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Extensions: .ico

An ICO format based on the Freeimage library.

This format supports grayscale, RGB and RGBA images.

The freeimage plugin requires a freeimage binary. If this binary is not available on the system, it can be downloaded by either

• the command line script imageio_download_bin freeimage
• the Python method imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()

Parameters for reading

makealpha : bool

Convert to 32-bit and create an alpha channel from the AND- mask when loading. Default False. Note that this returns wrong results if the image was already RGBA.