Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME-Backgrounds for GNOME 2.10

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 06-11-2004, sob o godzinie 12:02 +0000, Thomas Wood napisał:
> > Now, on technical side, I must say not all of the images are of high
> > enough quality, most of ones stored in JPEG have visible compression
> > artifacts that IMHO should never occur in good artwork. If possible,
> > regenerating that artwork to PNG, or at least JPEG with good quality
> > settings should be performed, if not, then I'd say they should be
> > removed from module. There are enough good quality backgrounds even
> > after removing those.
> 
> They where actually regenerated as JPEG from PNG files, since JPEG
> compression in terms of file size is superior than PNG. For example, the
> Hills background is almost 3MB as a PNG file, even with the highest
> compression options. As a JPEG it is 1.1MB with the highest quality
> settings. I couldn't discern any obvious JPEG artifacts on the current
> images, but if there are any in particular you think should be at higher
> quality, let me know and I'll re-convert them.

GNOME-Aqua.jpg and GNOME-Wierdcolours.jpg, both display JPEG noise in
the same place -- around the edges of Foot and toes. This is especially
visible in latter one (which, btw, is misspelt, should be "Weirdcolours"
I presume :)

Cheers,
Maciej

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