[Waves theme] Trimming unnecessary nodes in the wallpapers

2008-03-28 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
I took an opportunity to look at Waves background and noticed a tremendous amount of nodes for curves causing a huge slowdown to my x86_64 workstation. Removing some of them have reduced the original size from 208 to 186 KB. The blurred dark flame is made with less node though it could be tweaked

Re: Release counter for F9

2008-03-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicu Buculei wrote: The release counter we had for F8 proved to be quite popular, so is natural to have this time another one, maybe with some improvements. With the release scheduled for April 29, about a month from now, I think it is a good time to start planning it. This is my first

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:33 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: Here's an updated version with the support for multi-resolutions. However, I'm not sure how to handle it once we reach the static moments. Perhaps someone with some more experience can help at those points. You can use size elements

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
Matthias Clasen wrote: Wrt to the resolutions, it will be much more useful to have them as separate pngs if we can actually correct the aspect ratio of the images, just rendering the same svg at the different sizes will not give much of an improvement over just using the svg in the first place.

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't followed the discussions on this list very closely in the last weeks, so I need a quick update on where we stand wrt

Re: Waves Syslinux Graphics

2008-03-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Jon! Jon Stanley wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure which version is better. Let me know what you think. I tried adding sulphur to them but it didn't really come out right. From the peanut gallery over here, I like version 2

Re: Release counter for F9

2008-03-28 Thread Jon Stanley
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A first thing would be, IMO, to define when we start counting. I see two possible scenarios: either from a certain number of days in advance (30 days sounds plausible) or from the Release Candidate. I'm not on the

Re: Waves Syslinux Graphics

2008-03-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: And I like better version 1. for consistency (all the other screens have reflection in the water, not on an additional plane) and 2. for physical reasons (we have waves on a liquid surface and a plane and is not realistic at all - the water is like a

Re: [Waves theme] Trimming unnecessary nodes in the wallpapers

2008-03-28 Thread Martin Sourada
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 01:01 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: I took an opportunity to look at Waves background and noticed a tremendous amount of nodes for curves causing a huge slowdown to my x86_64 workstation. Removing some of them have reduced the original size from 208 to 186 KB. The

Ready to Start

2008-03-28 Thread Kyle Leitch
Hello Artists! I’m Kyle from Washington, USA. I’ve got some basic programming experience but art is where it’s at. I’d love to help out on the development of how fedora looks! I do a lot of Photoshop and graphic design (I’ve done several posters and websites) and I’m a photographer.

Blurry Icons

2008-03-28 Thread Michael Beckwith
Wiki page highlighting blurry/missing icons in F9beta http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9IconCheck -- ~Michael http://ridleytx.structed.net (for now) http://michaelbox.net (eventually) ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list