Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop/Archive

This is the archive of past requests to the Graphic Lab. New requests can be submitted here.
Pages in archive include: December 2006, January 2007, February 2007, March 2007, April 2007, May 2007, June 2007, July 2007, August 2007.

DonePrince's Palace of Monaco

source JPG
SVG

Article(s):Prince's Palace of Monaco

Request: I created this image and the one below for the Scottish Parliament building a while back - I understand the preference with such images is to have them in the scalable SVG format - unfortunately I had no way to convert them - I think I've still got the photoshop files, if anyone would like to parse the files? Mcginnly | Natter 10:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Well, this one is of high enough quality that I don't really see a point in conversion.--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 11:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the only reason for SVG-ification would be to reduce file size, and the same for below. --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 14:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not the only. SVG also makes files simpler to edit, including for localization. ~~I'll go ahead and start on this one - just the sort of menial job I could use ATM. ¦ Reisio 04:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)~~ Actually I will go ahead and start on this one if you relicense as public domain. ¦ Reisio 07:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good point; I hadn't thought of that. --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 15:04, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the license - like I said, if it's less work for you guys I can send the photoshop files - seems I can export as png from photoshop if you'd prefer that also. regards --Mcginnly | Natter 08:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably won't make any difference. ¦ Reisio 20:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To me, it looks like a tricky and time-consuming task to completely do manually. Unless someone else takes up the work that Reisio started, your best bet might be to upload the original Photoshop files to the Internet somewhere and post a link. They may be of use to someone, and could save a lot of manual work. But at least, if you can upload PNG versions here to replace the JPEGs, that would also be good: as a rule, PNG is better than JPEG for maps and diagrams like this. CountingPine 01:00, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PNG is preferable to jpg however.--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 20:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna go on an unplanned hiatus, so I won't be finishing this. I didn't get that far, and anyone doing this would probably rather start from their own blank slate, but here's (32 KB) my Inkscape SVG anyways - some layers may be hidden ATM, I don't remember.. ¦ Reisio 08:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't you just use the trace image tool in Inkscape? Not perfect, but one can tweak it a bit... vlad§inger ^tlk 00:39, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or the fill bucket tool In the development versions... --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 07:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In an effort to actually complete this request, I've started tracing this in Inkscape. It might take me a while, mind. --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 22:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's what I've got so far. Not finished yet by a long way. See a higher res version at User:DTR/Sandbox. --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 23:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly finished, just need to add the railings or whatever they are. --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 14:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Dave, that's great. --Mcginnly | Natter 14:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Upernavik cemetary

Done

Article(s): None...yet

Request: I would like to promote this picture for FP on wikicommons. However it has some noise in the sky, which I would like to have reduced. I have done the following to the photo so far.

Improved saturation by 10
Tilted to get the horizon straight
Downsampled from 5Mpixels to 3.7 Mpixels to reduce noise
Applied and unsharp mask of radius 1.0 and amount 0.7 (this increased the noise a little).

I am using The GIMP. I have tried to remove the noise by making an inverted edgedetected mask and apply this to a LAB decomposed imange in the luminosity channel for doing a Gaussian blur with radius 5.0. However it gave some strange border effect. If you are able to help me I'd be interesting in learning how such that I can do it myself on other images. I can also upload the original unmodified image if this is of any help. Thank you. -- Slaunger 23:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Well, I did it myself based on the original (yeah, I know, not very patient). Or at least I tried... -- Slaunger 08:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]