PNGs much like other images like JPG can be used to create icons, or form whole icon packs like the ICNS format for Apple Mac OS X. Your best shot would be to use some of the dedicated icon editing and making software like IconWorkshop.
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Conversion of png file format to icns file format beta
Search for png to icns converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Portable Network Graphic to Apple icon graphic format.
We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .png to .icns file format conversion.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert png to icns on OS X
Preview
Apple Preview is document and graphic viewer that is integral part of Mac OS X operating system. It can view and also export/convert the most common bitmap picture formats.
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from png file | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
to icns file | Yes, Preview supports icns file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned png to icns. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Image2icon
The easiest way to create your own mac icons and customize your folders and files.
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