Favicon Generator: favicons made easy

Have you ever seen a site with a really awesome favicon — that tiny icon that shows up in bookmarks and address bars — and wondered how to get one yourself? Favicon Generator makes it totally simple, with two different ways to get exactly the icon you want. You can upload any image, or make your own with a pixel-level editor. Then Favicon Generator does the rest, and gives you a .ico file that you can use with your site.

Generator mode is where you can upload your gifs, jpgs and pngs to be converted. The Generator will resize them to the standard 16×16 pixel favicon size for you, but you can easily get a full-sized .ico instead by clicking a checkbox. In Editor mode, you draw your own icon on an oversized 16×16 grid, using any web colors you like. There’s no option to enlarge the grid, so this is no solution for serious pixel-art projects. When it comes to favicons, though, it’s the perfect tool for the task.

Dr. Pic: A no-Flash online image editor

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There are plenty of web-based image editors out there. And while I love me some Picnik, Fotoflexer, or Splashup action, there’s one thing that Dr. Pic can do that none of the other online image editors do: Operate on a computer that doesn’t have Flash installed.

That’s because Dr. Pic is built using nothing but AJAX. While you probably won’t have much luck using the service with Internet Explorer 5, any modern web browser should be able to handle the basic image editing tools Dr. Pic provides. You can resize or crop images and add a handful of effects. For example you can blur, sharpen, or add text to an image.

You can export the result as a JPG, BMP, GIF, or PNG file.