Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop/Archive/Feb 2011
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Europe Map

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Map of EU and deals with neighbors
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Map showing EU and ENP policies
Article(s): Future enlargement of the European Union Request: Please convert these images to svg format. Rctycoplay (talk) 21:05, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
Coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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This image requires SVGification
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This image may help as a reference....
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...and this image may also help (but it might be heraldically wrong - particularly the crown)....
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...and finally this image may also help (for the supporter)
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Bull supporter
Article(s): Mecklenburg-Strelitz on English WP; can be used for others too.
Request: SVGification. 86.159.104.235 (talk) 23:25, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): I've uploaded a bull supporter. - SSJ t 18:59, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
European neighborhood initiatives

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The European Union and its neighbors
Article(s): Eurosphere, Greater Europe, European integration
Request: Convert it to SVG, and explain in the legend what dark blue (Switzerland and Norway) represents. 129.10.230.225 (talk) 21:25, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Simple legends and captions should not be included in graphics. They should be moved to the image description pages and the captions in the articles. Kaldari (talk) 21:07, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Resolved
Julius Chambers

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redraw as svg
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SVG
Article(s): Julius Chambers
Request: Please redraw as a svg. P. S. Burton (talk) 20:25, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Jovianeye.
Done --JovianEye (talk) 04:32, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Perfect. Thank you very much. P. S. Burton (talk) 09:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
22nd op group

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redrawn SVG
Article(s): 22d Operations Group
Request: Please redraw as svg. P. S. Burton (talk) 09:44, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done Jon C (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Great. Thank you very much. P. S. Burton (talk) 10:19, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
"New" icon

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A little "new" icon
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A bunch to get the conversation rolling.
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Generation 3 (may need to refresh browser).
Template: {{New icon}} Template:New icon
Request: I just made a little template for marking things as "new" (for highlighting new instructional screencasts on a page full of them). This was the only relevant icon I could find. It's good, but it looks bad at small sizes. I'm hoping someone can create a version that is simpler and looks better at 35px or even smaller. Thanks! Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 03:11, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Not sure which pages/dimensions you're doing this for, I quickly threw a couple together to get the conversation started. Is there any of them that you think would be a good lead for the final design? Jon C (talk) 03:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! The page I want it for now is here, although I think it would be handy elsewhere too. I think it ought to be bright, contrasty, and solidly colorful, along the lines of the stereotypical "new" star/explosion icon, kinda like this, and also have more points than the stars you drafted, like at least 7. I think the current one would work well if the text was a solid without an outline, or something a little more optimized for small size. The size of your drafts are perfect, I'd say.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 03:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Take 2. I was going to insert one into your page to see how it works, but I'm not sure how to do that (template and all). Jon C (talk) 04:03, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- PS, your second link killed my eyes :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkwchui (talk • contribs) 04:04, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm. The red-on-gray is tough to read at the proper small size:
Maybe if the text was horizontal and a little bit wider? And sorry to spring that gif on you. I looked for something closer to the archetype in my mind, but that was the best I found on a quick Google search.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 04:10, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm. The red-on-gray is tough to read at the proper small size:
- Take 3. I've overwritten the last version with larger (but lighter) font - I think it's readable at the small size now (it wasn't before). I prefer the slanted text; the slant and the red will help catch attention on an otherwise horizontal and black/blue/white environment. Taken the liberty to change the template, and it looks sorta OK in the page you've mentioned. I'm not ready to make neon-green/party pink on Wikipedia :) Jon C (talk) 04:34, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! I like it. It's a huge improvement over the other one. And don't worry about the colors; I can probably figure out how to change them to hot pink and neon green on my own. :D --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 04:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Done Glad to be of help. Jon C (talk) 05:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- I still don't understand for what this template is usefull. Explain it to a moderate english speaker. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 14:56, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been collecting instructional videos for helping newcomers learn how to edit: Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Resources#Videos. The gallery is getting large. The template is just a way to insert a small image into the gallery to a video as being a new addition. That way, if you've seen the older ones already, it's easy to spot what's new.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
British Commandos Patch

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svg version
Article(s): British Commandos
Request: Redraw as a .SVG. Vearthy (talk) 00:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by Orionist.
Done I was not sure of the background color so I searched for similar images, and all of them had black backgound, so I made it black. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 10:52, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- Nicely done.Jon C (talk) 22:35, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'm glad you find it so. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 18:29, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- I tried my hands on this and gave up on the (irregular) feathers... did you manually pen Bezier curves for all of them, or is there a different way of going about this? Jon C (talk) 18:52, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- You're right. I also used only a few points to keep the curves smooth, and tried to make opposite curves of different feathers go somehow parallel to one another. Once I figured out the first couple, the rest became much easier. -- Orionist ★ talk 19:55, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- That's great! Thanks. Vearthy (talk) 13:30, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- You're right. I also used only a few points to keep the curves smooth, and tried to make opposite curves of different feathers go somehow parallel to one another. Once I figured out the first couple, the rest became much easier. -- Orionist ★ talk 19:55, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- Nicely done.Jon C (talk) 22:35, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Dervish

Article(s): Dervish
Request: svgify... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 17:01, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done - Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry I missed this, thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:44, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Latgalian Wikipedia logos

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Old logo (png)
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New logo (png)
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New logo (svg) -
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Original globe logo (svg)
Article(s): can be used in article Latgalian Wikipedia
Request: Please, redraw them into SVG --Dark Eagle (talk) 17:04, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Does anyone know what font the Wikipedia texts are in? Jon C (talk) 18:39, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- Yep its called Linux Libertine. Its free open source and you can download it here. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks Fallschirmjäger. I've given this a stab, and included the file up there, but the logo is one of those cases that breaks upon opening/saving in Illustrator. I've tried running it through Quibik's gradient simplify python code, and it does not seem to affect the result in this case. An Inkscape editor may need to replace the globe, also linked. Hey, at least the type is in the right place! Jon C (talk) 04:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- check out text "VikipedejA Breivuo eņciklopedeja" if it's necessary ;) --Dark Eagle (talk) 14:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Done - I've worked on your logo and used Inkscape which has to be used with troublesome SVGs made in it, although I prefer Illustrator, to sort out the globe and match the style of the text with the standard format for Wikipedia logos. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:56, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Maybe you can do text size as on Linhuanian logo? And in text is 1 grammar mistake "VikipedejA Breivuo eņciklopedeja". Tanks --Dark Eagle (talk) 20:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. I've fixed the spelling in the text now, adding the ņ. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 11:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, now logo is good for creating Wikipedia... =) --Dark Eagle (talk) 13:38, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. I've fixed the spelling in the text now, adding the ņ. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 11:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Maybe you can do text size as on Linhuanian logo? And in text is 1 grammar mistake "VikipedejA Breivuo eņciklopedeja". Tanks --Dark Eagle (talk) 20:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Pedro Álvares Cabral

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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
Article(s): Pedro Álvares Cabral
Request: Hello! Please, remove the background of the picture to the left and make it translucid and upload it over the picture to the right. Thank you very much, Lecen (talk) 13:51, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Request taken by Fallschirmjäger. 19:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Done: New version uploaded over file. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:29, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
- It's perfect! Thank you very much! --Lecen (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Biting Image

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Please clean up this picture and replace the globe with
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that one, so he bite this star instead the globe.
Article(s): to my user page
Request: per above. don't replace the pictures, save the finish work to [[File:Biting FL.jpg]]
. Thank you. ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion: But how is this useful to en.wikipedia? Jon C (talk) 18:44, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- I knew that someone would ask this. But I need it for my user page only, please!-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Great Pumpkin (are you the one Linus waits for every year?) - I took a further look at the images. Here at illustration workshop most of us work with vector graphics, whereas over at the photography workshop they are experts at raster manipulations. Given this is a clone out / paste kinda task, and no higher resolution is needed, you're more likely to find someone who can help you over there. Jon C (talk) 03:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- OK, I will try there, though I don't know who Linus is.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 14:53, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- It's a reference to Charlie Brown & Peanuts :) Jon C (talk) 20:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, now I know who you mean :D. No I am not the one :D.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 21:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Great Pumpkin (are you the one Linus waits for every year?) - I took a further look at the images. Here at illustration workshop most of us work with vector graphics, whereas over at the photography workshop they are experts at raster manipulations. Given this is a clone out / paste kinda task, and no higher resolution is needed, you're more likely to find someone who can help you over there. Jon C (talk) 03:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Empire of Brazil

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Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, 1846.
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Emperor Pedro II of Brazil as an infant, c.1830.
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Empress Teresa Cristina, 1846.
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Afonso, Prince Imperial, 1846.
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Afonso, Prince Imperial, 1845.
Article(s): Empire of Brazil
Request: Please, remove the frame and background of all pictures and make it translucid. The first painting of Prince Afonso already has a .png version [1] as well as the one with Pedro II as an infant [2], so you may simply upload the new pictures over both. Thank you very much, Lecen (talk) 22:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): For these pictures you should go to the photography workshop. This is the illustrator workshop. Wereldburger758 (talk) 09:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- Really? Ok, I made a request there. Thank you! --Lecen (talk) 14:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Signature

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Please redraw as a SVG
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SVG
Article(s): L. Ron Hubbard
Request: Please redraw as a SVG. P. S. Burton (talk) 19:58, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): Done Jon C (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- Great. Thank you very much! P. S. Burton (talk) 23:24, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Periodic table image

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Periodic table discovery periods
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A SVG base to start from
Article(s): Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
Request: Add the elements beyond Rg (i.e. Cn, Uut, Uuq, Uup, Uuh, Uus, Uuo), with Cn and Uuq going into the 1950-1999 period and, I suppose, the rest going into a new "2000+" period. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 04:44, 2 February 2011 (UTC) (This seems to be one of the last un-updated periodic table images. If there are any more like this one, please fix them too! Lanthanum-138 (talk) 04:47, 2 February 2011 (UTC))
Graphist opinion(s): I think a vector version is useful (the original is a screenshot), and added link to a SVG periodic table. But I recommend against adding the unconfirmed elements to the table. Jon C (talk) 05:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- Alternatively, one may not want to do this as an image, but instead through the periodic table template. Jon C (talk) 20:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Or the compact one. Jon C (talk) 20:51, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Request taken by jkwchui.; ongoing progress here.
- Or the compact one. Jon C (talk) 20:51, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Done Lanthanum-138 did all the hard work. It looks great! Do you mind if I modify the colors to something that suggest a pattern (e.g., red->orange->green->blue)? The current colors as it is sorta random (looking through the code it seems the original author simply picked between "CC" "00" and "FF" ;) ). Also, I find the short template looks better than the one currently in article - the readers don't really need to know the extra details like group# within that context. Jon C (talk) 21:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- See the following, using both the color-wheel and saturation as guidance (the newly discovered elements are "brighter/fresher" than the older ones):
Template:Periodic table discovery en
Question: I've tried a variety of things, but don't seem to be able to get the dashed box to go away. Can someone versed in Wikitables help? Jon C (talk) 19:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Done Done. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 09:15, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- Sweetness and light. I'll mark this one as resolved. Jon C (talk) 18:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)