Redesign the forum icon (i-cone)

[funman]

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 ..

[Arite]

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).

Arite.

[funman]

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 ?

[Arite]

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):



I still think CloudStalker's result was better.

Cheers, Arite.

[3breadt]

Transparent PNG:

Prerendered on background:


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.

[CloudStalker]

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

[funman]

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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

I saw that!

(I read all the posts on the forum...

[3breadt]

Then why don't you do something about the logo? replacing the file isn't to complicated is it

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Then why don't you do something about the logo? replacing the file isn't to complicated is it

I wait for you to decide which one is the good one. Then wait, then wait for you to pray me, then do it...

[3breadt]

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.


Choose for yourself, I won't pray to you

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

The lazy admin has fullfilled your requests.

[Arite]

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

Arite.

[CloudStalker]

Much nicer.

[RoLex]

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.



See the borders?

[funman]

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Works fine here... Your browser is broken..

[joseph5]

I see no borders using ffox 2.0

Me neither.

[Arite]

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.

Cheers, Arite.

[RoLex]

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.

[CloudStalker]

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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.

[CloudStalker]

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.

[joseph5]

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

Why ? Because IE is a broken browser.

Well said