On Aug  5 16:05, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 4 August 2011 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug  4 09:19, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >> On 8/4/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > Sure!  I would be more happy with the fatbuttlarry icon if it would
> >> > be available in a nice 256x256 variation, though.  That's really a
> >> > big plus of Warren's version.
> >>
> >> Here (well, it's 237x258 but that's nothing that can't be fixed with
> >> little GIMP).
> >
> > Nice, thank you.
> 
> Ditto. Where did you find that? There isn't a vector version of this, is there?
> 
> I'm asking because that would allow to remove the shadow under the C
> without impacting the edge of the C which has a bit of a fade-out on
> it.  I realised that I'd used the 24bpp version of cygicons-0.dll,9,
> which doesn't have the shadow, but only because it doesn't have an
> alpha channel.
> 
> > Do you know how to convert the green glow around
> > the C to grey, by any chance?
> 
> Here's what I did, in Paint.net. I very much suspect there are better ways.
> 
> - Select the green arrow with the rectangular select tool.
> - Invert the selection, thereby selecting everything but the green arrow.
> - Go to Adjustments->Hue/Saturation: Turn the hue to -60 (yellow) and
> the saturation to 200 (maximum). OK.
> - Adjustments->Black and White.
> 
> (The point of turning it bright yellow before the Black and White step
> is to make the resulting grey as light as possible.)

Works extremly well in gimp.  Thanks for the hint!

I attached my result.


Corinna

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