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Re: 256x256 px icons
On Aug 8 10:42, Warren Young wrote:
> 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.
Oops, that's a quote from Andy.
>
> 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.
That was the idea. It stands out. Every other try to resize and paste
in whatever order resulted in a C which was barely visible on the dark
background. The 32x32 icon is pretty small, so the inner C must stand
out to be visible at all. IMHO. If you have a way to create a C which
is not handdrawn *and* stands out, I would very much like to see it.
Corinna
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