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[edit] Image request svg

I see you made an svg of the image request image. Looks great - thanks! --Anthony5429 06:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. (I seem to be doing a lot of SVG replacements lately--it's one of the least inflammatory things you can do!) The hard part is going to be replacing all the .png versions. Even after doing all the templates, there seem to be a bazillion of 'em left. I'm sure there's an automated method that I'm not aware of. Dyfsunctional 19:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image possibly unfree

I've raised some questions about your image Image:Xyz boxer.jpg at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images#November 16. Please provide any information you can there. Thanks. Chick Bowen 03:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I've left some info at that page and on the image's description page regarding the source of the background image, Image:Right-left01.png, which is purported to be "free use." Dyfsunctional 19:06, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. We'll keep working on it. Chick Bowen 20:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I found the original here--clearly not free. Would you be willing to create a replacement? Perhaps with one of the images here? If not, it's not a problem--I'm sure the article can be illustrated with something else. Thanks again. Chick Bowen 20:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Nice detective work. It's a pity; I liked that image (and it was no easy task cloning all the wrinkles in the trunks as I recall!). I'm going to try and whip something up along the same lines. Thanks. Dyfsunctional 21:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I've created and uploaded a new, PD image. Dyfsunctional 21:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footprints (poem)

If it's not on your watchlist, thought you might like to see my resp to your good comment on Talk:Footprints_(poem). "alyosha" (talk) 20:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frutiger

I don't know enough about fonts to argue on that basis. However, current image searches are yielding some controversial evidence that lends credence to your objections. http://artamerica.com/gd/promen-1.shtml shows another artist as the author of the image I am using. Furthermore, http://www.bigbus.vispa.com/portfolio/work/popart/three.html seems to suggest another set of paintings may lay claim to the title I am using on the fair use images. I may have to remove that image out of concern for proper citation. TonyTheTiger 21:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I've done some searching and found that the artist is indeed Steve Kaufman, who describes himself on his web site as "Andy Warhol's former protege." Coincidentally, I found this image on Kaufman's site: [1]. So yes, the image has to be removed from the soup can article at least. Dyfsunctional 16:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great flag artwork

Hi Dyfsunctional. Excellent work on the flags!I am trying to make this flag into a graphic that captures a bit of the rough/looseness to it. Do you use Illustrator? Thanks. JimCApitol3 22:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I have used Illustrator; I prefer to use Corel Draw. If you're trying to capture the spirit of the historic flag, I suppose you could monkey with those stars a bit--rotate them, randomize the angles and the sizes, etc. There's obviously no really good image of the modern version on WP. You may also want to adjust the colors to look more "flaggy" and less "screeny." I would suggest something like RGB 19,116,180 for the blue and 10,117,47 for the green. Dyfsunctional 18:40, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've seen your creation of DPP's flag. Would you please create the flag of New Party (Taiwan), and other parties? It'll look like this.--Jerry 21:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd be happy to. Is it just the yellow field with the blue characters? Dyfsunctional 03:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
OK, I've done it. The new image is here. I've also gone ahead and re-done the logo image, which is now an SVG here. Dyfsunctional 22:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!--Jerry 22:53, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but can you re-do this image and make it an SVG?--Jerry 22:57, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Can you also upload this image for me? Because I don't know how to properly upload it w/o running into the copyright/non-free/fair-use issue.--Jerry 23:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I've re-done the TSU logo here. While I was at it, I did the final one, that of People First Party here. As far as the TSU flag goes, I don't know how to do the transfer from the Chinese WP other than saving the image and re-uploading it. Of course, the best thing to do would be to do the flag as a new SVG and make it public domain. I would do this if I could get a clearer shot of the calligraphy a the bottom of the flag. Dyfsunctional 17:58, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
I, Jerry, hereby award you The Graphic Designer's Barnstar for your great flag artwork.--Jerry 17:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. I don't know what's wrong with this flag, but I think it needs to be re-done, can you help? Thanks.--Jerry 15:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I did the flag as an SVG, found here. It's the closest I could come to the orginal jpeg, which unfortunately is not a great source to begin with, especially since I don't read or write Chinese! If you had a bigger, clearer image I could do more with that. Dyfsunctional 16:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

That's good enough, thanks!--Jerry 20:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dyfsunctional, can you help uploading this logo onto the English Wikipedia? I don't know if it needs to be re-done or not. It is the logo of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union in Taiwan. Thanks!--Jerry 20:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Did you mean you want me to re-draw it? I'd be glad to if I knew what the characters were supposed to look like. I don't have Chinese character support on the computer I'll be using for the next few days, but next week I'll be on a different computer from which I can get the characters from the NPSU article here. I'll get to it when I can. Dyfsunctional (talk) 18:48, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I did what I could and placed it here. The font for the Chinese writing is all wrong because it's based on vanilla Arial Unicode MS, and I wasn't sure whether to do the swirly things as gradients or some kind of feathers. It's really as good as it's going to get until we find a better source image. I'd be happy to "accurize" the logo when we have something larger and clearer to base it on. Dyfsunctional (talk) 22:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much.--Jerry 01:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Peacock}}

The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
I, CA387, hereby award Dyfsunctional the Graphic Designer's Barnstar for his work on Template:Peacock.

[edit] Could you change make an svg version of this?

After seeing how well you did the Wehrmacht commander-in-chief flag, I would like to ask you if you can make an svg image of this

Hitler's personal standard.
Hitler's personal standard.

. I've made a number of svg flags and roundels but this one looks difficult, but seeing the other work you've done, I bet you could do it better than I could. User:R-41

I'd be glad to do it; I just don't know if I'll have the time anytime soon. I will get to it when I can.
On another note, I've noticed the "color correction" you've done on the 30's Wehrmacht flag and many of the other Nazi-era flags here. I think most of the WP flag purists would disagree with what you've done. Real flags are made with pigments and dyes applied to cloth, not with photons on a computer monitor. RGB red is a very unrealistic (and irreproducable) color unless it's a picture of a traffic signal. Take a look at any modern national flag here that uses red as a main color and you'll see that every one of them has some kind of toned-down version of RGB red, usually less saturated and with the tiniest touch of brown. In most of my flag artwork I've tried to emulate that. I would beg that you reconsider, but stop short of reverting without hearing your side of it. Dyfsunctional 15:11, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually that was one question I was thinking myself, sorry about the colour change. Its just that I can't find any information anywhere about the colour shade of red used on Third Reich flags. Thanks for the advice. I assume the red would be the same as the red used on both the Imperial and Weimar German flags. Personally, I found the colour shade you used to not have enough red in it. I have tried to change the Third Reich flags in the past to having a darker, more realistic hue, but I don't know it there was any official hue for them. However when I have attempted to due so, sometimes one display box shows the darker red and another one shows the brighter red, I've tried restarting the computer to see if it needed a refresh, but it stayed the same. I'll try again. Personally I think the shade of red used on the Imperial and Weimar flags was probably used on the Nazi flag (as the Imperial flag flew beside it). However many pictures have shown a brighter red (I'll admit not as bright as what I've changed them to, but still bright). User:R-41
Third Reich flags are closely aligned with the Imperial flags as those are what Hitler claimed got the colours from, so I'd sum up by saying that the hue should probably the hue of the Imperial flags, or a bright but not too bright red. Again sorry about the colour change, I've just been trying to make the Third Reich flags synonomous with each other in shade, but thanks for telling me about the difference in RGB colours and cloth colours. I will change the colour immediately to the shade of red used on the Imperial German flag. Please keep in touch, you are a good SVG artist and wikipedia sure needs you to replace the antiquated pngs and jpg files.User:R-41

Here's a more concrete example of what I'm talking about. I've taken the reds from various national flags on Wikipedia (I deliberatedly avoided Canada, since that's one you've worked on before) and made a little table for comparison:

RGB red
France Germany Iraq Italy Japan Mexico Morocco Portugal Spain UK US
My preferred red

Other than France, most of the flags have that dull, brownish red I was talking about. Most countries have codes explicitly describing the colors using Pantone matching, etc., and the serious flag buffs at Wikipedia have heeded this. Nazi Germany existed long before digital monitors (and maybe before Pantone matching, I don't know), so without having an actual flag to look at in person, we're kind of left on our own. For the sake of consistentcy, I've tried to keep my basic colors in line with what other people here are using. Hope this helps. Dyfsunctional 19:08, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I followed your advice for the shade of red, but I accidently thought the bright red for the French flag looked RGB, oops, well anyway I reverted the edit. I've changed other flags to having a standard red which I thought was acceptable. Most of the Nazi propaganda, armbands and stuff in Nazi Germany showed a bright red, but this may have been for simplicity. Flags that are flown usually need a deeper red, I believe, to avoid fading. For now, I would assume that the flag would follow the shade of the Weimar and Imperial flags before it, since they probably used the same companies to produce the official flags of Germany. Still, for the current German flag there is no sure answer by wikipedia to what the shade of red is, the one that is posted now, I don't think follows official standards but the red looks right to me (one reported official red looked too dull and almost greyish). User:R-41

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