256x256 px icons

[Andy Koppe]

On 6 August 2011 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  5 11:35, Warren Young wrote:
>> On 8/3/2011 11:49 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> >
>> >Warren's has the advantage of a 256 version and that it's more
>> >tweakable assuming he provides the vector version it's presumably
>> >based on.
>>
>> Sorry, there is currently no vector version.  Effects like bevels
>> and shadows are raster effects.  However, based on this:
>>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SVG_filter_effects
>>
>> it does look like SVG's been extended with the raster effects needed
>> to recreate my beveled icon.  I am installing Inkscape now and will
>> try to do that later, perhaps today, perhaps not.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, here's my new beveled Cygwin logo:
>>
>>       http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled-noshadow.psd
>>
>> Changes from the original:
>>
>>       - removed the big drop shadow (outer glow still present)
>>       - softened lighting on the wedge
>>       - dropped outer C stroke from white to a light gray
>>       - rebuilt as 1024 px square, not counting the outer glow,
>>           for finer editing control
>>
>> This should open in any version of Photoshop going back to the 90s.
>> (v6 and up, I'm guessing.)  While I realize not everyone will have
>> even that, I'm providing it because it's based on easy-to-edit
>> procedural effects, rather than flattened raster effects.
>>
>> However, I have made a fully rasterized, layered version compatible
>> with Gimp for those without even Photoshop 6.0:
>>
>>       http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled-noshadow-rasterized.xcf
>
> Thank you very much.  I created an icon set from there.  The fact that
> everything is layered is cool.  You can simply change a single aspect of
> the picture.  What I did:
>
> - In general the dark shadow of the wedge became too dark (IMHO) when
>  resizing the image to smaller sizes.  The wedge looked pretty
>  asymmetrically when small.  So I lightend the shadow quite a bit
>  before scaling it down.cd
>
> - For the 256x256 icon I darkened the C stroke a bit, for 48x48 and below
>  I used an entirely white stroke before scaling down.
>
> - For the 256x256 icon I kept the dark outer glow, for the smaller sizes
>  I 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.

Andy