Comments on: New community icon

By: hilker

hilker — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:11:56 +0000

Replying to my own message, here’s the same image with a black background.

By: megazone

megazone — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:26:40 +0000

Nice work, thanks – it is the default now.

By: hilker

hilker — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:44:11 +0000

Here’s a png version with full alpha transparency. It’ll look like crap in msie, because Microsoft can’t be bothered to properly support an image format that’s been a w3c Recommendation for more than seven years. But it should be fine in any decent modern graphical browser: Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, etc.

By: megazone

megazone — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:06:47 +0000

I played with the background – making it black it doesn’t look any different from what is there now. The jaggies were the same with the image transparent on black, or with a black background in the image itself. The original .psd from TiVo was for a much larger image so the jaggies are probably from scaling for 100×100 max. It doesn’t look that jagged on my display – a lot less jagged than the old one, and less than the one I tried to create resizing a jpeg and a gif from TiVo’s site. (It helps that the white border on this one is thicker, the other image had a thin line and it looked really bad resized.) If you want to try playing with it, the original is from the press kit on TiVo’s website and it is a .psd (Photoshop) file.

By: buran

buran — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:52:48 +0000

The white border around the edge is very, very jagged. Can you re-create it with the transparency mask set to black? Or, perhaps set it against a 100×100 black background. It’d look better, and the square wouldn’t show up in the community info page and would make it look better overall since the jaggies would go away.