User:Ojw/Baseball

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[edit] Image:Baseball lf.png

Your new lf image looks great -- much improved over the jpg version. Are you planning to use the suggestions I made at Wikipedia:Image recreation requests? And are you planning to make versions for the other positions? I hope I wasn't too harsh about your pics. I try to make my feedback useful, but I don't want to give you the impression that your work is unappreciated. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 16:27, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'll write replies here, as it keeps the "flow of conversation"

1. Yes I'll create the rest of the pics. I'll do a few more tests, and once we get a sample pic that everyone likes, then I'll create the whole set
2. They will be PNG, and they'll have the same filenames as the old set. It's no problem to export either, and there's enough flat colour that PNG should compress well.
   • Oops, the old ones are JPEGS. I'll change the links when we upload new images.
3. I'll change the background to brown, as soon as I can find a decent brown in OpenOffice. Any idea of RGB values which would look good?
   • I like the background for the 1B, 2B, 3B, and SS. I think the bg should all be that color. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 16:09, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
   • That's "yellow 6". The thumbnail doesn't seem to be updating in my browser, but the image has changed. Does it still look as good with a lot of yellow-6?
     • No. Hm. Try RGB(128,64,0). See what you think. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 20:10, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
       • OK, well I do do colour at work, so I should be able to make an attempt at reading the colour off a picture from an actual Baseball game. Let's call it (220,169,62) for convenience...
       • Although the dirt around the feet of that guy pitching is (185,104,75), which is this colour -- we're not favouring some particular team by choosing "their" colour dirt are we? Ojw 20:25, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
       • This is the brown you suggested (128,64,0)... actually that's quite a nice colour isn't it? although (185,104,75) is more dirt-like, while (128,64,0) is 'stronger', for stylised graphics
4. Text:
   1. move everything onto the playing field,
   2. move things at the edge onto the white-area and make the text black,
   3. extend the playing field using little field-coloured bumps so that the text is on playing-field colour
      • Looks like we're going for (1), with (3) for the catcher...
5. What's the shortstop's position like? I've put him a bit away from the "straight line" path between 2 and 3 base just to make the labels distinct, but I gather he moves around quite a bit too... We're not misrepresenting his job by putting SS so far out from the action are we?
6. Highlighting a position - what do people think about the radial-transparency circle? Any other ideas?
   • The circle is very nice, IMHO. It should be the most obvious thing on the image. (What I mean is, right now, the center portion, being a brown-yellow, draws the eye more than the circle.) – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 16:09, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
     • Red seems to showup better now that we've got the brown background...
     • And back to yellow for the dark-brown backgrounds...
7. Critisism is good - it shows that the image is important enough for people to care.

PNG images: left centre right 1st 2nd 3rd shortstop pitcher catcher