I'd love to propose something like aboves picture as new instance icon - to make it more "lemmy-like" Maybe not my exact picture, which I put quickly together in photoshop, but maybe someone could smooth it out or make something similar to this.
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Hey, I quite like this one - happy for me to trial it out for a bit?
Of course :) Like I said its a bit rough but maybe that's not even visible at that size.
I know nothing about photoshop etc, literally not a clue so sorry in advance for these possibly stupid questions :)
I think the ears get cut off at the tips so the image needs shrinking a touch. Also yeah I can see when you say it's bit rough when I zoom in, compared to the normally Lemmy icon. What would need to happen to bring the resolution up? I think this image goes on the join lemmy website too so will need to be at their quality maybe?
I litterally left reddit and joined Lemmy today, so I don't know if I'm doing this right, but anyway.
I liked OP's design, and i have a little bit of experience with illustrator (or in my case, affinity designer) so i made a high res version of OP's original, and also some other versions with some changes which might help.
Sorry OP, I cant remember how to do patterned strokes so the zip is a little off, but i tried to be as close to yours as I could.
Icon is up - i've used the bottom one, might try changing them out
Oh good, is that why the server went down? I was worried I crashed it by uploading 3 images. Again, very new to lemmy and the fediverse.
Anyway, thanks for using my icon! If you need any changes I can have a look at it again tomorrow.
Server went down due to a database bug, thankfully it should be fixed in the next release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3175
Every 3 or 4 hours the database is locking up, causing CPU usage on the server to jump to 100% and then everything stops working. I think the process causing this gets killed by the host platform which allows the site to come back online again, but can take up to 5 minutes. Frustratingly there isnt much I can do about it other than wait it our for the devs to fix it :(
Let me know what you think now the icon is up - once join-lemmy has updated too we should be able to see it there.
Thanks to you and obviously to @[email protected] for designing this!
If anyone fancies a stab at a banner image they're more than welcome 🤣
I might have something there, which I built for myself years ago when I wanted to start a gaming youtube channel (still want to do it, but it's always "next big game release I start" lmao)
And I am quite proud of this one, might well for a gaming focused instance:
either this one
or this one
I have the psd (photoshop files) for these here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yBxVpure_bwY32FwnCyDuZa6ynxgoCJ1?usp=sharing so one could rather easily replace a game with another (or whatever you want to have shown on the puzzle tiles)
Hey that’s really cool
Thanks :) I like how much you can do with it. For example I made a version for my profile with the Lemmy.zip logo and the communities I moderate:
Man those ones are awesome!
Second one is my favorite, it comes closest to my idea that the left eye is the zipper thingy.
Cheers! And same to you, I like the design.
I’m not really that creative, just good at making high res stuff since it used to be my job
Could you make a version of the second one with the ears and the whiskers behind the head?
Here you go, a version of your original with fixed ears and whiskers:
And @[email protected], here's a fixed version of the one that is up at the moment, I'm not used to the actual Lemmy logo yet so I didn't notice it was off haha
Thats great, I've updated it thank you :)
Awesome, thank you!
Oh yeah, I didn’t even notice that they moved to the front, whoops.
I’ll have a look
The problem is that I am really bad at "graphics design" lol. I doubt that Photoshop is really meant to make stuff like this. Someone would probably have to recreate for it to look good. I tried my best to do it in Photoshop but it is still meh:
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I definitely started to small with the image, that's why it's so blurry. Anyway, last "improvement":
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These both look great, in my opinion. Hopefully the admins agree. I'd love to see this as the instance icon.
For whatever it's worth, I think it looks cool!
Thank you!