AR795 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:53 pm
I will give it a try, but I believe this will make the scene overly-blue since blue is already a very prominent color in the design.
Perhaps you are right
,
maybe it's just my thinking, since we are talking about an experiment,
I see every step forward as a unique move that can branch out in every direction,
So I find it is highly worth it to see a couple varieties of shades, colour combinations, etc
and who knows
maybe we'll begin to spot the trail of the hidden treasure we are after.
AR795 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:53 pm
I did try those screenshots and many others as well for the cover photo, they are all excellent work, however with the current design screenshots don't blend well as cover photos with the background. What I had in mind was a photo-realistic rendering of some FreeCAD project. I did search the forum, but (correct me if I am wrong) there are very few renderings of this type. The closest I was able to find was this image:
Most points made here are also an excellent opportunity for design challenge, and also reminded me of the fact that free-cad lacks the ability to take pictures with a transparent background. In the Tool -> Save Picture -> Extend -> Image property Background -> Transparent. This will be great for isolating everything in the background cloud colour. Currently it still takes them with a black rendered overlay.
chrisb wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:13 pm
Yes, ppemawm's models are always spectacular.
I really think we should have a bank of priceless screenshots of all the great projects, The volume of Freecad's master projects have dramatically improved and increased alot. Freecad community can be proud of that.
bitacovir wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:09 pm
I would like some spectacular image from a FreeCAD project rather than the gear render, at the top of the webpage. As background image.
Maybe you can use some screenshot from here
This also a great idea to expose the magestic projects accomplished indeed and persuades any new incomer 'right on the spot' of the seriousness that Freecad can acheive. Indeed.
We can play with the gear in different ways, for example, a smaller size of the gear perhaps, and used it as strategic icons for example, in a situation of bullet points in a certain page of the website (just throwing and Idea out there,) but there can be many other ways of playing with it. Let's not discard that idea right now.