formats other than their ‘native’ ones — in MS’s case that’s.docx,.xlsx and.pptx for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, respectively.All you need to do is select Open from the application’s File menu, use the drop-down list to show all file types (or all file types that can be opened) and browse to the file you want. Microsoft Word, for example, can still open files that were created in WordPerfect 6, which was a word processor released in 1997.But not all formats are supported – if someone’s sent you a document in a format you can’t open, ask the sender to save it in a different format via the File - Save as menu option. However, this does risk losing some of the formatting, but the information will still be there – it’s probably best that the original copy isn’t deleted right away.If formatting is important, ask for a PDF file. This will preserve the look and feel of a document at the expense of editability, but you can still copy and paste text into another document for that.You could always do it yourself online too by using online converters such as or by searching the format extension. But be mindful with confidential documents.Things are a bit trickier if you have a file from a productivity application you don’t have access to — such as a Word document and no Word application, either to open it or re-save it. The solution is still simple, though — download.

Libre Office is a free and fully functional office suite that’s more than a match for Microsoft Office, and it can open (and save in) Office file formats.If you don’t want to install a free office suite just to open a file, then for Microsoft Office documents at least, there is another option. Microsoft offers a number of file viewers for free download, which means you can open and view a file, but not edit it — although you can still copy text and paste it elsewhere.

These include: Word Viewer, Excel Viewer and PowerPoint Viewer 2007.If you're using Windows 10, you can download Microsoft's Office Online, which is free to use via a browser. For the full experience you’ll have to pay out for an.ImagesIt’s rare to encounter an image format that can’t be opened, since the world has long since settled on a handful of standards for sharing images online — JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif) and PNG (.png). There are also a few others used by image editing applications, such as BMP (.bmp), TIFF (.tif) and PCX (.pcx), plus Adobe Photoshop (.psd).There’s a difference between viewing and editing, of course, but if you are sent an image that you can’t open in your image editor of choice, try dragging and dropping it on to your web browser to see if it can make sense of it. Otherwise, the same advice applies as for office documents — ask the sender to supply it in a different format.Otherwise, the web will help for images in esoteric formats that can’t otherwise be viewed. Again, as long as you’re happy to upload it to a web site such as, images in just about any format can be converted into just about anything else.AudioThe world has just about settled on MP3 (.mp3) as the file format for sharing audio, but some other formats are still popular, including AAC (.aac), WAV (.wav) and WMA (.wma). As with images, you’re unlikely to find an audio file that Windows can’t play, but that’s not to say you wouldn’t prefer it in a different format.You can convert audio files between formats with or using an audio editing tool like the excellent (and free).Just remember that converting a compressed audio file in a format like WMA into another compressed audio file format (such as MP3) will worsen the quality, since you’re compressing an already compressed file.VideoOf all file formats likely to cause problems, video must be top of the list. The problem is that a wide variety of video file formats is still in widespread use, but few applications can play all of them.There are countless conversion solutions such as, but the large file sizes typically associated with video can make this a very lengthy process.

How To Open Ico Files

Convert Unsupported Files

Rather than try to convert them all, however, we’ll simply point you at our favourite option —.VLC is a free video player that can play just about any available video file format and it’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s much easier to use than Windows Media Player, too, so is worth downloading even for playing more popular video file formats.What’s more, it has an app for and too, so you can play just about anything on any device of your choosing.Zip or RarIf you’ve been sent a Zip or Rar file, don’t worry if it’s not quite what you expected. These compressors put files into one folder together, making it easier to send.Windows automatically supports Zip – so all you need to do to extract your files is right click and select Extract all.Rar is similar, except you’ll have to download the relevant free to retrieve your files.