Best way to make picons?

[tom1964]

I'm new here and enjoying the site and posts about picons. What size does a picon have to be in pixels? I might have a go at making a few.

 

[jamesyboyjim]

I'm new here and enjoying the site and posts about picons. What size does a picon have to be in pixels? I might have a go at making a few.

I usually go for 100x60

 

[deej01]

photoshop can be used save them as pngs and make sure they are indexed by going to toolbar/image/mode/indexed

 

[sakiblateef]

Anyone explain how to make these picons in Photoshop?

I can use Photoshop but I don't know what settings and effects are applied.