Lemmy.zip instance discussion.
For all things relating to Lemmy.zip.
Main instance rules apply, with the additional rules below:
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.
I like this idea, but maybe with the same yellow colour in the icon right now as the background would look nice?
Do you mean like 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!
Or maybe even something like this?
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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.
GIMPy