I had a few images that I wanted to convert into icons to use with my desktop shortcuts, so I Googled a few converters, but didn’t found any good ones, so I continued my search till I came across Bradicon. It is a free online image to icon converter, that will convert your images (supports all major formats) to an ICO file. This icon file can be downloaded and used with shortcuts.

To convert an image to icon, simply press the big “Browse” button, and select the image that you want to convert. Uploading progress will be shown, and once the conversion gets completed, you will see the link to download this file as an ICO.

A very handy online tool that can be used for quick conversions from image to icons.

Bradicon - Image to Icon Converter