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