Create quick Ico images for your website with Google's Picasa and Picnik by Elian Evans of http://www.elianevans.com

1. How to create quick
ico images
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2. Step 1 - Find a suitable image
It needs to be simple
It needs to scale small
You can purchase inexpensive icons or
pictures from websites like www.fotolia.
com
Don't steal!

3. Good Examples
When scaled

4. Step 2:
Save to your
desktop
or another
easy to find place

5. Step 3: Go to picasaweb.google.com
(Picasa is where all of your pictures uploaded to Blogger live)

6. Step 4: Click Upload and Find Your File

7. Step 5: Create or Select Album
Choose your destination
Leave Visibility "Public on the web"

8. Step 6: Find your File
Click the Choose photos to upload
Find the picture on your computer and click Open
Then click Ok

9. Step 7: Choose your image
If you have more
than one picture in
your folder you will
have to find it.
Click on it.

10. Step 8: Find and Click the Edit Button

11. This will open a program called picnik

12. Step 9: Crop Square
Click the Crop button on the left
Drag the boxes on your image by clicking on one
round corner dot while making the actual size numbers
equal.

13. Step 10: Move the Crop Area
Hover your cursor over
the newly selected area
and click and drag until
you have just the right
look.
Click Ok
and you should have
something like this:

14. Step 11: Scale Your New Image
Click the resize button
Then change your
dimensions to 32 x 32
And your new image should
look something like:

15. Step 12: Save your New Image
Click Ok
Then click
Save to my
Album
It will ask if
you want to
Replace or
Save a New
Copy (Choose
the latter)

16. Step 13: Get the URL
Now it brings you
back to Picasa
viewing your new
image.
Place your cursor on
the image and right
click.
Select Copy image
URL (it copies to
your clipboard)
Paste this into your
Design/Edit html
page in Blogger

17. More training with Blogger
is available at
www.ElianEvans.com