On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:17 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > >> Máirín Duffy wrote: > >>> Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems > >>> more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it > >>> a more steampunk feel. > >>> > >>> http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl.png > >> Which I think is a very cool looking image, I like it very much. And of > >> course I am curious to learn about your ideas about a more steampunk feel. > >> > >> We may have a winner here. > > > > It does look pretty cool. I tried it on my desktop and have a couple > > observations, although I'm concerned these fall into "eye of the > > beholder" category. Please take with a grain (or 1000) of salt. > > > > * The blue's a bit intense or saturated for a background, maybe a bit > > too much toward the violet -- although I *do* like the idea of varying > > the shade of blue, in the way that F8 was more aqua, and F9 is more > > indigo. > > I totally agree with this. When I tried it as a wallpaper I noticed the > same thing. I made a less saturated version but I made it only for the > aspect ratio of my monitor; it's easy enough to recreate if we want to > use it though; I tweaked the blue channel of the image using the curves > tool: > > http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl-normal2.png > > Re: the colors - they should be easy enough to adjust. This monitor I > have at work, I think the colors are a bit off so I may need to adjust > when I get home where I think my laptop lcd surprisingly has better colors. Yeah, I'm using a big LCD where I am, and although I'm not a color maven, I think I've adjusted it away from "meh" to "not bad." > > * The multitude of gears is AWESOME. It might be nice to make them a > > bit more faded and subtle, but I wonder if that might lose detail to a > > point of losing the theme. > > Yeh. I am thinking maybe some clever fade-in fade-out might make it more > suitable for a desktop background. Another idea I had was make some kind > of keyhole shape in a much more solid/less distracting gradient, and > punch the hole (or wholes) through so you can see glimpses of this gear > work behind it. It might be a really cool effect, but I also think it > would take it even further towards the cyberpunk end of the spectrum > than steampunk. :) That sounds like an *incredibly* cool idea to me. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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