[ubuntu-art] "How to" make something look a particular way

[Frank Schoep]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 15:19, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> ...
> Once we are through the early stages and are converging on a particular
> style it might be nice to draw up a similar HOWTO. It could specify
> things like standard radii for blurring operations, or standard
> procedures to get specific effects in inkscape, gimp, photoshop and
> illustrator. This would mean that multiple collaborators could produce a
> variety of things all of which feel more consistent.

That's a good idea, and in a way we're doing this on a different level already 
by determining textures and colors before producing any artwork. By the time 
we enter the Production phase we'll have some solid guidelines on what color 
hues and textures to use when creating artwork.

One area in which we need more thorough guidelines is when producing or 
polishing icons for the Human icon set. Their style seems to adhere to some 
guidelines which have not been documented publicly so we need to spend some 
time trying to reverse engineer what base palette, shadow techniques and 
materials were used in those.

If there is some public documentation on that icon set, I'd gladly hear about 
it because it will save a lot of time.

With kind regards,

Frank