On 7/16/07, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://nova.student.utwente.nl/~lourens/gfx/opengraphics/oscon_2007_presentation_images/wallpaper2.jpg http://nova.student.utwente.nl/~lourens/gfx/opengraphics/oscon_2007_presentation_images/wallpaper2.png http://nova.student.utwente.nl/~lourens/gfx/opengraphics/oscon_2007_presentation_images/wallpaper2.xcf.bz2 It does look somewhat like a menu screen from the latest Resident Evil game. In that respect Lucs the original is better...
That is truly awesome! I spoke with someone who is experienced with doing presentations on projectors, and they suggest that the open window logo and haze would be an excellent slide background behind the text of every slide. We need a running, consistent theme, and we need to have more contrast between foreground and background. So here's an example image they made in PowerPoint: http://www.traversaltech.com/files/ppt_screenshot.png Say what you want about Microsoft, but they did a good job of coming up with images and color schemes that work well on projectors. Anyhow, what they're suggesting is that we use your OGP background with the haze and everything just like you did, but in a dark blue color (rather than dark gray) a lot like the image. (Basically, just extract only the blue channel of your background and use that.) The red color in the above picture would be good for URLs, the golden brown for regular slide titles, and the white for bulletted content text. So, for the TITLE slide (which may just be the root window of the desktop), we can make the colors a bit more vivid and generally make it more colorful. Just maintain good contrast between the background and the words. Play about with the color scheme of the title slide, but if you do that, you'll have to alter the color scheme of the text for that slide as well. This can be very challenging to get right. For the remaining slides, we need an Impress template that has in the background a more subdued version of the open window background so that it isn't distracting from the text. And then with the golden-brown/red-url/white-bullet scheme, it won't be overwhelming or hard to read. This is a chunk of a slide from a presentation they actually did on a projector, and it looked very good: http://www.traversaltech.com/files/ppt_background2.png Things are coming together! I'm about ready to put up another revision of the speech, and as soon as we have an Impress template that we all like, I'm going to put the slides together. That reminds me... I'm going to have to put together some rough versions of images to go on slides. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
