Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-03 Thread Saleel
Kenneth Wimer wrote: Oops, sorry. Guess I misread the subject :( -- Ken No wait, I dont think you did, I was viewing one of the wallpapers in Impression, and I read the concept to be for all the walls in Impression. So no I suppose there is no such requirement anywhere, not even in

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-02 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Hself Abstract wall based on flesh tones. Feedback, comments, thoughts all welcome Well I think that the first version is better for bg (the second is better to be just picture

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-02 Thread Saleel
Anton Kerezov wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com mailto:svela...@gmail.com wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Hself Abstract wall based on flesh tones. Feedback, comments, thoughts all welcome Well I think that the first

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-02 Thread rancor
Shouldn't all new wallpapers match the new gdm theme? // rancor On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Kerezov wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com mailto:svela...@gmail.com wrote:    

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 02 March 2009 15:11:29 rancor wrote: Shouldn't all new wallpapers match the new gdm theme? Not necessarily match, no. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-01 Thread Saleel
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Hself Abstract wall based on flesh tones. Feedback, comments, thoughts all welcome! Saleel V https://launchpad.net/%7Esealv -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper: Hself.

2009-03-01 Thread Cory K.
Saleel wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Hself Abstract wall based on flesh tones. Feedback, comments, thoughts all welcome! Not bad for an abstract. Generally pleasing. :) Just my personal pref here, work at 2560x1600 (16:10). -Cory K. -- ubuntu-art mailing

[ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper Uploaded

2009-02-27 Thread Kyle Family
Okay, I just uploaded a wallpaper to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Wallpaper Check it out and then please let me know what you all think... It definitely needs some adaptations, so don't be scared to tell the truth. :) Jent Kyle -- Freelancer Graphic Artist --

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-17 Thread Álvaro Medina Ballester
2006/9/17, Chuck Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alvaro,puedes subir el archivo en xcf?I like your artwork but for me thecolors look a bit bright.I prefer darker backgrounds because of theenormous amount of time I spend looking at monitors. :pChuck p.s.Didn't realize the wiki works so well in Spanish.Hi

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-17 Thread Julian Oliver
i also dislike the current Knot3 wallpaper alot. it's both boring and un-original, especially when seen as a brown version of the blue wallpaper predominating on OSX. this is a comment/criticism i've heard several times of Dapper's default wallpaper. we need to break out and be bold. this is what

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-17 Thread Álvaro Medina Ballester
Yes, Ubuntu isn't OSX but I think that we can learn a lot from OSX or even Windows. In my opinion is not good to make brown OS X for Ubuntu but Apple has done a great job with the desktop artwork and the user interface. We don't have to imitate OS X look but we can learn taking a look to other

[ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-16 Thread Álvaro Medina Ballester
Hi everyone! I've made a wallpaper for ubuntu edgy eft human theme, you can find it here. My idea is that the distinctive area on the desktop must be the panel so I designed this simply and clean wallpaper. Also I find that the ubuntu logo must be in the panel, not in the wallpaper. Please feel

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-16 Thread Steven Johnson
: Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:09:11 PMSubject: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposalHi everyone! I've made a wallpaper for ubuntu edgy eft human theme, you can find it here. My idea is that the distinctive area on the desktop must be the panel so I designed this simply and clean wallpaper. Also I find

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wallpaper proposal

2006-09-16 Thread Chuck Huber
Alvaro, puedes subir el archivo en xcf? I like your artwork but for me the colors look a bit bright. I prefer darker backgrounds because of the enormous amount of time I spend looking at monitors. :p Chuck p.s. Didn't realize the wiki works so well in Spanish. On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:09

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1.png http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1b.png (different color scheme) Very nice Michiel! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-05 Thread Chuck Huber
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: TEST -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Chuck Huber wrote: Images such as Michiel's scale so well partially because they don't contain anything that would give reference to the original image dimensions or aspect ratio. Michiel, do you intend to put a logo or any other branding on the finished

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Chuck Huber wrote: The /usr/share/backgrounds directory currently takes up 4.9 MB and there are 5 extra wallpapers in there called space-01 through space-05.jpg. Though small they scale well and take up very little space on the CD. I'm sure we'll do more

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Viper550 wrote: Better idea...I have 3 letters: SVG Viper550 If you want to even _try_ to convert that wallpaper into SVG, I say give it your best shot. But I know that I'm not going to try. :) I believe that wallpapers will usually require some effects that

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right.

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 0:22 heeft Étienne Bersac het volgende geschreven: Hello, www.neuronioenlatado.com.br/ubuntu/eft1920x1280.png That would be nice to ship wallpaper in such high resolution. Especially for widescreen for 1650x1080 and higher (like OS X do). Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto !

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 9:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: There are two things to bear in mind. First, space. We are very tight on the install CD. In Dapper we switched to 700MB CD formats but we also introduced a lot of example content that shows what the OS is capable

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Jerome Gotangco
Would it be possible to replicate the same effect on an SVG rather than on bitmaps? The early community-developed SVG wallpapers during warty had a very good impact on the look and feel of warty then, although most of them require gradients to achieve the full effect. -- Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 10:00 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Is that so? I always thought that it kept a cached, maybe even uncompressed version of a scaled wallpaper to prevent the rendering from being too difficult. Hmm... maybe that's an idea for the developers. I'll file a

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Joao Inacio
On 6/30/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I encourage people to work on as high resolutions as their RAM will allow. I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers will always, no matter what kinds of strange things will happen, will

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 12:22 heeft Joao Inacio het volgende geschreven: On 6/30/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I encourage people to work on as high resolutions as their RAM will allow. I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi Thiago, On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thiago Ribeiro wrote: I made this wallpaper in Inkscape, but I opened it in Gimp and saved as png. I dont know why when I export it in Inkscape the image isnt the same that I'm seeing. So I'm saving in The Gimp and it's normal. If someone prefer I can

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 13:25 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: Hi Thiago, On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thiago Ribeiro wrote: I made this wallpaper in Inkscape, but I opened it in Gimp and saved as png. I dont know why when I export it in Inkscape the image isnt the same that I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 09:37 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers will always, no matter what kinds of strange things will happen, will work on the highest resolutions that are available. That includes the

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:40 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: The optics of this are poor. There are a plethora of different aspect ratios ( 16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 5:4 ). The only ones that are widely used are 4:3 and 16:10. I don't really see a reason to support 5:4 (??) and

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 17:36 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: The only ones that are widely used are 4:3 and 16:10. I don't really see a reason to support 5:4 (??) and 16:9. Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, The only ones that are widely used are 4:3 and 16:10. I don't really see a reason to support 5:4 (??) and 16:9. All non widescreen 17 LCD use 1280x1024 resolution which is a 5:4 ratio. There are tons of such LCD (i even have a laptop with such screen). Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto !

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right. Sorry. 5:4 (1280x1024) is commonly used as well. I

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-29 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, www.neuronioenlatado.com.br/ubuntu/eft1920x1280.png That would be nice to ship wallpaper in such high resolution. Especially for widescreen for 1650x1080 and higher (like OS X do). Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-28 Thread Thiago Ribeiro
I've been working in a texture that Troy posted here. It's a new wallpaper that I've done. www.neuronioenlatado.com.br/ubuntu/eft2.png what do you think? -- Thiago Ribeiro -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The textures are there to inspire and create new ideas, so it is nice to see someone trying to use them as a leapboard. Thiago's sample shows how we might be able to get some sort of glossy effect across a background. It is worth brainstorming early before everyone starts putting pen to paper