[ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

Kenneth Wimer ken at oxygen-icons.org
Wed May 17 00:06:36 BST 2006


On May 17, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote:

> Building on this momentum, anyone want to helm building a cohesive  
> wiki
> page with the desktop contributions (thumbnails) splash and usplash
> thumbnails?
>
> Nice work guys.
>
> A little warning though -- some of those 640x400 images will NOT scale
> correctly to their final locations.
>
> FYI, if you don't already know this, start with a 640x480 image and
> scale it down to 640x400.  That should get you the correct aspect  
> ratio.
>

Hehe, I had this discussion already with someone else :-)

You only loose information when doing it as you suggest. The correct  
way is to design the whole thing scrunched up like that to begin  
with. Of course, if you are doing it in vector graphics format then  
you can simply scale it before exporting the png.

> Anyone tried to get a usplash to conform to a Gimp 16 color palette
> generated png?  I get 'too many colors' on the attempt to generate a c
> file.
>
>

nope, works great here.

Bye,
Ken




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