Licensing and technical audit;
Remember that the aim of the contest is to promote the creation of Free and 
Libre content, and ship as many as will fit to as many people as possible!


Three of the images in the shortlist (and two in the .zip) are not CC-BY-SA and 
so can't be shiped, as only free/libre images are eligable for inclusion (all 
images offered _must_ to be licensed as CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or CC0 to be 
considered).  Currently this rules *out* shipping of the following three as we 
can't do so legally:

  Forbidden City by pixelflake (wrong licence)
  White Pigeons by noombox (wrong licence)
  Yellow Flower by Angela Henderson (wrong licence)

Andrea Cimitan did an initial preview test of the remaining images
checking for theming/desktop interactions.  A couple of the images
highlight issues with the present average-highlight colour algorithm in
Unity/Unity-2D.  Either the images or code may tweaking.

Cut-offs.  The following exhibits an issue with the person's head being
cut off by the top menu bar on all 16:9 widescreen displays (now the
common-case).  This may be solvable by cropping a slice off the bottom
to give a wider aspect, and effectively moving crop from the default
centre:

  Jumping Man by Marcus Møller (re-cropping)

Dark/unsaturated:  The following has very low histogram spread with
everything pretty in the bottom 20th-percentile:

  White Flower by Zuphi (low saturation/histogram)

There images with high-frequency noise tend to have compression
issues—we only have a limited space budget on the CD and can't blow it
on just a single image, because we have to maximise the number shipped.
This particularly affects:

  The Brew by Fernando Garcia

(but we'll see what fits as trying various combinations of
recompression).

Question:

Iain and the shortlist team; have you picked any illustrations for
shortlisting aswell?  There's traditionally been an illustrated animal-
of-the-release in the pool too a la the Pangolin at the top of:

  http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/10-wallpapers-from-the-precise-
contest-pool/

I'm asking as in the packaging code we have a separate codepath to
manage illustrations, to that for photographs (as they compress
differently).

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