I often must create a favicon for a fairly complex image, that when it gets down to 16x16, looks weird or blurry.
I have been trying with one image, reduced with bicubic-sharp in Photoshop and adding varying widths of stroke, making it slightly larger or smaller, to try and make it so the borders line up more with the pixel borders when reduced (it's a logo with 3 curved parallel lines that looks odd when two are mostly crisp and one is a bit blurry).
I wonder if there are any methods or online tools for optimizing this size reduction, sizing and positioning the base image best to maximize the detail that's preserved?