If you're doing your own icon, one thing to remember is not to shrink the picture down to final size all at once. The way I learned it, you shrink it down in jumps of no more than 50% at a time and sharpen it between steps. The final result looks a lot better than letting the software decide what details to throw away in the transition.
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Date: 2006-03-19 02:46 pm (UTC)