Hi Máirín, well, I really prefer nr. 6 too; by less dense you mean fewer or more evenly distributed on the surface? The problem here is that the sparkles also generate the pattern in the background, so fewer spots mean a darker bg. I'm not sure there is a way to export the sparkles and the background separately, but I'll try that later. S_ Il giorno mar, 23/06/2015 alle 07.53 -0400, Máirín Duffy ha scritto: > Hey Sam! > > On 06/21/2015 01:10 PM, Samuel wrote: >> Hey people! >> >> Here are the results of further iterating on the concept discussed on >> Tuesday. >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100882866/Sharing/f23_wp_wip.zip >> >> IMHO, the right direction is in the even ones, 6-8-10. Let me know what >> do you think! :-) > > I think I like test6 the best, but maybe less dense sparkles? Is it easy > enough to remove the sparkles and maybe we can play with different > sparkle configs in Gimp layered on top? > > ~m

Sorry, it took hours to render the 4k PNG. I've just uploaded both the raw file and a color-corrected version in GH. [1] Honestly, I think that with no sparkles at all it looks even better. S_ [1] https://github.com/fedoradesign/f23-wallpaper/tree/master/pattern

Here [1] are three different versions with some contrast/color adjusments – I've tried to check how it looks across different displays, just to make sure it is displayed at the best with different settings. Then I've uploaded two cropped samples with the vignette. [2] I think I prefer A or B, C is a bit too dull.

Hey! Well, on my main monitor [profiled] it looks great right now, on my other one [older and with out-of-the-box settings] in some areas is hard to distinguish the pattern, it seems a bit blurry – but this effect may work too. Maybe adjusting the curves on the midtones could help? But, anyway, apart from contrast, which is fine in yours, the only thing which I'd rather lowering a bit is color saturation, maybe a too bright hue could be a bit disturbing? About the vignette: maybe a stupid thought, but should we take into account the top black bar so to have the vignette starting from its bottom and not underneath? Last idiot thing, I've noticed your image is blurred if displayed at 1:1, compared to the original; have you applied any effect or is just jpeg compression? http://i.imgur.com/J0Nx3KR.png [yours left] S_ > > On 07/16/2015 09:20 AM, Samuel wrote: > > Here [1] are three different versions with some contrast/color > > adjusments – I've tried to check how it looks across different displays, > > just to make sure it is displayed at the best with different settings. > > Then I've uploaded two cropped samples with the vignette. [2] I think I > > prefer A or B, C is a bit too dull. > > So tested out each one as the wallpaper on my monitors (I have dual 27 > or 28" monitors) and I think the contrast in B is too high, even with > the vignette. I poked around with Gimp 2.9 with high precision on (I > used 16 bit floating point no gamma correction) and came up with this > one. I've been staring at it a while and it doesn't seem too contrasty > but I may have been staring at it too long to have a clean opinion. > Anyway what I did with this one is take B, turn the contrast down a bit, > adjust for the lost saturation in color, and then added a vignette again. > > http://i.imgur.com/5jOGGoG.jpg > > what do you think? > > ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Hey, here [1] you can find three new raw patterns – I know there are still some darker areas around, but imho after contrast adjustment should be less visible than in the older one. Sorry for the really low res, it takes a while to render it anyway... What do you think? S_ [1] https://github.com/fedoradesign/f23-wallpaper/tree/master/pattern/beta _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Hi Sam! On 08/03/2015 04:00 PM, Samuel wrote: > here [1] you can find three new raw patterns – I know there are still > some darker areas around, but imho after contrast adjustment should be > less visible than in the older one. Thanks for the update!! I agree with Alexander - the 3rd iteration looks to be the strongest IMHO. ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team