Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
Jarod Wen wrote: Hi all, I have just finished my first attempt: two candidates for the live cd, one for the install dvd. The style of the design follows the previous version used in Fedora 9. Most of the sources used in these design are from the source of Solar theme of Fedora 10. Since I am a newbie in design using Gimp and Inkscape, there are lots of learner's attempts... Please don't hesitate to give me any suggestions to improve the source files. You can find them from the link: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jarodwen/Fedora/10/sleeve_arts/sleeve_arts.html IIRC, the number of different colors shoots up the printing cost of the material drastically. Shades of the same color is ok. You might want to keep that in mind. Rahul ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
GIMP 2.6 packages
Hi RPM packages http://www.nabble.com/GIMP-2.6.0-for-Fedora-8-9-(Was:-Re:-ANNOUNCE:-GIMP-2.6.0)-p19815879.html Rahul ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
Rahul Sundaram wrote: IIRC, the number of different colors shoots up the printing cost of the material drastically. Shades of the same color is ok. You might want to keep that in mind. That is a real concern when printing on the real CD on large scale, but for inkjet sleeve printing (do yourself at home) it is not a problem. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
Ian Weller wrote: You might want to use the MgOpen Modata font, as that's the font that Fedora uses for pretty much everything in their designs. You can get it installed by running yum install mgopen-fonts Yeah, MgOpen Modata for the release number (10), disk title (x86 LiveCD) and for the url (fp.o). But the copyright text *may* be better (has to be tested) to stay with a plain font (Liberation, DejaVu) for readability. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:00 -0500, Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Jarod Wen wrote: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jarodwen/Fedora/10/sleeve_arts/sleeve_arts.html Otherwise, back to the art... very nice! For the CD cases it seems like the sun isn't the same as the DVD case or the rest of the artwork... could you check that? It's the same base XCF, but some of the layers have been hidden, removing some of the surface turbulence and most of the foreground flares. If we're going with the top image though, I'd like to see those layers restored. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: GIMP 2.6 packages
Rahul Sundaram wrote: RPM packages http://www.nabble.com/GIMP-2.6.0-for-Fedora-8-9-(Was:-Re:-ANNOUNCE:-GIMP-2.6.0)-p19815879.html I understand that I sound like a n00b, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about updating glib2 this way. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Jarod Wen wrote: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jarodwen/Fedora/10/sleeve_arts/sleeve_arts.html Other people are better suited to critique and adjust the design, fonts, and so forth. Some things we should also do with the jackets: * For Live CD, include a small bit of information about how to use the media: This disc contains a complete bootable Fedora environment. To use it, make sure your computer supports booting from its CD or DVD drive. Then insert the disc, turn the computer's power on, and follow the prompts. If you enjoy this Fedora environment, you can copy it to your computer using the desktop 'Install to Hard Disk' icon. For further assistance, visit help.fedoraproject.org. * Make sure that the printing of the design is going to be a reasonable cost for the Ambassadors bulk-ordering the discs. If there are any sort of color restrictions, we should get those figured out up-front. I believe the NA Ambassadors were working with Karlie Robinson on duplication. I'm not sure whether they are getting sleeves made by the same vendor. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug pgpPA0e0or44F.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:00 -0500, Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Jarod Wen wrote: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jarodwen/Fedora/10/sleeve_arts/sleeve_arts.html Otherwise, back to the art... very nice! For the CD cases it seems like the sun isn't the same as the DVD case or the rest of the artwork... could you check that? It's the same base XCF, but some of the layers have been hidden, removing some of the surface turbulence and most of the foreground flares. If we're going with the top image though, I'd like to see those layers restored. It is really the problem for me to merge the same planet from DVD to CD, since I didn't find a better way to copy several layers together to another Gimp file(I am a newbie there...), so finally I made a png for the planet image and combine it into the CD files. I am sure that the conversion from layers to png has eaten something... Anyone gives me some ideas on that? Ian Weller wrote: You might want to use the MgOpen Modata font, as that's the font that Fedora uses for pretty much everything in their designs. You can get it installed by running yum install mgopen-fonts Yeah, MgOpen Modata for the release number (10), disk title (x86 LiveCD) and for the url (fp.o). But the copyright text *may* be better (has to be tested) to stay with a plain font (Liberation, DejaVu) for readability. In fact I used the MgOpen Moderna, since when I tried to use MgOpen Modata, I found that the effects on my works showed a little difference from the ones in the sleeves of Fedora 9, where MgOpen Modata was used. I think I can changed it soon. Rahul Sundaram wrote: IIRC, the number of different colors shoots up the printing cost of the material drastically. Shades of the same color is ok. You might want to keep that in mind. That is a real concern when printing on the real CD on large scale, but for inkjet sleeve printing (do yourself at home) it is not a problem. Ye guys, you are right. I didn't consider this problem. I will try to decrease the number of colors. Thanks for all of your comments! -- Jarod Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Re: Candidates for Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves
Hi Jarod! On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:00 -0500, Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Jarod Wen wrote: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jarodwen/Fedora/10/sleeve_arts/sleeve_arts.html Otherwise, back to the art... very nice! For the CD cases it seems like the sun isn't the same as the DVD case or the rest of the artwork... could you check that? It's the same base XCF, but some of the layers have been hidden, removing some of the surface turbulence and most of the foreground flares. If we're going with the top image though, I'd like to see those layers restored. It is really the problem for me to merge the same planet from DVD to CD, since I didn't find a better way to copy several layers together to another Gimp file(I am a newbie there...), so finally I made a png for the planet image and combine it into the CD files. I am sure that the conversion from layers to png has eaten something... Anyone gives me some ideas on that? From the aurora in the image it looks like you may be using an older version of the XCF. I would strongly recommend just using one of the png wallpapers as the base image to use right now as you can be assured those are okay to use. Yeah, MgOpen Modata for the release number (10), disk title (x86 LiveCD) and for the url (fp.o). But the copyright text *may* be better (has to be tested) to stay with a plain font (Liberation, DejaVu) for readability. In fact I used the MgOpen Moderna, since when I tried to use MgOpen Modata, I found that the effects on my works showed a little difference from the ones in the sleeves of Fedora 9, where MgOpen Modata was used. I think I can changed it soon. It definitely doesn't look like MgOpen Modata, I'm not sure what's gone wrong for you. That is a real concern when printing on the real CD on large scale, but for inkjet sleeve printing (do yourself at home) it is not a problem. Ye guys, you are right. I didn't consider this problem. I will try to decrease the number of colors. Actually you don't have to worry about this for the sleeves. It is only the disc designs themselves that are color-limited because of the screen printing process used to print them. So the colors are fine, but I would replace the image with one of the wallpaper pngs because it looks like it's one of the older, uncleaned versions. ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
[Echo] format-text-* icons
Hi, I've just finished four of the format-text-* icons. For the ones for ltr and rtl I am not yet sure what metaphor to use and since I don't remember seeing them anywhere I think we can wait with their fix for later. Some background to the design I used: I've started with the 16x16 size this time (usually I start with the bigger ones) because these icons are really crucial to be crisp and have recognisable metaphor especially in small sizes (usually they are in tool bars in the 22x22/24x24 version). After few tries I decided to go button-like. It is like you create a button with the shape of the original letter, but without any holes in it and draw the letter on it. First it is consistent with e.g. dialog-cancel design, second it is easy to recognise and third (and most important) - when you add the holes, it makes the icon hard to read. I used URW Bookman L font for the design because it nicely shows differences between bold/normal/italics font faces. I hope the usage is OK, the font is not embed in the SVG - I converted it to paths to be able to better work with it. I followed gnome metaphors in using only a because b (bold), i (italics) and u (underline) is English based and not suggestive in many other languages (like my own, Czech). I attach 32x32 versions for quick comparison, the one-canvas ones are available at my fedora people page [1]. Comments welcome, Martin References: [1] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/echo/Actions/ attachment: format-text-bold.pngattachment: format-text-italic.pngattachment: format-text-strikethrough.pngattachment: format-text-underline.png signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: [Echo] format-text-* icons
Martin Sourada wrote: After few tries I decided to go button-like. It is like you create a button with the shape of the original letter, but without any holes in it and draw the letter on it. First it is consistent with e.g. dialog-cancel design, second it is easy to recognise and third (and most important) - when you add the holes, it makes the icon hard to read. I think I have to *see* those button-like icons in a real toolbar to decide if I like the style. The PNGs saved on my desktop do not look good on a colored background, but not that bad on a light gray one opened with eog. I think the shape for striketrough would be better with the dash on the same plane as the letter face, not on top of it (attached). Probably you can do it better with extra details (show the top of the dash). I used URW Bookman L font for the design because it nicely shows differences between bold/normal/italics font faces. I hope the usage is OK, the font is not embed in the SVG - I converted it to paths to be Isn't the font Free? I think it is. able to better work with it. I followed gnome metaphors in using only a because b (bold), i (italics) and u (underline) is English based and not suggestive in many other languages (like my own, Czech). I attach 32x32 versions for quick comparison, the one-canvas ones are available at my fedora people page [1]. And I attached a preview with all the icons grouped, I find it much better for previewing. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro inline: g2492.pnginline: format-text.png___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: [Echo] format-text-* icons
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:18 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: After few tries I decided to go button-like. It is like you create a button with the shape of the original letter, but without any holes in it and draw the letter on it. First it is consistent with e.g. dialog-cancel design, second it is easy to recognise and third (and most important) - when you add the holes, it makes the icon hard to read. I think I have to *see* those button-like icons in a real toolbar to decide if I like the style. The PNGs saved on my desktop do not look good on a colored background, but not that bad on a light gray one opened with eog. Well, the first impression is not the best one in this case, you are not used to this type of icons, but after a while it gets better - during the long time I've created these (I didn't have much time to work on them) I grew to love them... I think the shape for striketrough would be better with the dash on the same plane as the letter face, not on top of it (attached). Probably you can do it better with extra details (show the top of the dash). I haven't tried this one but it seems to look better :-) And I attached a preview with all the icons grouped, I find it much better for previewing. Well, previewing is best in tool bar... but for that I would need to add the icons to the theme first (I've done this with some of the system - administration icons) ;-) Martin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Second draft of candidates for F10 solar CD/DVD sleeves
Sorry guys, I forgot to change the font for the number 10... The problem has been fixed. The link has not been changed. On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Jarod Wen wrote: Hi All, Please find the updated draft of candidates for F10 solar CD/DVD sleeves from this link: -- Jarod Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: GIMP 2.6 packages
Nicu Buculei escribió: Rahul Sundaram wrote: RPM packages http://www.nabble.com/GIMP-2.6.0-for-Fedora-8-9-(Was:-Re:-ANNOUNCE:-GIMP-2.6.0)-p19815879.html I understand that I sound like a n00b, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about updating glib2 this way. Indeed. It'd be much better an official update, especially when you have into consideration the number of dependencies to build the package for say F8 x86_64 (or PPC) ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Second draft of candidates for F10 solar CD/DVD sleeves
Jarod Wen wrote: As mentioned by ~m, since the color issue is not a key one now, I kept the original color design for this version. I will try to figure out how to decrease the number of colors while keeping the better performance(it is a little hard to me as a newbie... :-P). I don't think you will be able the reduce the number of colors, the only change is to do something like the GRUB screen (a simplified image). -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
