Re: New artwork proposal for Wheezy
Please don't change it any more! It's great as it is.
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 16:43 +0100, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
> Am 09.03.2012 um 23:08 schrieb Ben Finney:
>
> > > Am 09.03.2012 um 09:21 schrieb Roman Khomasuridze:
> > > > As of journey, I like the concept, but nebula and spacecraft
> > > > part
> > > > might be quite heavy on eyes,
> >
> > I agree with Roman. The picture is very good and nice to look at as
> > a
> > piece of art.
> >
> > But as a desktop background, it is too distracting: busy, high
> > contrast,
> > many colours. It jumps to the foreground!
> >
> > > I added a soft shadow to the left half of the wallpaper.
> > > http://lazybrowndog.net/debian/wheezy/_wallpaper/journey-wallpaper-v2.jpg
> > >
> > > Does this work better for you?
> >
> > I don't see much of a difference, and the above points still apply.
>
> Perhaps this is more obvious:
>
> http://lazybrowndog.net/debian/wheezy/_wallpaper/journey-screenshot-gnome-preview-v3.png (new version)
> http://lazybrowndog.net/debian/wheezy/_wallpaper/journey-screenshot-gnome-preview-v1.png (original)
>
> The picture is now darker on the left side. The spacecraft is lighter,
> which reduces the contrast to the glow of the nebula.
>
> I am still convinced that the topic (space, stars) works great for the
> wallpaper. Many people use pictures like this one. Look at OS X with
> its beautiful Andromeda picture. And I think, the Orion nebula
> shouldn't look plain. We like it because it doesn't.
>
> But of course it is work in progress. :-)
>
> > Thank you for making this beautiful piece, and working to fit it for
> > the
> > use case.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> regards
> Ulrich
>
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