Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

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Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby funman » 29 Nov 2007 02:16

Hello,

I tried to modify styles/prosilver/imageset/forum-cone.png with gimp, to make it fit better with the blue background:

http://people.videolan.org/~funman/img/ ... e-blue.png

However it would be better if the cone and bubbles keep their original white color, so if anyone feels like an artist .. ;)

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Arite » 29 Nov 2007 09:24

The best thing to do would be convert the white surrounding it to an alpha channel - only trouble is the white strips are done also if you just change the white to alpha. CloudStalker managed to do though it in Paint.NET (see here).

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby funman » 29 Nov 2007 15:18

bad me, cloudstalker already did it and i had not seen :)

i think this is because i only read technical discussions... there is too much posts on the forum

this is what i did with gimp, converting a color to an alpha channel

however, since the bubbles and cone have a different color than pure white, i'm not sure why it gets transformed too :/

Maybe there is another channel for luminance ?

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Arite » 29 Nov 2007 16:59

If you use the "Fuzzy Select Tool" in GIMP then you can select contiguous regions of colour. It doesn't give a perfect background removal, however it is pretty good. I had to manually draw a line for the top-left edge of the white ring on the cone to stop that being selected too (since it is white also), but this is the quick result I got (with a minor touchup - could be cleaned up more around the edges though):

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I still think CloudStalker's result was better.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby 3breadt » 01 Dec 2007 12:08

Transparent PNG:
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Prerendered on background:
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Photoshop calculated the edges and removed most of the white, removed the rest manually with a smooth brush so that it does not look to "pixely" on the colored background.
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby CloudStalker » 02 Dec 2007 04:48

What exactly is the complication? I've already made a download link for the alpha transparent PNG icon, can it not be applied?

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby funman » 02 Dec 2007 05:25

let's ask our buzy & lazy forum admin j-b :)

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Dec 2007 23:46

let's ask our buzy & lazy forum admin j-b :)
I saw that!

(I read all the posts on the forum...
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby 3breadt » 03 Dec 2007 10:52

Then why don't you do something about the logo? replacing the file isn't to complicated is it :D
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Dec 2007 15:30

Then why don't you do something about the logo? replacing the file isn't to complicated is it :D
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby 3breadt » 03 Dec 2007 16:40

CloudStalker's was quite good, but it is to big and has too much white pixels on the edge, does not blend well in the background.
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Dec 2007 17:03

The lazy admin has fullfilled your requests.
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Arite » 11 Dec 2007 18:39

Looks good - blends well with the background (prerendered) :D.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby CloudStalker » 13 Dec 2007 18:51

Much nicer. :)

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby RoLex » 21 Dec 2007 14:57

Very nice to fit the background, but.. Format of your file is PNG and 32-bit colors are used. Forum picture is GIF and it's maximum 256 colors. So you'll have to convert your image to 256 colors too, otherwise I see it as following.

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See the borders? :)

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby funman » 21 Dec 2007 15:30

what is your browser ? because I see no borders using ffox 2.0

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 Dec 2007 19:37

Works fine here... Your browser is broken..
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby joseph5 » 21 Dec 2007 22:37

I see no borders using ffox 2.0
Me neither.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Arite » 21 Dec 2007 23:21

Also using Firefox 2.0, works fine. It could be a scaling problem since bg_header.gif is 92px high, and the image is stretched vertically ~1.5 times, or, as you said, a problem with the colours.

Intetesting - just tried it in "Windows" Internet Explorer 7 - same issue. Not surprising, since IE is full of web standard incompatibilities etc. (even though it is still the most common browser). IE seems to blend the *.gif background when zoomed in (using the only interesting feature in IE - zoom tool), but not the *.png cone.

There are two ways to solve the issue - either change browsers, or convert the forum icon to have an alpha channel.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby RoLex » 22 Dec 2007 12:10

I'm using IE 7.
There are two ways to solve the issue - either change browsers, or convert the forum icon to have an alpha channel.
I think second should do the thing for everybody.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby CloudStalker » 22 Dec 2007 18:31

Hmm, that's strange, I don't get that at all. On mine it seems to blend perfectly with the background.

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 22 Dec 2007 18:48

Well, no, IE7 doesn't show it right... And guess what, I don't care.

Why ? Because IE is a broken browser.

And about alpha channel... IE doesn't support it right.
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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby CloudStalker » 22 Dec 2007 18:50

Sorry to agree here but IE5-7 is the reason that I switched to Firefox, which is now much better and faster then it used to be, if you have the prebeta version. :)

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Re: Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

Postby joseph5 » 23 Dec 2007 20:35

Well, no, IE7 doesn't show it right... And guess what, I don't care.

Why ? Because IE is a broken browser.
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