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 wrote: > 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

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
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). thnx ~hish ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Camilo Mesias wrote: 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 photo

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. This

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Mola! - Original Message > From: Mola pahnadayan > 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 the birds and t

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 mad

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 02 March 2009 11:22:31 Mola pahnadayan wrote: > 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 ) Hi Mola, I like this mystic looking style and it looks fresh (compared to all blue

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 mailin

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 http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

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 > > > 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:Artwo

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
- Original Message > From: Máirín Duffy > 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 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: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Nicu, - Original Message > From: Nicu Buculei > 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 column because neither t

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 d

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 out

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Beckwith
� wrote: Hey Nicu! - Original Message From: Nicu Buculei 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 Máirín Duffy
Hey Nicu! - Original Message > From: Nicu Buculei > 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 hills across the water?

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?

2009-02-25 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 h

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy > > 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: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup23

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy > >> 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 Brian's starfiled

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 goi

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
> > 2009/2/25 Máirín Duffy > > >> >> 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

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 than

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 > f

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 :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Bob! - Original Message > From: Bob Peterson > To: Fedora Art List > 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 the

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Nicu! - Original Message > From: Nicu Buculei > 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 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 bu

Re: Help out with the f11 wallpaper?

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Peterson
- "Máirín Duffy" 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 as clean a horizon a