F17 Beta Wallpaper touchups

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Alexander,

(I'm cc'ing the design team for reference)

I think so far the F17 wallpaper has been a real hit. We've gotten a lot
of positive comments about it. Thank you so much for doing such a great
job on it.

Matthew Garrett is doing Macbook Air testing of Fedora 17, and he
noticed even though the wallpaper looks great (maybe just a tiny bit of
banding) on most computers, on the Macbook Air it shows strange
stairstep banding. I took a photo of it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/7090541057/

I'm going to try to adjust the image a bit to try to eliminate this
artifact and to dither the banding so the image appears a bit smoother.
Do you have any ideas / suggestions for updating the wallpaper further
for final? I was thinking about playing around with some of the
fireworks effects since I'm going to be poking at it anyway. Let me know
what you think. I'll follow up with a post of what I come up with.

~m

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Alexander,

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> I'm going to try to adjust the image a bit to try to eliminate this
> artifact and to dither the banding so the image appears a bit smoother.

Hehe, I feel silly emailing again so soon. I opened up the latest source
in your Fedora people directory but it doesn't seem to match the latest
wallpaper. Do you have the source for the latest available to post?

This is the latest source I could find:
http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v2/source/

Thanks,
~m

[Elad Alfassa]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > I'm going to try to adjust the image a bit to try to eliminate this
> > artifact and to dither the banding so the image appears a bit smoother.
>
> Hehe, I feel silly emailing again so soon. I opened up the latest source
> in your Fedora people directory but it doesn't seem to match the latest
> wallpaper. Do you have the source for the latest available to post?
>
> This is the latest source I could find:
> http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v2/source/
>
> Thanks,
> ~m
>
> design-team mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

I also got a lot of user feedback myself, everyone loves this wallpaper!
(including myself) great job everyone involved!

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:55 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > I'm going to try to adjust the image a bit to try to eliminate this
> > artifact and to dither the banding so the image appears a bit smoother.
>
> Hehe, I feel silly emailing again so soon. I opened up the latest source
> in your Fedora people directory but it doesn't seem to match the latest
> wallpaper. Do you have the source for the latest available to post?
>
> This is the latest source I could find:
> http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v2/source/

Here's what I came up with for a dithered / non-banding background:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/art/f17/post-beta/

If you can provide the source for v3 then I can put them together.

~m

[Kris Thomsen]

I like the one with more dither most - but can you try to tone it just a
notch down? Where is the fireworks gone? :)

// Kris

Den 18. apr. 2012 18.14 skrev Máirín Duffy :
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:55 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:47 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > > I'm going to try to adjust the image a bit to try to eliminate this
> > > artifact and to dither the banding so the image appears a bit smoother.
> >
> > Hehe, I feel silly emailing again so soon. I opened up the latest source
> > in your Fedora people directory but it doesn't seem to match the latest
> > wallpaper. Do you have the source for the latest available to post?
> >
> > This is the latest source I could find:
> > http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v2/source/
>
> Here's what I came up with for a dithered / non-banding background:
> http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/art/f17/post-beta/
>
> If you can provide the source for v3 then I can put them together.
>
> ~m
>
> design-team mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:17 +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote:
> I like the one with more dither most - but can you try to tone it just
> a notch down? Where is the fireworks gone? :)

I made the more dither one to troubleshoot the issue, it appears to be
partially an issue with one of the video drivers.

The fireworks aren't there because I don't have the sources for them;
see the other posts to the thread :)

~m

[Kris Thomsen]

Den 18. apr. 2012 19.25 skrev Máirín Duffy :
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:17 +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote:
> > I like the one with more dither most - but can you try to tone it just
> > a notch down? Where is the fireworks gone? :)
>
> I made the more dither one to troubleshoot the issue, it appears to be
> partially an issue with one of the video drivers.

I see some banding too and it's really a shame. It's really beautiful :)
> The fireworks aren't there because I don't have the sources for them;
> see the other posts to the thread :)

Yeah, I saw that after I wrote ;)
> ~m
>
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> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

[Kévin Raymond]

> The fireworks aren't there because I don't have the sources for them;
> see the other posts to the thread :)
>
> ~m

What!! I am using a closed source wallpaper?!!!
/me remove this awesome wallpaper right away!

:p

I am keeping an eye on this thread, as I wait the wallpaper to be
final before doing all screenshots for our websites…

[Alexander Smirnov]

Hi Máirín and all!

Oops, I forgot :( to upload source v3 [1]. New version [2] with minimal
changes, I tried to remove this effect.

[1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/
[2] -
http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/F17-fireworks-night-...

Thanks,
Alexander.

[Máirín Duffy]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 01:26 +0400, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> Oops, I forgot :( to upload source v3 [1]. New version [2] with
> minimal changes, I tried to remove this effect.
>
> [1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/
> [2] -
> http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/F17-fireworks-night-...

You rock Alexander, thanks!!!!

[Kévin Raymond]

2012/4/18 Máirín Duffy :
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 01:26 +0400, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> > Oops, I forgot :( to upload source v3 [1]. New version [2] with
> > minimal changes, I tried to remove this effect.
> >
> > [1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/
> > [2] -
> > http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/F17-fireworks-night-...
>
> You rock Alexander, thanks!!!!

+1 here
Having tried [2] on my desktop, I can only say that all clutter have
disappeared! Awesome!

[Sirko Kemter]

Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2012, 23:26:20 schrieb Alexander Smirnov:
> Hi Máirín and all!
>
> Oops, I forgot :( to upload source v3 [1]. New version [2] with minimal
> changes, I tried to remove this effect.
>
> [1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/
> [2] -
> http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/F17-fireworks-night
> -v3-1.png

Aleks u rocks really. The ambassadors want this time a poster template.

They want one version colored sizes A5 to A2 and a b/w version. Alex want you 
to do it or should or someone else do it?

br gnokii
> Thanks,
> Alexander.

[Alexander Smirnov]

2012/4/19 S.Kemter
> Aleks u rocks really. The ambassadors want this time a poster template.
>
> They want one version colored sizes A5 to A2 and a b/w version. Alex want
> you
> to do it or should or someone else do it?

Now, I will continue to work on media artwork. Mid-spring is not very good
:( for my health (I was forced to pause ). Maybe try to make a posters
based on this work, but a little later.

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Alexander & everybody,

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 01:26 +0400, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> Oops, I forgot :( to upload source v3 [1]. New version [2] with
> minimal changes, I tried to remove this effect.
>
> [1] - http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/
> [2] -
> http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora17/Wallpaper/v3/F17-fireworks-night-...

We use grub2 now with Fedora; we had a lot of trouble theming it last
release because of some bugs / missing fonts. Spot and Peter Jones have
been helping me figure out how to theme it, and we think we got the bugs
fixed and figured it out. I'm going to try to build a grub2 theme using
this artwork to test it out and so Fedora 17's grub splash isn't so ugly
as Fedora 16's was.

I was thinking of maybe taking the fireworks out, and having just a
plain sky, so it's like the fireworks went off by the time you get to
the desktop. If anybody has some other ideas let me know; I'm in
#fedora-design on IRC (mizmo).

~m

[Onyeibo Oku]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 10:39 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> I was thinking of maybe taking the fireworks out, and having just a
> plain sky, so it's like the fireworks went off by the time you get to
> the desktop. If anybody has some other ideas let me know; I'm in
> #fedora-design on IRC (mizmo).

+1

onyeibo

[Alexander Smirnov]

2012/4/25 Máirín Duffy
> I was thinking of maybe taking the fireworks out, and having just a
> plain sky, so it's like the fireworks went off by the time you get to
> the desktop.

I like it :)