I think what I might do is simply to make it look like it's make of gold cloth. Would that please everyone? It'll look nice, it'll have no political/national/organizational connotations or overtones, and it should contrast well with the slighty deBondified sea.
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:17 am Post subject:
JKT wrote:
How about a combination of signal flags such as N and O instead?
Hmmm... Not sure that they'll shrink down very prettily. Plus, I don't think they had those symbols in the era of our sailing ship, which might jar a little. Plus, I don't *think* that you'd have letter flags like this as your primary flags on a vessel. More likely to be strung out on a line in a message sequence.
Plus, they're definitely not romantic! And what I like about the ship is its evocative (if somewhat nonsensical/whimsical) romance. No need, IMO, to slap anything modern on it.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: New splash image - my responses
foxcorner wrote:
Great! No, the ship won't change... except probably the flag. But I'm guessing the flags are too small to see in the document icons?
At 32x32, the flag is a blip in the document icons on my 1440x900 screen, but at anything larger, it starts to become noticeable. I don't know what resolutions (and pixel sizes) are common, or icons display sizes that are common, so for consistency's sake I'll wait on the final outcome of the flag issue.
foxcorner wrote:
sardisson wrote:
But the ship is very nice, very clean, and will look much better on the document icons!
Glad you like it!
My own biggest complaint with my icons was that the ship lost definition quickly at a smaller size, so one day (when I had copious free time!) I was going to go in and remove some of the detail at the smaller sizes...with the new ship, it's not an issue at all!
I think what I might do is simply to make it look like it's make of gold cloth. Would that please everyone? It'll look nice, it'll have no political/national/organizational connotations or overtones, and it should contrast well with the slighty deBondified sea.
Sounds good! I had been toying with the idea of a rising half-sun on a field of white (see British Columbia for a nice rising half-sun), but I haven't made it through all the flags listed with keyword "sun" to see if it's safe. (Nor am I sure it'd be discernable on the splash screen.)
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: Ideas are happenin'...
Hi all,
I let my imagination run loose with ideas for a new splash screen, and I've had an *awesome* idea! 'S gonna be hard to pull off, cos I don't know if it's ever been done before...
But if I can do it, it's gonna be one COOL splash!
'S gonna tax my artistic and Photoshop skills to the limit! I'll try to get it done by the end of the weekend, Incredibles permitting.
And yes, the ship will stay the same (apart from gold-cloth flags, or a better idea if anyone comes up with one that I like ). However, the ship in the splash image might end up a little smaller.
Um... Patrick... is there anything that says that the splash image can't be a little bigger? I can imagine we're stuck with this size, 'cos it's where the progress bar expects it to be, right? No worries. It just adds to the challenge...
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: New splash image - my responses
sardisson wrote:
My own biggest complaint with my icons was that the ship lost definition quickly at a smaller size
Like I said in my first posting: bird poop.
sardisson wrote:
so one day (when I had copious free time!) I was going to go in and remove some of the detail at the smaller sizes...with the new ship, it's not an issue at all!
Well, to a certain extent, anyway. But yeah, it holds its visual intelligibility a lot better than the original one.
And no, I'm not planning to make 48x48 and 32x32 simplified versions for the icon family, either!
Joined: Nov 28, 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Colorado, USA
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:18 am Post subject: Re: New splash image - my responses
sardisson wrote:
At 32x32, the flag is a blip in the document icons on my 1440x900 screen, but at anything larger, it starts to become noticeable. I don't know what resolutions (and pixel sizes) are common, or icons display sizes that are common, so for consistency's sake I'll wait on the final outcome of the flag issue.
So Smokey, I take it you're the hero who's going to do the icons, right?
Do you need me to generate a new application aqua icon, with the gold flags? Or can you do that step yourself? I can do it if you need me too.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject: New app icon and updated document icons
So foxcorner and I have been slaving away in the digital workrooms for a while on all the new pretty images for Neo/J 1.1 Beta, and I've just sent Patrick the Finder icons (and a quick correction of a little blob I caught immediately afterwards), and they're in CVS already!
I didn't have time to do the reworking of the icons that I had planned (*I* was not going to be the cause of a delayed Neo/J beta! ), so there are still a number of issues with the base icons in the documents. Maybe before Neo/J 1.1 GM I'll have the time to sit down and rework things....
But here's a quick preview (107KB):
This is going to be an exciting week here in Neo-land!
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: Re: New app icon and updated document icons
sardisson wrote:
So foxcorner and I have been slaving away in the digital workrooms for a while on all the new pretty images for Neo/J 1.1 Beta, and I've just sent Patrick the Finder icons (and a quick correction of a little blob I caught immediately afterwards), and they're in CVS already!
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