[Design-team] Beta wallpaper revision

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Everyone can imagine how it would look like a shower of sparks without
a lighting effect.
I like the effect of sparks created by mizmo.

2010/9/14 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi Emily,
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 18:50 -0400, Emily Dirsh wrote:
>> I know it's a bit down-to-the-wire, but I (finally! ;)) finished a new
>> revision of the beta wallpaper. It's up on the wiki now here:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F14-wallpaper-remix-em-light-rev1.png
>>
>> I replaced the light spots/lens flare with a light streak/aurora effect.
>>
>> I don't have the source file uploaded just yet - it's huge! - but I'm
>> working on it and I'll post a link on the wiki ASAP.
>
> I think the aurora effect you created is gorgeous, absolutely stunning -
> but it just doesn't seem to fit the wallpaper, like others have noted.
> (I'd love to see us use it for Fedora 15 though!) I've been using your
> latest wallpaper all this weekend and today and it seems the aurora is a
> bit out-of-place and the base wallpaper is a bit too simplistic. (It
> kind of reminds me a bit of the Fedora 9 wallpaper actually; that one
> didn't go over so well :( )
>
> So I poked around a bit with Kyle's original alpha file, adding in some
> bits and bobs from your file (mostly I used the base gradient to recolor
> the image), smoothing & streaking out the lines on the right background,
> and smoothing out where the lines pop out from the center of the object.
> Then I imported it into mypaint and used mypaint's brushes to add some
> electricity-like effects and then exported the effects as transparent
> layers back into gimp.
>
> Do you think this is something we could use for beta? Or is it the wrong
> direction?
>
> (source is: http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Resources/Fedora%
> 20Release%20Themes/F14/Wallpaper/F14-2400x15363.xcf )
>
> ~m
>
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