I really like the background on this one, alot. However, the box in the middle gets a little lost so I adjusted the curves to darken it and bring it more into focus.
http://eckenrodehouse.net/kubuntu/kamstrup-edgy-gdm1.xcf On Thursday 05 October 2006 02:18, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:32 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: > > For what it's worth, it's a very light grayish white on my Sony lcd and > > looks good. > > > > I thought it might be interesting if you were to rotate the white > > rectangle 180 degrees so it would appear to be carved out of shiny > > plastic instead of looking like a plaque on top of a background image. > > I'm not sure if it has enough of a bevel to lend to that perception but > > if you post the xcf I'd be happy to play with it and post results. > > I've uploaded the xcf to http://grillbar.org/tmp/kamstrup-edgy-gdm1.xcf. > Play around to your hearts content :-) Consider the license to be "free > like air" - do what ever you want. > > You might wan't to play around with the placement of the box and logo > too. I'm not even sure the box is properly centered (the logo is > though). > > In case anybody wonders about the background "gradient" it was a picture > I took directly into a lightbulb from 2 inches away. > > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:55 +0200, Kristof Verbeken wrote: > > > On my desktop it does look blue too :) > > Ok. I give in :-) I'll try and adjust the colors. BBL. > > > Cheers, > Mikkel > > > > 2006/10/4, Toby Smithe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:50 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:28 +0200, Kristof Verbeken wrote: > > > > > Well .. I like it .. a _lot_ > > > > > But I'm quite sure you'll have to change the blue box to > > > > > > brown. > > > > > > > > Sorry .. Blue&brown just don't seem to fit. > > > > > > > > Maybe my laptop monitor is playing tricks on me... It > > > > > > appears gray here, > > > > > > > what do other people see? > > > > > > > > It is easy to tweak the color of the box so go ahead and > > > > > > flame me ;-P > > > > > > Yeah. The colour is bad. It could be really nice! Make it a > > > colour from > > > the suggested palette, or a variant, and it could be great. > > > Here on this > > > laptop, it looks blue. > > > > -- > > Chuck Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
