How to quickly create a beautiful favicon for a website in ico format

Good day, dear readers. Sometimes, the smallest thing can make the difference. Today we’ll talk about such almost imperceptible gizmos that bring significant benefits to the site.

In this article, you will learn why favicons are needed, where to find them, and how to make an icon in ico format simply and quickly.

An invisible element that is deposited in the subconscious of everyone

The favicon is a small picture. In Yandex, it appears next to the name of the portal already in the search, and is also displayed in the browser as soon as you open the resource.

You must have paid attention to them. That is what they are used for. Icons contribute to the memorization of a particular resource, because visual information is absorbed much faster and penetrates into the subconscious itself. You can see a person once, chat with him for three hours and poke around in memory for a very long time after meeting him a second time. Visual information (face) cuts into memory much deeper than any other.

If you see the icon two or three times, it will be deposited on a subconscious level, you will trust the portal and will be more willing to choose it from the crowd.

If you are looking for information on a specific query and open several tabs, then you will be the first to examine those whose favicons are familiar to you, and most likely close the rest if you are satisfied with the information received from the first sources.

I'll tell you a story about how the icon for the site played a cruel joke on me. I needed to download some book. I saw a familiar favicon, I also saw the design not for the first time. Great, I've been here before! Clicked on the download almost without thinking. I didn’t have time to save it, as the antivirus program squealed with a wild cry, and the computer could no longer be saved, I had to reinstall the system. Only at that moment I remembered how I know this site and remember it well. Exactly the same situation happened about a year ago, on the same resource.

How to create a favicon in just 2 minutes

The icon for your site can be in png or ico format, 16 x 16 pixels in size.

You can use the converter and create a favicon from any picture. For example, here https://www.icoconverter.com/ . Select a file.

Here, for example, I have already prepared a drawing. It is best to choose the png format, then the edges will be transparent.

We choose 16 pixels. Some prefer images in 8 bits (Bit depth indicator). Then the image will load faster. It seems to me that this is no longer relevant. Use beautiful and high-quality things. It will be much more useful.

So, it would seem, everything. However, I'm getting an error. The fact is that the image size exceeds the permissible norms. The image must be no larger than 3 MB.

You can compress and or Paint, but I'll show you another option. If you downloaded the image on Google, then find it again, and then run "Search by Image".

Now select "Small".

Download the same photo, but smaller.

Let's convert again.

Where to look for ready-made icons

An easier and more honest way to get an icon download it from an online service https://www.iconsearch.ru/ . The use of these pictures is permitted by the administration and is not prosecuted by law. . Enter any name in the search box and you're done.

Find an image in png and ico format, download and install on the site.

But what if you want to create with your own hands? There is nothing difficult in this.

Creative work for professionals and eager to become specialists

Any business is good. It's cool if you are drawn to new knowledge and are ready to do all sorts of small things to develop your abilities. If you have a desire to come up with something interesting for the portal yourself, then you will need a free service: https://favicon.ru/ .

Choose a color.

We draw in the field proposed for this.

At the same time, keep track of the results. Then download and you're done.

Perhaps you will be inspired by the use of ready-made drawings. Select a file from your computer.

And your picture will turn into an 8-bit favicon. Use transparency to get rid of the background.

This is the result you will get. I don't know about you, but frankly, I don't particularly like it.

I would love to use photoshop for this work (). I would create an icon, save it as a png, and then convert it with https://www.icoconverter.com . Yes, there is much more work, but the result will be more interesting and beautiful. Although, you choose.

Check out this video where this guy creates an amazing icon in just over 9 minutes.

If you liked this video and want to study Photoshop in more depth, then I will recommend Zinaida Lukyanenko's course ( Photoshop from scratch in VIP 3.0 video format ). In just a few weeks, you will master all the skills that are needed to work with this program.

I will not tire of repeating that the technical side is not such a problem. It is important to hone your skills, learn how to create cool projects that work. And this can only be done in practice. After you get all the basic knowledge regarding technology.

The next step is experience and practice. At first, one image takes several hours, and over time it becomes obvious to you what colors are combined, techniques that are better to apply in a particular case. There is nothing better than watching professional designers work. It's really amazing.

Do not waste time on meaningless comprehension, develop your own talent. You should not be like a lumberjack from a fairy tale, who until the end of his life tried to find the fastest way to work with an ax, but lived to old age and did not cut down a single tree. He devoted all his time to conversations, reasoning, books and other searches for an answer to a question that worried him. By the end of his life, he no longer had the strength left to check whether the best option works - just do it.

Do everything in a timely manner. Very soon you will definitely understand how you can work easier, faster and in the best way. At this stage, complete the tasks, at least somehow, and you will definitely be able to reach the end with an incredible amount of knowledge.

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