TIFF to ICO Converter - Convert TIF to ICO Online Free

How to convert TIFF to ICO

Add your TIFF files. Drop up to 30 TIFF or TIF images into the box, or browse for them. They are decoded on your device and never uploaded.
Pick the page. A multi-page TIFF shows every page under the preview. Page 1 is ticked - pick another, or several for one icon each.
Choose sizes and look. Recommended packs 16 to 256 px into one ICO. Crop to square, add padding, a round shape or a background colour.
Make the ICO and download. Press Make my ICO. One or two icons download directly, more come as a ZIP.

Just need to look inside a TIFF first? The TIFF File Viewer shows every page.

Why turn a TIFF into an ICO?

TIFF is the format of scanners, print shops and design archives - but Windows cannot use it as an icon.

An ICO packs the same picture at several sizes, so a logo from a TIFF looks sharp on the desktop, the taskbar and in Explorer.

Every kind of TIFF

Multi-page files - every page shows as a thumbnail, page 1 is ticked.
Compression - LZW, ZIP (Deflate), JPEG, PackBits, CCITT fax and uncompressed.
Colour - RGB, greyscale, palette and CMYK. 16-bit files are saved with 8 bits per channel, all an icon can hold.
Transparency - an alpha channel is kept in every icon size.

Need a normal image instead? TIFF to PNG keeps transparency and DPI.

Which icon sizes do you need?

Size	Where it shows up	Preset
16 x 16	Browser tabs, Explorer details view, title bars	All presets
32 x 32	Desktop at 100%, taskbar, bookmarks	All presets
48 x 48	Explorer medium icons, Windows site tiles	All presets
20, 24, 40	Windows at 125% and 150% display scaling	Windows app
64 / 128	Large icons and high-DPI screens	Recommended
256 x 256	Extra large icons, Windows 10 and 11 Start	Recommended, Windows app

Not sure? Keep Recommended. The How it looks small panel shows the 16 and 32 px sizes before you download.

Tips for great icons

Scans and photos rarely make good small icons. Crop to square on the main subject, or cut it out first with the Image Cropper.
White box around a logo? Pick Solid colour to match your background, or start from a transparent PNG in the PNG to ICO converter.
Need a different size later? The Icon Resizer adds or removes sizes in an existing ICO.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop your TIFF into the box, keep the Recommended sizes or pick a preset, and press Make my ICO.

The icon downloads right away, with every size packed inside one .ico file.

No. The TIFF is decoded and turned into an ICO in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so it also works for private scans.

Every page is shown under the preview and page 1 is ticked. Tick other pages to get one ICO per page - they download together as a ZIP.

Yes. .tif and .tiff are the same format with two spellings of the extension. Both work here.

Yes. A TIFF with an alpha channel stays transparent in every icon size.

A few rare compressions, like JPEG 2000 inside TIFF, cannot be decoded in a browser. Re-save it as an LZW or uncompressed TIFF and try again.

Yes. Pick the Website pack preset - you get favicon.ico, PNG sizes, apple-touch-icon, a manifest and the HTML to paste.

Yes. Layers below 256 px are 32-bit bitmaps with a mask and the 256 px layer is a 32-bit PNG - the layout Windows Explorer expects.