View PICT files in your browser
The picture format of the classic Mac, from the first Macintosh to Mac OS 9's clipboard. Open a PICT right here and keep it as PNG. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens at actual size, or shrunk to fit your screen.
- Actual size, or shrunk to fit
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Fullscreen
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About PICT
Apple made PICT for the first Macintosh in 1984 as QuickDraw's own record of a drawing, and until Mac OS X every Mac app copied, pasted and saved pictures through it: clip art, screenshots, scans and the art of HyperCard stacks and CD-ROMs.
A PICT file is 512 bytes its app could use as it liked, then the picture's size and frame and QuickDraw's opcodes one after another: lines, rectangles, ovals, arcs, polygons and regions in their patterns and colors, text in its font, and bitmaps and pixmaps packed with PackBits. QuickTime later put JPEGs and its other codecs inside.
Filepeek draws it in your browser opcode by opcode, as QuickDraw would, its pixmaps in their own colors and the JPEGs and PNGs inside decoded, and Export saves it as PNG or JPEG.
QuickDraw picture
.pict • .pct
Format
- MIME type
- image/x-pict
- Made by
- Apple
- Released
- 1984
Inside the file
- Drawn as
- QuickDraw's opcodes
- Pixels
- Bitmaps and pixmaps, 1 to 32 bits
- Packing
- PackBits, or QuickTime's codecs
- Versions
- 1 and 2
Opens in every browser
Filepeek draws PICT in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. No browser shows it by itself, and neither does a Mac's Preview any longer.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open PICT
- WindowsIrfanView, XnView and GIMP
- MacGraphicConverter • Preview stopped opening it in Catalina
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I open a PICT file on a new Mac?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a PICT. Preview stopped opening PICT files in macOS Catalina, and Filepeek draws them in your browser, on a Mac or anywhere else.
How do I convert PICT to PNG or JPEG?
Open it, then choose Export and Save as PNG or Save as JPEG.
Why is part of my PICT blank?
QuickTime could pack a picture inside a PICT with any of its codecs. Filepeek draws those packed as JPEG, PNG or GIF, and Show details counts any it couldn't draw.