What icon-making program are you using? Sometimes it's possible to do a lot with brightness controls; the "Curves" control in GIMP has been my friend on many an occasion.
I definitely need to learn how to use a "proper" icon-making program; right now I'm just using Mac OSX's Preview (*shame*). But I did manage to improve things by tinkering with "Exposure."
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:09 pm (UTC). . . oh, right. I'm writing counter-canon.
Nevermind.
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