#How to make a favicon for free how to#

ThatвЂ™s it as far as the creation of your favicon is concerned. You may get a warning message that says вЂњLarge icons and compression are not supported by all programs.вЂќ Just leave all layers unchecked or you can just ignore this message and export anyway. Choose вЂњSaveвЂќ and вЂњExport AsвЂќ, вЂњMicrosoft Windows iconвЂќ

Now, all you have to do is save the image as a favicon image and you will have a favicon image. This is what your image project should look like when you are done scaling the layers: Layer 32 will have a width and a height of 32px, and so on and so forth until all layers are resized except Layer 256 because it does not need to be resized. In other words, layer 16, will have a width and height of 16px. Now scale each layer so that the width and height match the name of the layer. Rename your Gimp layers according to the picture below so that you will have each layer in the right order вЂ“ 16, 32, 64, 128, 256. It does not matter what size square you create it, you need to resize it to be 256 x 256.Дuplicate this layer, so you have 5 layers of the same image. Favicons, are square images, so this only makes sense that you need to create a square image.

#How to make a favicon for free how to#

And I just donвЂ™t feel like having to learn how to use a whole different program just to do something I already know how to do in another program. Even though I now have access to Adobe Photoshop if I want, I still very rarely use Photoshop because I am so used to using Gimp. And free is all that I could afford at the time. IвЂ™ve been using Gimp for eons because itвЂ™s free and when I first started playing around with graphic design, I was just a kid. Of course, you want to change this, but maybe you donвЂ™t know how.

So, you have a new website, and there is a default favicon showing up on your website.