How To Make A FAVICON

Chapter 1: Creating The Icon

• You may if you wish create versions of the graphic at other pixel sizes too, but for the purposes of a FAVICON, there is really no point. This is because (as far as I am aware), all browsers in common use only use the 16 by 16 pixel version of the graphic.
  
  
• If you were to create a Microsoft Windows Icon file containing only other sizes of the graphic (other than 16 by 16 pixels), in theory the user's browser should scale one of these to 16 by 16 pixels. However, I do not recommend doing this (if you can possibly avoid it), as scaling at such small sizes can sometimess produce odd results.
  
  
• In some editing programs, when you start work, you may be initially given a canvas suitable for creating larger graphics (for example 32 by 32 pixel). Check the instructions for your particular program for how to switch to 16 by 16 pixels.

• IconCool Editor Top Choice
  This is a powerful icon editor (and small web images). It has 21 image filters, including Blur, Sharpen, Emboss, Diffuse, Color Balance and more. It has also 13 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Wave, Noise, Hook, Arbitrary Rotation and more. You can change the color depth of images easily. It also has a smart image capturing tool with which you can capture various size image from desktop or any other software by striking the Ctrl key, even if the main window of the editor is minimized.
  
  
• IconCool Top Choice
  IconCool is powerful tool to manage, extract, convert, modify, search and create icons. An icon library with dozens of samples is included. You can search the icons in the library by keyword, and add or edit the keyword of any icon. You can save icons in a variety of formats including ICO CUR GIF JPEG BMP and PNG. And you can also convert image files to icons.
  
  
• GetIcons
  This program grabs icons from .EXE and .DLL files. You can save the icons into BMP, ICO or other file formats.
  
  
• ImageIcon
  Converts BMP and GIF images to icons.