Quote - I wanted to make a logo... and Icon in fact.

Those are 32 by 32... aren't they?

Only I just tried reducing it to 32 (by 13 as it turned out) - but it's too fuzzy at that reduction...

How do people reduce images for icons yet they still look right, i.e. not fuzzy?  Or do you need some special program to make an icon?

If you're talking about a Windows Icon, I usually use a free program called Icon Sushi to convert PNG's to icons, which works pretty well. Windows icon files can come in a variety of sizes, although older versions of Windows were limited to either 16x16 or 32x32 (or both; the file format spec allows for more than one of the same image at different resolutions in the same file).

When I make icons, I usually try to make a very simple image, and make it small to begin with, so I have some idea of how it's going to look when it's reduced. Most of the time, I have to hand paint over what I end up with, to make it more legibile. I think a lot of icon makers do their icons by hand. rather than using a larger picture.

I get a lot of icons I use for work from Icon Archive; I don't know if it would help, but you could look to see what kinds of icons they have there, and maybe that would give you some ideas for laying out your own icon.