From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28657 invoked by alias); 5 Aug 2011 18:41:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 28647 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Aug 2011 18:41:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:41:40 +0000 Received: (qmail 30111 invoked by uid 13447); 5 Aug 2011 18:41:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.33.33.107]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2011 18:41:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4E3C3957.9090307@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:41:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons References: <20110801080730.GT26203@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110802152428.GC8652@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110804083911.GE18612@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E3A9C48.7040007@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110804142920.GA2833@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E3C169F.7070005@etr-usa.com> <20110805175055.GQ21692@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110805175055.GQ21692@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00061.txt.bz2 On 8/5/2011 11:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> You could also try moving the gamma slider, either alone, or in >> combination with the above to keep the blacks where you want them. > > I don't understand this. If I do that, the black C and especially the > highlights in the C are getting whiter and chunky, This is due to not having a layered document. The levels move is affecting everything, not just the glow. Lacking a layered document so you can modify the glow in isolation, you're back to needing a good selection to start with. Riffing off the Hue-Saturation tip from the other message, you could take essentially the same path but move the lightness slider in addition to the saturation. Between this and Andy's "select wedge then invert selection" you should get a good result.