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.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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I don't think the zip part will be visible at an icon scale. Ig if it helps, you could try to view the icon at like 5% or less while you're making it
I guess you are right
Oh I forgot to mention that tools like Illustrator and Inkscape are better tools for stuff that needs to be scaled into various sizes (like logos).
If you want a more in depth explanation, Photoshop and Gimp specializes in rasterised images (images made of pixels) whereas Illustrator and Inkscape specializes in vector images (images made of graphs). When you scale up or down a rasterized image, the detail changes along with it because you see bigger or smaller pixels. When you do the same with a vector image, the math stays the same; the quality stays sharp as a result.
Disclaimer: I'm no expert in this field and am only providing this explanation from my personal experience.
Yeah I am a bit infamous in various groups I am involved with for always using tools for stuff they are not meant to be used for. When I get used to a tool and I am like "I can make something with this that is enough for what I need" it often wins over "there is a better tool for this task that I don't know though I would need to spend time learning first"
I might need to take a look at programs for vector images though. Really frustrating when you try to move something around (like the little rectangles I made the zipper of) and they just turn into pixel mush.