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XP theme for jwm (1.0.5 only)
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Alienx
 Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
I propose a third variant to XP theme 
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BarryK
Puppy Master  Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 6856 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
Looks nice. I'm downloading it now, will line em all up, see what gets into 1.0.6! |
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pakt
 Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden |
After twisting and turning the original litrix image any number of times, I managed to get this result. It is within the 50KB limit I set (in fact it is exactly 50KB ) and has the least number of compression artifacts I could get within that file size.
If a better quality image is desired (less than or equal to 50KB in size), we should try to find a similar image but with fewer nuances of color. The sky in this image shifts from dark blue to light blue making compression distortion especially noticeable. Is the result good enough or should we look for another image?
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Alienx
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
WONDERFUL work, pakt ! 
can you teach us how to do it ? some guidelines ? please !!!!!
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pakt
Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden |
Thanks for the praise, Alienx . I'm just sorry I couldn't make the image a little sharper, but that would have made the file size a lot bigger.
I am definitly not an expert on image manipulation, and this is the first time I used the Gimp, so it took some experimentation to figure out how to do things. It turned out that I got the best result by simple means. This is what I ended up doing. After saving Barry's original litrix image to harddisk and starting The Gimp with the saved image: - From menu: 'Image' -> 'Scale Image...' and under 'Quality', set 'Interpolation' to 'Cubic (Best)'. Then changed the image from 1024x768 to 800x600 and clicked 'Scale'. - From menu: 'Tools' -> 'Color Tools' -> 'Levels' changed Gamma from 1.00 to 1.10 then clicked 'OK'. (I have found that increasing Gamma instead of increasing brightness and/or lowering contrast to lighten an image often gives better results.) - From menu: 'File' -> 'Save as...' -> 'litrix_lean.jpg'. Clicked 'Save' and the 'Save as JPEG' window popped up (here I could set the JPEG image 'quality', ie, how much of the image detail to keep - lower 'Quality' = less detail = more distortion). - Clicked 'Show Preview in image window' then 'Advanced Options'. Here I could see what the 'File size' would be when changing 'Quality' (default=85) while at the same time seeing the effect of the Quality setting on the image. I found that by setting Quality to 68, I could get the File size down to 50.0 kB without too much distortion. Clicked on 'OK' - that's it
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pakt
Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden |
May I offer one last revision of the image? You will probably be tired of this wallpaper by now , but by allowing the image file size to increase by about 30kB, this image is sharper and, IMHO, more pleasing to the eye.
(For the curious: I sharpened the original image (factor=1), lowered contrast (from 50 to 45), increased gamma (from 1.00 to 1.10) then saved it at 800x600 with JPEG quality=85)
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Alienx
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
great job pakt, thanks for the tips
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gliezl
 Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 322 Location: Manila |
is it possible for the JWM start button to have a different color such as olive green? As an ordinary user, can i change that? _________________ "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." ~Margaret Fuller |
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