Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Mola pahnadayan
Hi all, I work on greek-concept and you can see my ouyput here : http://mola.fedorapeople.org/gimp/view/ total 15 pictures ( 13 picture is new work ) Mola ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Samuele Storari
/ Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper? Hi all, I work on greek-concept and you can see my ouyput here : http://mola.fedorapeople.org/gimp/view/ total 15 pictures ( 13 picture is new work ) Mola ___ Fedora-art-list mailing

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Samuele Storari wrote: I've uploaded a new proposal for the Greek theme on the wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Leonidas_sstorari_mo1_1920x1200.png The Ideas behind this mockup are: 1) a connection between past (helmet, Shield Spear) and a connection with our time or the future

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Mola! - Original Message From: Mola pahnadayan mola...@gmail.com I work on greek-concept and you can see my ouyput here : http://mola.fedorapeople.org/gimp/view/ These are fabulous! I have only one concern - do you have references for the new photo sources you pulled in? (Eg

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi a bit late perhaps but I thought of something that may make an interesting background - since you mentioned photographic landscape. I saw an article on tilt-shift photography, where special lenses are used to modify perspective and depth-of-field giving an uncanny model photography effect.

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Hisham Abdel-Magid wrote: hello all ^_^ i have a small Q ... why the use of 4070 x 1267 resolution? (i hope this is not a square zero type of Qs). It looks like that exact size is arbitrary, but the intention is to have an image for a dual wide screen (the most extreme case, everything

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Hisham Abdel-Magid
i c ^_^ thnx Nicu ~hish On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.rowrote: Hisham Abdel-Magid wrote: hello all ^_^ i have a small Q ... why the use of 4070 x 1267 resolution? (i hope this is not a square zero type of Qs). It looks like that exact size is

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Do you have any ideas on how we can integrate Greek columns into it? I think you were on the right track when originally requesting either the top or bottom of the pillar. If we have the columns like in the mockup, starting from outside of the image and ending also

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Michael Beckwith wrote: I think it'd be cool, at the details stage, if we could perhaps have some light cast in between some of the columns, and perhaps change the angle as time goes by. Unfortunately, we are in GIMP, doing 2D raster operations... what you say would be relatively easy to

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Nicu, - Original Message From: Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro That could work. We would have to take care about the mist: the hills are blurry due to the distance, so we will have to apply some blur to the temple too. I did two more. I took out the large framing

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I did two more. I took out the large framing column because neither the top or bottom was in great shape. I might spend some time fixing up the bottom of the column and add it back though. Instead I swapped in a temple image I've been working with:

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
- Original Message From: Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/8/8d/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup4_mo.png Whoops, hit enter before I was done, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup5_mo.png ~m

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:12:43AM -0800, Máirín Duffy wrote: - Original Message From: Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/8/8d/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup4_mo.png Whoops, hit enter before I was done,

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper? AND a short hello to everyone!

2009-02-26 Thread Justus
Hey, i just searched through my photos and found some pieces of work that could be useful. Most of them are those dramatic skies you were looking for. License.txt -file is also packed in, for further questions or so just mail me. You can find the file on my webspace - ca. 19 MB compressed folder.

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Nicu! - Original Message From: Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro I am not that happy on the columns positioning and with them going all the screen, from top to bottom. Do you have any ideas on how we can integrate Greek columns into it? Maybe have some temple in the

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Beckwith
� wrote: Hey Nicu! - Original Message From: Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro I am not that happy on the columns positioning and with them going all the screen, from top to bottom. Do you have any ideas on how we can integrate Greek columns into it? Maybe

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:54:20AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: BTW, how did you generate your gallery? It looks great. I used a less known gem: gThumb and Create Index Image (under it's Tools menu) and tweaked a bit the parameters (background color, font face and

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Máirín Duffy
https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/0/00/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup3_mo.png XCF: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/c3/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup23_mo.xcf (warning, ~70MB) It's a very quick/sloppy copy/paste job. I healed the columns a little bit so they look less crumbled

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com So what do *you* think? I think that this *is* the idea for F11 artwork. (PS I think Brian's latest blue starfield for the night version would work well for this) I agree with using of Brian's starfiled in a night version. I've in my

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Paolo, I agree with using of Brian's starfiled in a night version. I've in my mind four version of the background: morning/sunrise, day, afternoon/sunset, night. Day version with the Sun and night version with the Moon. It could be possible to realize? That sounds great! I'm going

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com So what do *you* think? I think that this *is* the idea for F11 artwork. (PS I think Brian's latest blue starfield for the night version would work well for this) I think that this *is* the idea for F11 artwork. I agree with using of

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com I have some Gimp moon brushes I made with public domain NASA art here http://pookstar.deviantart.com/art/Moon-Brushes-99087754 These moons are greats! I've made a draft for the night version:

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: It's a very quick/sloppy copy/paste job. I healed the columns a little bit so they look less crumbled than in Bob's original photo, but could push it more if we decide this is a good direction to go. (Same with the mountain/clouds/sky boundary and the water.) I am not that

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: So the clock is ticking and we don't have much time to make F11 beta. I would like to try to take the wallpaper base artwork that I put together [1] and add some elements to it to match Luya's sketch [2]. (Although I'm not 100% sure the vase in the composition will work

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Nicu! - Original Message From: Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/f11/ (sorry, I don't have Greek stuff) These are fabulous! I will play with some of these, thanks!!! BTW, how did you generate your gallery? It looks great. ~m

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Bob! - Original Message From: Bob Peterson rpete...@redhat.com To: Fedora Art List fedora-art-list@redhat.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 5:06:27 PM Subject: Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper? - Máirín Duffy wrote: | A) Greek columns, high-res, including either

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: BTW, how did you generate your gallery? It looks great. I used a less known gem: gThumb and Create Index Image (under it's Tools menu) and tweaked a bit the parameters (background color, font face and size). -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro ::

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Peterson
- Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com wrote: | A) Greek columns, high-res, including either the top or bottom of the | pillar, straight-on / dead-on perspective, no angles. Will this work? I took this. http://www.robertpeterson.org/pict0072.JPG | B) A photo of a lake or body of water, with