Replying to help w/ icon making on paint...

when i try to make an icon on paint, it says i cant use a bitmap imagte, but when i convert it to jpg its too big and on gif its to retarded lookin. now some of the icons i have seen that people have made here come out perfect looking..
help?

-Ryan

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