256x256 px icons

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  6 11:47, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 6 August 2011 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug  5 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. Â I created an icon set from there. Â The fact that
> > everything is layered is cool. Â You can simply change a single aspect of
> > the picture. Â What I did:
> >
> > - In general the dark shadow of the wedge became too dark (IMHO) when
> > Â resizing the image to smaller sizes. Â The wedge looked pretty
> > Â asymmetrically when small. Â So I lightend the shadow quite a bit
> > Â before scaling it down.cd
> >
> > - For the 256x256 icon I darkened the C stroke a bit, for 48x48 and below
> > Â I used an entirely white stroke before scaling down.
> >
> > - For the 256x256 icon I kept the dark outer glow, for the smaller sizes
> > Â 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.

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


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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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