From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29803 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2011 15:57:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 29763 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Aug 2011 15:57:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:57:01 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D53752CCC1E; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:57:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons Message-ID: <20110815155658.GA29857@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20110809072534.GS11601@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E4245B4.3020107@etr-usa.com> <20110810100725.GA6563@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110810102335.GD6563@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E428F62.4090001@etr-usa.com> <20110811103856.GC24478@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E44444A.2080700@etr-usa.com> <20110812065957.GH16226@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110812091232.GA7658@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E492E3B.8060607@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E492E3B.8060607@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 On Aug 15 08:33, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/12/2011 3:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >Turns out, 256 is too big for the splash screen. Looking for a nice > >size, I found that 1064, the size of the rasterized original icon, > >dived by 7 is 152, which looks like the ideal size for the dialog icon. > >So I added a 152x152 icon to cygwin.ico, and made it the first icon > >in the set. Here's the result: > > > >http://cygwin.de/cygwin-standalone-beveled.ico > > > >Two examples: > > > >Classic Windows style: http://cygwin.de/splash-new-1.png > >Windows 7 non-Aero style: http://cygwin.de/splash-new-2.png > > Mostly delicious, Corinna. > > The hard edges in the original art are causing stair-stepping when > doing a direct downsample, though. (Look at the pointy bits.) By > blurring the high-res version and then downsampling by a > non-integral amount, you can get a much smoother result. Here's one > at 128 px^2: > > http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/128-smooth.png > > If you're really set on 152 px^2, here's that, too: > > http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/152-smooth.png > > If you want yet a different size, the procedure is: > > - merge all layers (don't flatten; keep transparency) > - Gaussian blur, 2 px > - bilinear resize Thanks for the tip. I checked in a new 152x152 icon with lightgrey stroke which I blurred before. I resized using the cubic interpolation because I forgot to set it to linear (no "bilinear" in gimp), but it looks good to me. If you want to have a look, I uploaded it to http://cygwin.de/cygwin-standalone-beveled.ico again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat