Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MIX file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert MIX to another file type
The converter easily converts your MIX images to various formats - free and online. No Microsoft PhotoDraw or or other Raster Image software needed.
MIX to JPG
MIX to WAP
MIX to IVB
MIX to 86I
MIX to NLM
MIX to PIC
MIX to SI
MIX to JXR
MIX to MTV
MIX to QRT
MIX to EPS
MIX to RAWE
Convert a file to MIX
To convert other file formats to the "Obsolete Image Format" file type, you need software like Microsoft PhotoDraw or a similar tool.
About MIX files
The .MIX file is predominantly a proprietary raster image format created by Microsoft PhotoDraw and Microsoft Picture It!. These tools were widely used in the late 1990s and early 2000s for consumer photo editing. However, the extension is notoriously fragmented. It is also utilized as an executable modification DLL for the game Warcraft III, a graphical programming project in Mixly, a data archive for Command & Conquer, and a motion mixer file in Autodesk 3ds Max. Opening an old Microsoft .MIX image today is incredibly frustrating. The format relies on the proprietary Microsoft Compound file structure, which is strictly unsupported by modern web browsers, smartphones, and current image editors like Adobe Photoshop. The original software is obsolete and requires a virtual machine running a legacy version of Windows. Relying on this format traps your personal photos and graphics in a digital graveyard. To recover and share your files, conversion is the only realistic option. For web usage and fast mobile viewing, convert your .MIX files to JPG or WEBP. If you want to preserve the image data without introducing compression artifacts, convert to PNG. For long-term archiving or printing, choose PDF. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software securely on convert.guru.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your MIX file.
If you want to convert MIX file to OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D, STL or PLY, you can use Microsoft PhotoDraw or similar software from the "Raster Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to MIX, try Microsoft PhotoDraw or another comparable tool in the "Raster Image Storage" category.
The MIX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MIX converter.