From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4934 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2011 16:43:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 4878 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2011 16:43:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,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; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:42:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 65721 invoked by uid 13447); 8 Aug 2011 16:42:54 -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 ; 8 Aug 2011 16:42:54 -0000 Message-ID: <4E4011FF.30805@etr-usa.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:43:00 -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> <4E3C29DE.7010000@etr-usa.com> <20110806082812.GS21692@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110806174346.GA11601@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110806174346.GA11601@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/msg00088.txt.bz2 On 8/6/2011 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Makes sense. If the outline needs to be any brighter, it would need to >> be thickened before scaling down. One way to do this without involving me: - enlarge the canvas to make room - right click stroke layer, alpha to selection - select > grow - fill selection with stroke color It doesn't affect the outer glow, but from what you've written, Corinna, that won't matter. You only need to thicken the stroke for the smaller sizes before downsampling. > 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. Try compositing the C with the terminal before downsampling. This will allow the C to blend into the background. The smaller C-in-terminal icons in this current version clearly have their borders hand redrawn pixel by pixel. That look is fine when the whole icon is hand-drawn, but it stands out when most of it is antialiased. Thickening the stroke should avoid the need to redraw the border to make it bright and solid enough. You might need to double its thickness, or more. Overall, a minor nit. This is the right path.