256x256 px icons

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  6 19:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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...

Here it is.  The 32x32 icon is the most tricky one and needed some
convincing to look acceptable.  24x24 and 16x16 are agains the standalone
icon.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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