Hi!
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
~m
On 08/06/2009 04:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
I like *a lot* what you did there! But far my faves are wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo and wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo, hard to decide which one of them. At the same time, I don't really care about the GIMP transformation, so I would forget about that.
However, I would change the perspective a bit, to make it less straight and symmetric, something like http://nicubunu.ro/temp/wallpaper-mosaico6_mo_nicu.svg (but of course, with the colors and edge effects from mosaico6b_mo and or mosaico6c_mo)
On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:35:50 Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 08/06/2009 04:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
I like *a lot* what you did there! But far my faves are wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo and wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo, hard to decide which one of them. At the same time, I don't really care about the GIMP transformation, so I would forget about that.
Indeed, I like it a lot too so +1 for wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo, 6c_mo I think is too much blurry.
However, I would change the perspective a bit, to make it less straight and symmetric, something like http://nicubunu.ro/temp/wallpaper-mosaico6_mo_nicu.svg (but of course, with the colors and edge effects from mosaico6b_mo and or mosaico6c_mo)
Maybe some change of perspective should work but not as much as in your mockup, it steals my focus to the top right corner (I'm looking for cookie there? :D)
Jaroslav
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:35:50 Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 08/06/2009 04:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
I like *a lot* what you did there! But far my faves are wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo and wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo, hard to decide which one of them. At the same time, I don't really care about the GIMP transformation, so I would forget about that.
Indeed, I like it a lot too so +1 for wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo, 6c_mo I think is too much blurry.
I like the concept behind 6c the most, but I agree it's too much blurry. Best looking are IMHO 6b and 6. I'd also suggest deviating from the tiled style.
I'm also not fan of the gimp modifications.
Maybe some change of perspective should work but not as much as in your mockup, it steals my focus to the top right corner (I'm looking for cookie there? :D)
+1
Martin
On 06/08/09 08:50, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:35:50 Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 08/06/2009 04:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
I like *a lot* what you did there! But far my faves are wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo and wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo, hard to decide which one of them. At the same time, I don't really care about the GIMP transformation, so I would forget about that.
Indeed, I like it a lot too so +1 for wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo, 6c_mo I think is too much blurry.
I like the concept behind 6c the most, but I agree it's too much blurry. Best looking are IMHO 6b and 6. I'd also suggest deviating from the tiled style.
I like 6c the best too, I dont think the overblurrynes is a problem, but reather that some dark blue tiles have a sharp edge sitting on blurry backgrounds. That confuses my eyesso to how far they are. I think just making the dark blue tiles as blurry would fix that. Also notice in the very upper right corner there is tatica's email.
I think this proposal is very simple since the original file, is in the idea and concept, but is very simple wallpaper for the distribution. Not that "simple" can not be stylish but since it was chosen, I think there are better proposals. Beyond that, even with the modifications of Mo is still vibrate the desktop icons.
2009/8/6 Charlie Brej fedora-art@brej.org:
On 06/08/09 08:50, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:35:50 Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 08/06/2009 04:40 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
I like *a lot* what you did there! But far my faves are wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo and wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo, hard to decide which one of them. At the same time, I don't really care about the GIMP transformation, so I would forget about that.
Indeed, I like it a lot too so +1 for wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo, 6c_mo I think is too much blurry.
I like the concept behind 6c the most, but I agree it's too much blurry. Best looking are IMHO 6b and 6. I'd also suggest deviating from the tiled style.
I like 6c the best too, I dont think the overblurrynes is a problem, but reather that some dark blue tiles have a sharp edge sitting on blurry backgrounds. That confuses my eyesso to how far they are. I think just making the dark blue tiles as blurry would fix that. Also notice in the very upper right corner there is tatica's email. _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
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On 08/05/2009 06:40 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi!
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
~m
gimp1 - highly satured blue. might be not good for some people with very sensible eye. give some energy gimp2 - low satured blue. Very subtle and not too too distracting for the eyes which is good enough for working on screen wallpaper-mosaico6a_mo - interesting concave effect. give some tactile feeling wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo - feel flat overall although the bright tile is sightly bumpy. it has potential. wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo - the least impressive of wallpaper by far. mixing bright outline with darker tiles looks odd. might change them for darker outline to give more bumpy effects. wallpaper-mosaico6_mo - better than gimp1
wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo is my favorite following by wallpaper-mosaico6_mo. It would be nice if there is a mirrored wallpaper for people (particularly arabic speaking people who likes placing icons on right.
Regards,
- -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@fedoraproject.org W: http://www.thefinalzone.net
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:46:31AM -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
On 08/05/2009 06:40 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi!
As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20mosaic/
The source SVG is in the directory as well. The two gimp ones I just poked around at in the gimp, I didn't do too much with them so I didn't bother uploading the source.
~m
gimp1 - highly satured blue. might be not good for some people with very sensible eye. give some energy gimp2 - low satured blue. Very subtle and not too too distracting for the eyes which is good enough for working on screen wallpaper-mosaico6a_mo - interesting concave effect. give some tactile feeling wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo - feel flat overall although the bright tile is sightly bumpy. it has potential. wallpaper-mosaico6c_mo - the least impressive of wallpaper by far. mixing bright outline with darker tiles looks odd. might change them for darker outline to give more bumpy effects. wallpaper-mosaico6_mo - better than gimp1
wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo is my favorite following by wallpaper-mosaico6_mo. It would be nice if there is a mirrored wallpaper for people (particularly arabic speaking people who likes placing icons on right.
Luya, you already stated the same things I would have said. The only thing I would add is that, to accommodate people with icons on the right, perhaps the brighter area could be constrained more to the middle of the background. That way both the left and right hand sides are darker.
I have icons all over my desktop right now (busy week) and this background is a big improvement at allowing me to focus on the objects on my desktop, as opposed to the picture itself.
Hi!
María's mosaico designs (cool idea) +1. Mo variant ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12_mosaic/wallpaper-mosaico6b_mo.png) +1. (Nicu's perspective very good too. ;) )
Thanks.
Alexander.
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