Having problems creating my favicon

[jus2sho]

So I've been trying to create my favicon for a few days now with no luck. I've tried increasing the saturation, sharpness, vibrance, etc. When I go to decrease the image size to 16x16, the original image becomes unrecognizable. The original image is at size 11729x11729. Does anyone have any suggestions to help me out. Thanks!

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3788/favicong.jpg

[X96 Web Design]

Maybe try a simpler version of the image? Or, scale it down 300 pixels at a time, and fix anything wrong along the way, though that may be a bit tedious...

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[jus2sho]

Thanks for the suggestions. I really want this image though.

[thetestingsite]

I just ran that image through the favicon generator on this site and I can still tell what the image is. Here is the ico file produced from the generator.

http://www.thetestingsite.net/images/jus2sho.ico

Hope this helps.

[kaos]

Just to make sure, you are using an icon file (.ico) called favicon.ico, right? And your using a code like this in the HEAD of your html page:


<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.yourdoman.com/images/favicon.ico">

[dillankid]

The one thetestingsite put up is about the best you're going to get. It's tough to get a pretty favicon.