Re: F11 wood wallpaper
Máirín Duffy wrote: From: Thomas Kole diloph...@gmail.com No comments about mine? =( (http://dilopho-dd.deviantart.com/art/Fedora-wood-wallpaper-v2-116975355) We are looking for artwork that relates to Fedora 11's codename, Leonidas. A lion being a king (as Leonidas was) or images depicting Greek scenery fit in with the release codename. I'm not sure how wood fits in, but maybe you have an idea? Other than that we have an explicit policy to not ship wallpapers with the Fedora logo in them. This not only makes our wallpapers more generally useful, but also lessens the complications for folks who repackage Fedora under a different name (eg unofficial spins). Máirín is right. Also for a *defaut* Fedora theme, I would like to use some blue, even if a secondary color. I think, personally, the wallpaper would look a lot nicer without the Fedora logo. It looks like something I might like to use as my own wallpaper, actually, if it didn't have the logo superimposed on it. :) I like how the wood gives the wallpaper a natural feel and how the lighting suggests a stage. Did you use a texture/pattern to create it? It may be interesting to have the texture at a certain angle, not strictly vertical. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ 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: New Concept for F11 King
My favorite is four too. It's cool and simple. 2009/4/1 Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com - Original Message From: Charlie Brej fedora-...@brej.org http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion.jpghttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ebrejc8/temp/lion.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion2.jpghttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ebrejc8/temp/lion2.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion3.jpghttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ebrejc8/temp/lion3.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion4.jpghttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ebrejc8/temp/lion4.jpg 4 without a doubt although it still needs more work. The others are too noisy for a boot screen. I agree with Martin that there should only be one progress bar, along the bottom. I think maybe using the fedora logo centered without the infinity bubble, only the logotype, might work better with the mood too. (background is heavily/grungy textured while the infinty bubble is very shiny/baubly and they kind of clash) ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New Concept for F11 King
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 00:01:40 Charlie Brej wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Also, some of our splash ideas (http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/art/f11/mockups/splash/gnome-splash_f11-4. png for example, with the Greek pattern) could be adapted to use the lion instead, so we would still be able to take advantage of that work. I made a couple plymouth options that combine the greek pattern with the theme. There are 4 levels of complexity. Which one do people think is best? http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion2.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion3.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion4.jpg Personally I vote for 4th Lion. I like 3rd too but black spots look weird. Maybe without lines layer a black spot it will be better, now it's too complicated for splash/KDM background. I can image transition from this background to desktop wallpaper with lion. But there's still one issue - once I use this as KDM/KSplash, we need more backgrounds distributed (maybe one resolution is enough for such simple background even I don't have to deal with wide/normal version)... Could you publish it somewhere? And as Martin pointed out - only one progress bar and match it's color with background. Thanks all involved for this wonderful work! Jaroslav ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list -- Jaroslav Řezník jrez...@redhat.com Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New Concept for F11 King
Máirín Duffy wrote: From: Charlie Brej http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion2.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion3.jpg http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion4.jpg 4 without a doubt although it still needs more work. The others are too noisy for a boot screen. I'm also going for 4, it would be easier to make a GRUB splash matching. And when the boot process end and GDM kick is, the lion will just pop-up over the already existing background, for a good effect, methinks. I agree with Martin that there should only be one progress bar, along the bottom. I think maybe using the fedora logo centered without the infinity bubble, only the logotype, might work better with the mood too. (background is heavily/grungy textured while the infinty bubble is very shiny/baubly and they kind of clash) Yup, one progress bar and maybe larger. I think it would be tiresome (and redundant) to watch two bars progressing at the same time. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ 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: Art team feature
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| Tell us about Fedora.
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Fedora is all participation from contributors, creating projects that
will benefit to Free and Open Source community
and innovations. It is about blending both commercial and community into
one to provide an operating system which is
both cutter edge and stable.
| Give us some history on each art team member. Anyone have formal
training? Who or what influenced you to get involved?
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I have recently completed training in Graphic Design. I started to get
involved as self-taught designer where I worked on some icons like
echo-icon-theme and wallpaper. Due to school, I mostly gave feedback and
suggestion until recently.
| What other Linux distros have you done work for? Any independent Linux
groups you've contributed artwork to?
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Only Fedora and its sub-projects..
| Can you take us through the process from development to finalization
of artwork for a new release of Fedora? Does the general community
contribute also?
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Nicu has addressed that question.
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Inkscape which I found far better than Adobe Illustrator product,
Gimp because it provides features not found on Adobe Photoshop like
Smart Sharper and less RAM hungry,
Scribus with is colour circle
Blender for being light in space and freely available so designers can
easily grasp 3D concept
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graphics software?
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Gimp, support of group layers, CMYK process once GEGL will mature,
non-destructive method support
Inkscape, better input from stylus, better support for file conversion
from Adobe Illustrator file
Scribus, better import/edit/export PDF support, InDesign file, and
better layout.
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development would you like to see with your work pertaining to the
future of Fedora?
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More active participations within and outside the team. The latter is
important because there are potential designers are
shy to express due to language barrier. In a case of echo-icon-theme,
having feedback and beter documentation are crucial. It is a challenge
to work on tremendous project but it can be done.
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advice you can give them on the graphics art side of it?
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Nicu provided a good summary.
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they go?
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In addition of joining Artwork mail-list, look for task to do on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService
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Re: Art team feature
I think you answered all questions fully, explained very well how the Fedora Artwork and philosophy of Project Fedora works. Congratulations Nicu! Jayme Ayres 2009/4/1 Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro Nicu Buculei wrote: Bill DeJohn wrote: My name is Bill DeJohn ( Dadster ). I am co-founder of Linux Graphics Users forum. We have a monthly article where we feature a distros art team. http://linuxgraphicsusers.com/index.php?board=48.0 [...] Questionnaire. I'll go first... hope others will jump in and complete me. Nobody else stepping up for the interview? Mo, Martin, Tatica, anyone? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ 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 -- Jayme Ayres www.jaymeayres.com www.projetofedora.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaymeAyres ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Art team feature
Aloha sorry the late reply Hello to you, I'm María Gracia Leandro but all the members know me as tatica. I'm a fedora ambassador from Venezuela and part of my work is to convert cute things into functional things. I'm working right now in several projects in Venezuela, LatinAmerica and some International Stuff, you can read a resume here [0]... now the questionnaire. Questionnaire. Tell us about Fedora. Fedora for me is a great collaborative network who support a learning and development group of interested people and a huge platform to take a chance of software freedom. We are an example of professionalism and friendship because we have a clearly and organized group of work (developers, artist, press, sponsors and lot more) but we are also a family. It's usual to se an IRC channel talking about the new wallpaper and also see some guys talking about their weekends. We offer an awesome Software but also a great mentored and helpful group. We are fedora Give us some history on each art team member. Anyone have formal training? Who or what influenced you to get involved? This is crazy... I got involved into the free software art looking videos on youtube of privative tools I lean all by myself, reading guides, looking videos, downloading artwork and asking a lot. Fedora came to me when I most need it. I'm not a pro user, but I love to desing... so fedora is a really stable an always first with software issues. I always have the newest and the stable on my fedora desktop (and now laptop :D ) What other Linux distros have you done work for? Any independent Linux groups you've contributed artwork to? Always... I use fedora because I love it, and I spead the fedora word but I don't get too much pression on my new users to be a fedora one. I always tell to them that they should use GN/Linux or *nix based because is good for them. They will be able to learn, share and use things that possibly they were afraid or they think that those are tool for professionals. I help with a lot of communities... some are: Venezuela: Fedora-Venezuela, Ubuntu-Venezuela, Gentoo-Venezuela, UNEFA-Lug, Bolivar-LUG, nelug, velug, and the main organization of Venezuela FLISoL (LatinAmerican Festival of feee software instalation [1] ) International: Gimp-Spanish, Inkscape-Spanish, Blender-Spanish, Also I'm on the translation team for synfig and support some cliparts for several applications. I ussualy help with some conferences like: Flisol, CNSL (National Congress of Free Software), SLUD (Universidad Distrital Linux Week) and more... And lot of more things :D Can you take us through the process from development to finalization of artwork for a new release of Fedora? Does the general community contribute also? Yes. I have never been involved directly on the release artwork, but I do help with some issues. A final artwork is not just a cute wallpaper and some icons and windows... You need banners (in a lot of languages), need news, posters, spins covers and lot of stuff. We all give something to the project... and that's the idea of being a community What are your favorite Linux graphics software programs? jooo... this is a hard one. Should be Gimp, Inkscape and Blender but I also like MakeHuman, SweetHome and synfig... It depends of the use. Any thoughts on ease of use or what you'd like to see changed in Linux graphics software? This is not a dream... it's happening. Al the changes I'd like to see are getting in progress because I'm not just a user. in fact, I'm not a really designer, I'm a programmer... so if I want to see something better on X application I program or ask the community to do it. They are also a community like the fedora one, and they take suggestions and advices... so the thing is not thing on changes... is made them. As operating systems evolve so does their artwork. What direction or development would you like to see with your work pertaining to the future of Fedora? Is the same question. We are working on have something that our users love. We have a lot of new ideas in progress and if anyone wants to say something to the artwork team is invited to colaborate... In any language! :D There are a lot of new distros popping up, seemingly every day. Any advice you can give them on the graphics art side of it? Always think in the simplicity and joy... Almost all users want a cool and easy distro, and that what they should have. If someone wanted to get involved with Fedora artwork, where would they go? To the fedora project main site we have a great website and a lot of local communities to help and mentor anyone who wants to get involved... [2] Anything else you'd like to add? We are free to choose distros... we are free to ask changes... we are free to collaborate with code and art... we are in a new free world and fedora have the tools to make it happen... so, what are you waiting for? [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica [1]
Re: New Concept for F11 King
Hi Samuele, - Original Message From: Samuele Storari sstor...@byte-code.com To: Fedora Art List fedora-art-list@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6:23:47 AM Subject: Re: New Concept for F11 King Hi all https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:King_1920x1200.jpg This is the corrected version, I've left on this only one group of birds 'cause I think they give some light and a good design element to the image. I don't change the source on the wiki 'cause I've only turned off the layers visibility of the other elements. This is cool. How was it changed though? What was corrected? Then: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Anaconda_promp_screen_mockup.jpg This is my proposal for the Splash of this release, onestly I don't think mixing Lion with the greek style is so in line, 'cause they are 2 different themes, but this only my idea, so let the team decide what is best. These look very nice, but I think they are too thematic. Like, maybe if just the banner on the top had the lion or just the banner in the middle. But both having it seems a little overkill to me. I think we should go with a more abstract style for the banners. I think the Greek style actually works well and I'd rather see something a little more low-key / abstract like that on the splash banners. I think of any of the graphics, the wallpaper can be the most thematic, but the other artwork should really fade more into the background. In the afternoon I will post something for the Plymouth screen. Cool can you work with Charlie's mockups so we're not duplicating efforts? About the dual display I will make some test and then upload it, let me try something. Cool ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New Concept for F11 King
Yes, maybe your right. I think we can use the center splash like what I've done for the installation and one more abstract for the header to not overcharge the graphic. So for the plymouth I vote for the version number 3. :D Samuele - Original Message - From: Máirín Duffy mai...@linuxgrrl.com To: Fedora Art List fedora-art-list@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, 1 April, 2009 3:40:31 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: New Concept for F11 King Hi Samuele, - Original Message From: Samuele Storari sstor...@byte-code.com To: Fedora Art List fedora-art-list@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6:23:47 AM Subject: Re: New Concept for F11 King Hi all https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:King_1920x1200.jpg This is the corrected version, I've left on this only one group of birds 'cause I think they give some light and a good design element to the image. I don't change the source on the wiki 'cause I've only turned off the layers visibility of the other elements. This is cool. How was it changed though? What was corrected? Then: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Anaconda_promp_screen_mockup.jpg This is my proposal for the Splash of this release, onestly I don't think mixing Lion with the greek style is so in line, 'cause they are 2 different themes, but this only my idea, so let the team decide what is best. These look very nice, but I think they are too thematic. Like, maybe if just the banner on the top had the lion or just the banner in the middle. But both having it seems a little overkill to me. I think we should go with a more abstract style for the banners. I think the Greek style actually works well and I'd rather see something a little more low-key / abstract like that on the splash banners. I think of any of the graphics, the wallpaper can be the most thematic, but the other artwork should really fade more into the background. In the afternoon I will post something for the Plymouth screen. Cool can you work with Charlie's mockups so we're not duplicating efforts? About the dual display I will make some test and then upload it, let me try something. Cool ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list -- Samuele Storari Art Director Byte-Code srl mobile: +39 347 50 798 32 office: +39 02 9840047 http://www.byte-code.com ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New Concept for F11 King
Samuele Storari wrote: Yes, maybe your right. I think we can use the center splash like what I've done for the installation and one more abstract for the header to not overcharge the graphic. So for the plymouth I vote for the version number 3. :D Could you use the linked image [1] as the rust layer? This would make it easy to make the desktop repeat as the left and right edges are matched. [1] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/rust3.png ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: F11 wood wallpaper
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: From: Thomas Kole diloph...@gmail.com No comments about mine? =( (http://dilopho-dd.deviantart.com/art/Fedora-wood-wallpaper-v2-116975355) We are looking for artwork that relates to Fedora 11's codename, Leonidas. A lion being a king (as Leonidas was) or images depicting Greek scenery fit in with the release codename. I'm not sure how wood fits in, but maybe you have an idea? Other than that we have an explicit policy to not ship wallpapers with the Fedora logo in them. This not only makes our wallpapers more generally useful, but also lessens the complications for folks who repackage Fedora under a different name (eg unofficial spins). Máirín is right. Also for a *defaut* Fedora theme, I would like to use some blue, even if a secondary color. No sorry, blue would look awful with brown. It dont have to be a standard wallpaper, like the solar is now, but more like the stone bird and the ladybugs :) I think, personally, the wallpaper would look a lot nicer without the Fedora logo. It looks like something I might like to use as my own wallpaper, actually, if it didn't have the logo superimposed on it. :) I like how the wood gives the wallpaper a natural feel and how the lighting suggests a stage. Did you use a texture/pattern to create it? It may be interesting to have the texture at a certain angle, not strictly vertical. No sorry, it wont look good with that too. But if you want to try, Ill upload the .xcf to my website. Link comes soon. ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: F11 wood wallpaper
- Original Message From: Thomas Kole diloph...@gmail.com I think, personally, the wallpaper would look a lot nicer without the Fedora logo. It looks like something I might like to use as my own wallpaper, actually, if it didn't have the logo superimposed on it. :) I like how the wood gives the wallpaper a natural feel and how the lighting suggests a stage. Did you use a texture/pattern to create it? It may be interesting to have the texture at a certain angle, not strictly vertical. No sorry, it wont look good with that too. But if you want to try, Ill upload the .xcf to my website. Link comes soon. What do you man? It wouldn't look good at an angle? Or it wouldn't look good without the Fedora logo? Was wondering about the answer to my question about if you used a texture/pattern to create it. It seems you missed it? ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: F11 wood wallpaper
Máirín Duffy wrote: - Original Message From: Thomas Kole diloph...@gmail.com I think, personally, the wallpaper would look a lot nicer without the Fedora logo. It looks like something I might like to use as my own wallpaper, actually, if it didn't have the logo superimposed on it. :) I like how the wood gives the wallpaper a natural feel and how the lighting suggests a stage. Did you use a texture/pattern to create it? It may be interesting to have the texture at a certain angle, not strictly vertical. No sorry, it wont look good with that too. But if you want to try, Ill upload the .xcf to my website. Link comes soon. What do you man? It wouldn't look good at an angle? Or it wouldn't look good without the Fedora logo? Was wondering about the answer to my question about if you used a texture/pattern to create it. It seems you missed it? ~m I mean when it has an angle. Yeah, it was made with a pattern and i made it myself. Of course. Regards, Thomas Kole ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: F11 wood wallpaper
Thomas Kole wrote: [snipped] Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín is right. Also for a *defaut* Fedora theme, I would like to use some blue, even if a secondary color. No sorry, blue would look awful with brown. [snipped] Actually, it appears that someone else thought blue would've been fine: http://oliuss.deviantart.com/art/Hardwood-Night-88299626?offset=10 http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1649/welcomebackgroundbg.jpg -- Justin Fuhrer ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
