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Re: 256x256 px icons
On 6 August 2011 19:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug Â6 19:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug Â6 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. ÂDownscaling 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. ÂFor 24x24 and 16x16 I used the standalone C from my
>> previous icon set as fallback.
>>
>> Now for the setup icon...
>
> Here it is. ÂThe 32x32 icon is the most tricky one and needed some
> convincing to look acceptable. Â24x24 and 16x16 are agains the standalone
> icon.
Nice work on both of them. GTG, as far as I'm concerned.
I'd quite like to have another go at the small icons though, but that
doesn't need to hold up anything. Warren, could you do a version of
the C with a thicker stroke, say twice as thick? (If you think I could
easily do that myself, just say so.)
Andy