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On Aug 6 11:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 6 August 2011 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug Â5 11:35, Warren Young wrote: > >> However, I have made a fully rasterized, layered version compatible > >> with Gimp for those without even Photoshop 6.0: > >> > >> Â Â Â http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled-noshadow-rasterized.xcf > > > > Thank you very much. ÂI created an icon set from there. ÂThe fact that > > everything is layered is cool. ÂYou can simply change a single aspect of > > the picture. ÂWhat I did: > > > > - In general the dark shadow of the wedge became too dark (IMHO) when > > Âresizing the image to smaller sizes. ÂThe wedge looked pretty > > Âasymmetrically when small. ÂSo I lightend the shadow quite a bit > > Âbefore scaling it down.cd > > > > - For the 256x256 icon I darkened the C stroke a bit, for 48x48 and below > > ÂI used an entirely white stroke before scaling down. > > > > - For the 256x256 icon I kept the dark outer glow, for the smaller sizes > > ÂI removed it. > > Makes sense. If the outline needs to be any brighter, it would need to > be thickened before scaling down. > > > The 16x16 icon looks blurry when magnified to 800% in gimp, but I'm > > surprised how good it looks in normal 100%. > > I agree. > > > Is that one ok as default Cygwin icon? > > I think so. > > > I'm going to work on the terminal icon based on Andy's blank-terminal > > icons and this beveled icon next, as well as on a new setup "box" icon. > > Looking forward to those. I seem to be in a minority of one regarding > the logo-in-terminal approach, so I withdraw my objection to that. The terminal icon is attached to this mail. Downscaling the C to 18x18 and pasting it into the 32x32 terminal outline was a waste of time. For 32x32 I now created a C pixel by pixel so that it looks good on the XP desktop. For 24x24 and 16x16 I used the standalone C from my previous icon set as fallback. Now for the setup icon... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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