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
