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Author	Person
Subject	Examples
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Publication date	2007
Pages	155
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Graphics Lab Archive (all pre-October 2009, before the three current Workshops existed) v t e
	Completed requests from the former workshops (Images to improve & Image workshop) were archived regularly: 2006 2007 2008 2009

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missing the Alt-gr key combinations. Standard is to use blue for them, which is given to another key, and there's other errors

Alt-Gr combinations are given in the upper-right in Blue. unfortunately, this keyboard leaves out all but one Alt-Gr combination (and gives it on the wrong key!), instead implying that Alt-Gr does what is in fact done by a dead key. Plus, two dead keys are missing. A and E are going to be very crowded, but not much we can do if we want to show what the keyboard actually does. Adam Cuerden ^talk 16:09, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What it should have:

TOP ROW

Top left key: Add (in blue) the Alt-Gr combination °. It is not the same as the ° in green, as the one in green is a dead key, and this one is not. It may be underlined. (as per the Italian I° abbreviation)

4: Alt-Gr 4 is labelled as giving the € symbol. In fact, this should be Alt-Gr 5.

7890: Alt-Gr combinations are { [ ] } respectively.

Ö (right of 7890) Alt-Gr is \

SECOND ROW:

Alt-gr Q is @
Alt-gr E is € again.
É, Ý, Ú, Í, and Ó need recoloured and moved downwards: they are not Alt-Gr combinations, but dead-key ones.
Ê Û, Î, and Ô (no circumflexed Y) are created by a deadkey in the third row. Another colour will need to be chosen for them. Also È Ù Ì Ò by ANOTHER missing deadkey, so yet another colour.
The rightmost key in this row, (' ?), has an Alt-Gr of ~.

THIRD ROW:

Â and À is missing from the A key, see above.
The key two keys right of L is written almost completely wrong. The dead key ´ is all that is shown (and will need recoloured to match the new colour of É, etc.) shift-´ gives ' (single quote), and Alt-Gr ´ gives the dead key ^ which combines to give Â Ê Î Ô Û
The far right key (+ *) has yet another dead key: Alt-Gr gives ` which combines as À È Ì Ò Ù

FOURTH ROW

Far left key, (< >): Alt-Gr gives the pipe, |
Alt-Gr M gives µ

As you can see, this is pretty much as wrong as it could be. Adam Cuerden ^talk 16:07, 19 November 2007 (UTC) [reply]

The evidence for the metric expansion of space

Image to be improved
Image to take elements from
Image of Earth to be used

Article:Big Bang

Request: This didn't go over well.

Here's what we need, I think:

black background
explosion from center outward
large universal no circle-and-slash symbol in background: with black, probably best to be very dark red, but still clearly prominent
three galaxies instead of the stars shown in the explosion with arrows showing they came from the center, colored yellow, orange, and red as shown
the planet Earth where the stick-figure is
important: the distance between Earth and the yellow galaxy should be the same as from Earth to the red galaxy

I think that will do it.

When ready, please revert the edit above and this one please. Thank you. Biochem67 17:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Had a quick go at it, might be easier to start in SVG so changes are easy, and then at the end, use the correct earth image/ galaxy images in a PNG image > Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 17:59, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I don't think that such an image is really appropriate. The cartoonish "circle-slash" does not seem to me to be appropriate for an encyclopedia. ScienceApologist 15:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well then, while we are here at the lab, what would you suggest?—Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 20:57, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think such an image is necessary or even desirable. ScienceApologist (talk) 17:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does an internationally recognized symbol seem cartoonish? Biochem67 14:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it needed to have a prohibitory sign anyway? Couldn't the "didn't happen" part e included in the caption? 68.39.174.238 00:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Placeholder for book Covers

My idea for the placeholder (Photoshop)
Convert to SVG
SVG lightening

Article(s): Book infobox thing

Request: We need a placeholder for books without covers. I'm not good at talking using a keyboards so that's all I'm going to say.

Opinions: In my own opinion, I think this could work.

I uploaded an SVG, so it can be easily edited, and unlimited scaling obviously. I added a small border to the left part to make it seem more natural and changed the text to mimic current placeholders. > Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 17:45, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I hope see this in empty infoboxes soon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacklemon67 (talk • contribs) 02:11, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO it looks a little too much like a DVD cover. Here are some ideas: Make the binding smaller/marrower (it looks like a mechanical part right now), make the color yellow-ish paper-white, make the surface matte (i.e. no dark-to-light to transition, it makes it look shiny like plastic), and make the corners smaller (less rounded). I'm not good at editing vector images myself—I hope you don't mind me chiming in nonetheless... -- Ddxc 08:49, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tried to make it lighter, just lessened opacity...