[ubuntu-art] Breathe generic/blank + image emblems proposal

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 02:38 +0100, Danny King wrote:

> http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5465/paper2mq5.png

Din A series format, nice :)


>  and also a suggestion for the look & feel for emblems (filetypes)
> http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/534/imagesyw9.png
> 
> The colours of the 'pixels' on that second link could be changed. I
> don't like the JPG one, but it's just to trigger conversation. The
> idea was to symbolise the differences in the different image formats
> (png has alpha transparency, GIF has a limited palette , JPG has a
> larger palette with no transparency.)

Interesting idea. I would use fewer color fields for the GIF them
though. The brighter fields for PNG do not manage to get transparency
across.

How about
- landscape photography, smooth with gradients, for JPG
- just a few colors in a grid for GIF
- some kind of poster with a cut-out shape in front of a checkerboard
(like used by GIMP and PS to show transparency)
?

But where do these actually appear, instead of image thumbnails?


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