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I uploaded Media:Wheeler_experiment_problems.svg and thought I must have uploaded the wrong one because there is an intrusive inclusion of one of the graphic elements. There should be four things that look a little like

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A fifth one shows up when the image appears on a page. Downloading that image I get a png with the intrusive element in it. So I assume that there is an on-the-fly method of turning svg images into png images for display on web pages.

The extra image is very intrusive and reduces the explanatory value of the diagram.

That problem disappeared after I reuploaded a vanilla svg version, but the text at the top is still spilling over its intended bounds. The size of the font must be going wrong.Patrick Edwin Moran 23:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely, it shows up correctly when coded as "media" above, but see the part at the end of the top green line. Any way to fix this? Patrick Edwin Moran 05:51, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem seems to be with the freeware available, Inkscape. There are two versions of SVG, one is Inkscape-specific, and one is vanilla SVG. Using vanilla works better. Patrick Edwin Moran 17:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People are asked to use the SVG format rather than GIF or other low bandwidth applications, but the available information on how to use the freeware program Inkscape is poor. The "book" about Inkscape on Wikipedia is a bad joke. The help file for Inkscape doesn't give responsive help. It happens that I have SVG software available from my university, but that route is not available to the majority of people. I think it is unrealistic/impolite to give people wolf tickets for uploading files in other formats that somebody thinks could be supplied in SVG format unless there are adequate means to supply those files. Patrick Edwin Moran 23:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi sorry for the lack of replys. As you found out saving the file as "plain svg" tends to work better then "inkscape svg". There is currently an ongoing discussion about writing a SVG help page (should be on Help:SVG at some point in the future) but that project has just got of the ground. The Text problem is probably due to issues between how the wikimedia software interprets the font (compared to how every other program interprets it) this is a quite common bug and can sometimes be fixed but switching to one of the supported fonts (info on help:SVG). I'll take a look at the file and see if I can fix the last problem. /Lokal_Profil 00:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Text no longer crosses the image elements but it might be a tad small instead. /Lokal_Profil 00:49, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When moving SVG files between platforms, I found text to be an issue, more specifically the non-availability of a common font. Somehow I feel unable to blame that on Inkscape. -- Klaus with K (talk) 20:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The typical way to correct text problems is simply to convert them to paths (ctrl-shift-c) before saving the image. Technically speaking, text rendering is left at the discretion of the rendering client - most Linux systems (including the Wikimedia servers) use an abnormally wide font, which will mess up text positioning.

As a side note, I have never experienced any problems with Inkscape, apart from using the blur property, which does not get rendered by non-Inkscape clients and thus would not work on Wikimedia. INVERTED (talk) 15:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed your file. How do you like it? --Shandris (talk) 19:15, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: I recently changed the camera body, the monitor AND editing software... too much of a change in one week and I cannot get used to the new feel. Take a look, are the settings OK? The first pic was taken in broad daylight (see file history for the original camera .jpg), the second - inside a shady courtyard (also on a sunny day). Files are straight from Bibble Raw, shrunk to 1/2 of original pixel count.NVO (talk) 08:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC) Graphist opinion:[reply]

• I corrected the perspective on your first image, second one looks really good visually. --Mozillaman (talk) 17:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): Digitalis purpurea and w:fr:Digitale pourpre

Request: I found the DOF of this picture excellent -showing a nice plant in its natural environment- and i would like to improve the quality of this picture. Is it possible to reduce the noise? -- Guérin Nicolas ^(messages) 16:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I blurred the background to bring the flowers out: Image:Vallée du Marcadau 100 new.JPG How does it look? Maybe a crop would also be good? (I'm new on Commons, so I couldn't replace the original). Tadpole9 (talk) 02:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the modified image looks very unnaturally (like a collage of image of the plant and image of mountains). Distant objects should be blurred more than close objects. Anyway Guérin Nicolas asked for reducing the noise and I think that there is not much noise (worth of reducing) in the image. --Pabouk (talk) 10:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's interesting also to have this image with a blurred background, if you want to focus on the plant only. But effectively, i wanted something else: it's difficult to identify a plant in its natural environment, so a clear background is an asset to show it. I would like to propose such picture for COM:QPC, that's why before i would like to know if it's possible to reduce the global noise of such picture (background and foreground) to meet the Commons:Image guidelines. Thanks. Guérin Nicolas ^(messages) 15:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it was worth a try. I'm not sure what you mean by "noise". Tadpole9 (talk) 17:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, the image does not seem particularly noisy to me. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now, I uploaded a derivative image, in which I emphasized the plant as shown above. This could meet Guérin Nicolas' needs, doesn't it?--Flekstro (talk) 10:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Central Region
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  Pit area in central Douglas
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  Douglas overview
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  Overview of the northeast area including Ramsey
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  Overview of the Ramsey area
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Article(s):

Request: -- I want to take all the images above (all members of Category:Snaefell mountain course circuit maps) and link them together. I have two prototypes of the Douglas overview image with some JS added. One, [3] uses SVG links to change the current image. However, that system requires that I either have a central JS file for quite a bit of code (several functions) or copy the code to all 21 files. I am NOT doing the latter.

The other option requires that I combine the images into a single image. Each "image" becomes a layer. This can be seen at [4]. However, even though that file only has layers for the Douglas area (just 6 of them, not 20), its code is very slow as it takes time for Firefox (or whatever) to move the layers around and change z-orders as needed. (The z-order is used to highlight links to other maps in both systems.)

Not only do I need a place to put the JS code, but then I need a way to display it. I am told that <embed> and <object> tags are not allowed. Yet they would be ideal unless IFRAMES are allowed. Simply adding a link to the image won't work as no one would reach it and see the interactive stuff. Will (Talk - contribs) 01:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTW: Two samples with code are below. Neither has been uploaded to Commons with code and won't be until the above problems are resolved.

• Version of the Douglas Area overview that requires the code to either be copied to each file or a central JS server
• All in one file that incorporates all Douglas area maps, but is very sluggish in Firefox 3.0.3. It would be even worse with all 21 maps.

Will (Talk - contribs) 02:49, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Ever think about using an imagemap? Old-school, I know, but it could work. --J.smith (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How would an imagemap help? It won't let me switch maps. It won't help me embed the map. I also have overlapping regions. (That is why the rects used to detect the mouse don't have a fill.) Will (Talk - contribs) 21:19, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, it wouldn't be exactly the same, but it gives you alternate way of presenting the maps given the tools we have here. --J.smith (talk) 08:39, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, can somebody detour the record label like those at Image:ListenToTheMockingBird.gif? Waylon (talk) 19:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, how about this? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I note a possible issue with the licensing, though: you've tagged the original image with {{PD-US-no notice}}, but it actually contains text that says "LABEL COPYRIGHT 1936 BY BRUNSWICK RECORD CORP."(!). Assuming that indeed means what it appears to mean, and that we can't show the copyright wasn't renewed, it looks like the image would have to rest on the {{PD-ineligible}} claim alone. Which the presence of the notice also makes a bit less obvious than it would otherwise be — evidently at least somebody at some point believed the label to be eligible for copyright, if they bothered to print a notice. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for detouring. I think we should make a differnce between the label which is showed in this picture, and the picture itself. The picture itself is a scan, and I think a scan is absolutely ineligible for copyright, there's no creativity in this image. The label itself also contains IMO only information. Waylon (talk) 15:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the image is a slavish reproduction of a two-dimensional label, and thus (at least in the U.S., per Bridgeman v. Corel) not separately copyrightable. However, if the label itself passes the threshold of originality, and if the copyright has been renewed on time, then "Brunswick Record Corp." (or whoever has acquired the rights from them) own the copyright to both the label and any derivative of it.

Anyway, I've posted a question at Commons talk:Licensing#Text-only record label with copyright notice. Hopefully getting more eyes on the matter will help settle it one way or another. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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  111th US Senate

Article(s): 111th United States Congress

Request: Illinois needs to be changed to the lighter blue, because of Obama's resignation from the US Senate.-- Ctjf83 (talk) 03:10, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

• FYI - image is on wikipedia: [5] --J.smith (talk) 03:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): w:List of ships attacked by Somali pirates

Request: Should be marked with the locations of pirate attacks, color coded for sucessful and unsucessful ones  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 20:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Do you have coordinates of the locations or a link to a map for inspiration? I also think that a non-topographic map with country borders would be more suitable for the subject. bamse (talk) 15:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a link, but unfourtunately doesn't include the Maersk Alabama attack or the French ship attack either. Try searching that up? Deathgleaner (talk) 22:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here: http://toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport?article=List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates

P.S. Commons spam filter is a piece of crap. it blocks tinyurl and trim which make urls shorter. Fuck the fucking spam filter. spam filter creators: Remove it or your ass will be fucked.

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These images here were taken inside a house near a window. Obviously, windows will reflect light. Most of these exposures all have either raindrops on them or there is a camera lens. Please overwrite the old files when uploading, and be sure to upload under the same license. If anyone can remove these artefacts, that would be much appreciated. Thank you and happy holidays!

CommonMaster (talk) 03:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The full four parts of the panorama are below:

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Please stitch these together. You may also want to consider:

• Enhancing the colors, they seem quite dull; and/or
• Making some of the snow flakes smaller, or even cloning them out

Upload these files under File:Snowinseattle2008Pano1.jpg

Here you go. I uploaded it as File:Snowinseattle2008Pano-1.jpg (with a dash), which is what you'd used on the image pages. I hope it's ok. I think the snowflakes are fine, myself: the picture is about snow, surely it's only proper that it has some snow in it. :) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:44, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since there will be another panorama, I would recommend File:Snowinseattle2008Pano1.jpg. CommonMaster (talk) 04:24, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, reuploaded. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:28, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The full six parts of the panorama are below:

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CommonMaster (talk) 04:42, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really sure where you want to go with these. I stitched a quick rectilinear panorama out of these, like you could've taken yourself if you'd had a wide-angle lens. I could probably have made a slightly better job of it, but I wanted to first hear if it's anything like what you wanted. In particular, some of your images are a bit out of focus, so there are some blending lines between sharp and blurred areas that are pretty noticeable especially at full size. Some of those could probably be moved to slightly less conspicuous locations by doing the blending by hand, but that'd take some work and the result still wouldn't be perfect. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 14:37, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a "wide-angle lens", these photos were taken with a standard digital 5.0MPX camera. Upload the image to commons and I'll preview it. Common^MASTER (talk) 03:11, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's already here. :) File:Snowinseattle2008Pano2.jpg. (Ps. Thanks for the barnstar!) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

could you remove those streaks of light? Common^MASTER (talk) 03:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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  Rhineland-Palatinate State Police patch
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Article(s):

de:Polizei Rheinland-Pfalz

Request:

Please remove reflections and improve alignment -- Mattes (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I've made an svg Richardprins (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Berlin Police patch
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Article(s):

de: Berliner Polizei

Request:

Please remove reflections and improve alignment -- Mattes (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I've made an SVG Richardprins (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s):

after improvement: de:Polizei Brandenburg

Request:

Please remove reflections and improve alignment -- Mattes (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I've done an SVG. Inductiveload (talk) 06:36, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

great, but the typeface gotta be modified (look at the O). The background seems being too white, too. Someone does have provide a good photo for proper SVG adapation. --77.4.44.157 19:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 77.4.44.157, I don't think you understand. The heraldic stuffs are the official shields already on the commons. The font is like the emblem below. I think that the differences in font and whitecolor are because it's hard to seam an emblem perfectly.

In my opinion, the svg emblems are almost perfect. Richardprins (talk) 14:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Police patch
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Article(s):

after improvement: de:Polizei Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Request: Please remove reflections and improve alignment -- Mattes (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Have an SVG instead :-) Inductiveload (talk) 00:41, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great, but the SVG file seems to be too white (silver/grey is right I guess?!). There needs to be a good photograph or heraldric description for adoptation. --77.4.44.157 19:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 77.4.44.157, the same as above applies here. The heraldic stuffs are the official shields already on the commons. I think that the differences in whitecolor are because it's hard to seam an emblem perfectly.

In my opinion, the svg emblems are almost perfect and do not have to be changed. Richardprins (talk) 14:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  CoA of Penza Governorate
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  Flag of Penza
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  CoA of Penza
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Article(s): ru:Портал:Пензенская область - Russian wiki Penza oblast project and all related articles.

Request: Here are some pics releted to Penza oblast insignia. Please convert this files to svg. Here are some more flags and CoAs:

Category:Flags_of_cities_and_villages_of_Penza_Region

Category:Coats of arms of cities and villages of Penza Region

Usama (talk) 15:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

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  José de San Martín

Article(s): en:José de San Martín and many others

Request: I have replaced the small image available with a photo of the original portrait I took at the museum. Unfortunately, there was a disrupting light on the top part. Can this be fixed, so the image has an overall equal appearence? -- Belgrano (talk) 00:02, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I tried, but there's only so much I could do. I've uploaded the retouched version over your original, feel free to revert if you don't think it's an improvement. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 04:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  May Revolution

Article(s): es:Revolución de Mayo and related articles

Request: Like the one with San Martin, a photo took in the museum was slightly ruined by the reflection of the lights over it. Fortunately, the effect is lower here. -- Belgrano (talk) 19:35, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Hmm, the ideal way to deal with a photo like this would be to take another couple photos of the same painting from (very) different angles. The pictures can then be perspective corrected and combined. With just one image, it's quite a difficult problem to separate texture of the painting surface from texture intended by the artist, particularly with the standing man, where there's probably irrecoverable information loss. Some darkening may be able to reduce the visual impact. Dcoetzee (talk) 00:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to get to the place again and take more photos, but this may take a while (perhaps a pair of months, or even july if my year gets too busy). Feel free to archive this request, it would be better if I simply made a new one when and if I finally got such needed photos Belgrano (talk) 13:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here you go. It was a tough job, but I think it is an improvement. Julielangford

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  May Revolution

Could someone please convert this .png file to an .svg? Or, could anyone add the major political subdivisions (states, provinces, etc.) to this one? Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Ken_Thomas (talk) 05:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is one of this useful --SKvalen (talk) 18:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, no. See, I'm working on making a set of templates for creating range maps of animal species. Some species have worldwide distribution, and those are pretty easy to display on a worldwide map, but for species that only exist in a small geographic area, you need to be able to zoom in on much smaller sections of the map, which is why I need an .svg file. The problem is that when you're only showing a small section of map, you need the smaller regional subdivisions (states, provinces, internal districts, etc.) for what you're looking at to make any sense. - Ken_Thomas (talk) 12:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: Stitch together these six panes into a gigantic panorama. Keep in mind these when stitching:

• I was standing on a very unstable surface, which means the camera may have shook up and down a little when taking the photo
• The falls were spewing out mist that traveled as I took the panorama
• Lighting could be inconsistent due to the fact that I used a "Spot" metering mode to adjust for light

When finished:

• Upload under the same license
• Use the name File:Snoqualmie-Falls-panorama.jpg
• Move File:Snoqualmie-Falls-panorama_6.jpg to File:Snoqualmie-Falls-pano_6.jpg for consistency.

Thanks,
Deathgleaner (talk) 22:37, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did a very basic stitching to show up the issues:

• the mists are really disturbing, althought it does not appear much on the final result. Still It is visible when you look on the picture. It can be probably corrected, but I am unsure of it. I think the light exposure amplify the effect here. The hugin preview was ugly, I am almost amazed of the result I got. Imo, Always try to shot fast pans, maybe with more overlapping so you reduce the risk of strangeness.
• There are missing pans up and down. Imo, always try to shot the top and bottom part of the final panorama or they'll be missing. I think this is the main problem of this panorama.

Esby (talk) 23:16, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Enblend is a pretty amazing program, isn't it? :) Blends just about anything. Anyway, it seems you didn't use any vertical guides for your stitch? I uploaded a new version with the pitch corrected so that the fences, houses and trees are roughly vertical. I still didn't do any exposure or vignetting correction: I did try, but hugin kept interpreting the moving fog as an exposure change and giving really absurd results. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, I did not use any vertical guides, I tends to retake the photographs when I find those situation in my pano. hugin exposure correction sometimes works, but sometimes it does not. I wish there could be a way to easily adjust the settings manually while previewing the panorama. Esby (talk) 08:58, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Unblur this image as much as possible.

Deathgleaner (talk) 22:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you take a new one, and use better lightning and a tripod and without those pillows :-). Or maybe use this File:Upright piano inside.jpg — SKvalen (talk) 19:43, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): Various Wikipedias (eg) Request: To remove the orange colour cast. I think you can call this a whitebalance issue. -- Commander Keane (talk) 01:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I can remove the yellow cast, but the original image is very small, and suffers from JPG compression artifacts when the color cast is removed. If you can upload a higher quality version, I can fix it for you. —Zzubnik (talk) 11:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tried. Deathgleaner (talk) 03:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Deathgleaners result was really bad. I made a new version using the original image. This one has less noise, and made the light pure white. I don't know if the light really was purely white, because I haven't been in the tunnel. I hope this is how the picture was intended. Richardprins (talk) 16:44, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an image editing geek, so I just did the best as I could: Adjust the white-point and black-point. So how did you do it? Deathgleaner (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): Use in Wikipedia for coverage about the field hockey tournament

Request: SVG format could make all this image more effective. I need some help because i don't how to convert it, can somebody take this task? -- Aleenf1 (talk) 15:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

• I gave this a shot. Had some issues because I'm more used to Illustrator than Inkscape. I have no idea how to get the default font that thick/bold. It may not be possible. I could convert a fatter font to outlines, but then that sort of defeats the purpose of SVG. Also, I had some transparency issues as well. Anyone care to work on the file I created? If those two issues are address, then it would be easy for anyone to change the letter combination to anything they want. Just curious, why do wou think SVG would be more effective?-Andrew c (talk) 02:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think to represent a ball, a radial gradient is better than a linear gradient. How does try 2 look? Pbroks13 (talk) 02:34, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I wasn't even thinking of the object (hey, what do you know.. it's supposed to be a field hockey ball!). I was just trying to recreate identically what I saw. Looks good (though it may be a bit too gray. It may pop more with a larger white highlight). What'd you do to get the letters bolder?-Andrew c (talk) 15:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I increased the stroke size by like 20. So, how's that? Pbroks13 (talk) 06:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the original"Ball" SVG: File:Field hockey ball.svg. That text on this ball... and you will have an identical recreation. J.smith (talk) 23:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

w:File:WandJHorizontalLogo.svg (NFC, so it is shown as a link)

Article(s):w:Washington & Jefferson College

Request: -- I made a vector version of this image:[6], located here: w:File:WandJHorizontalLogo.svg. I couldn't get the fonts to look right, so I would like some help. Please? Here's the deal: I think the word "college" is Franklin Gothic, and it matches pretty closely, parts of the word "Washington & Jefferson" look to be Garamond, but some letters don't fit that font. 1) The "W" in the logo is not crossed in the middle, like it would under Garamond. 2)The "right leg" of the R intersects with the round part at the intersection with the vertical part, but Garamond's R intersects further out. 3) The Fs and the Es have smaller middle serifs than Garamond's version.

So, my question is this: are the words in this logo a mixture of multiple fonts, or is it made from a font that I'm not thinking of? --Jwilkinsen (talk) 18:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

File:BC-Arms.jpg

Article(s): British Columbia

Request: We'd like a clean line-art SVG of the Coat of Arms of British Columbia. It should not look like a bad-quality autotraced bitmap. It cannot be manually traced from File:Coat of Arms of British Columbia.png, as that is non-free. -- Denelson83 (talk) 01:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Surely that must be a derivative work. /Lokal_Profil 03:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you saying no? -- Denelson83 (talk) 06:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the description page for the "non-free one" is correct, then wouldn't {{PD-old}} apply? Pbroks13 (talk) 18:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The BC coat of arms were published more the 50 years ago, and was subject to crown copyright, so they are now in the public domain. Full history is here, and a good resolution version here. I wouldn't suggest using File:Coat of Arms of British Columbia.png as your base image, vector-images.com drew that representation and specifically asks people don't vectorized from it (whether if legally can claim they can own their representation of someone elses work is a matter of debate). Also the image File:BC-Arms.jpg might not be public domain, I would call the Legislature and ask when they were installed, it it was 50 years ago then I would tag it {{PD-Art|PD-Canada}}. --Svgalbertian (talk) 23:15, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Mexican Federal Police shield
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  Federal Investigations Agency shield

Article(s): Federal Preventive Police
Federal Investigations Agency

Request: These Mexican federal agency shields could use SVG versions, as they're both crummy JPGs right now. -- Gump Stump (talk) 02:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

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  2008 Holden RC Colorado LX Crew Cab 4-door utility.

Article(s): w:en:Isuzu D-Max

Request: I would like the light-coloured "blob" to be removed. I have tried doing so myself using PS, but the result is not good. OSX (talk) 02:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blob? Richardprins (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think he's referring to the light spot at the frontmost corner of the vehicle (at the edge of the bumper). --Yerpo (talk) 18:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A relatively straightforward, but a very useful addition would be an SVG scheme of a tokamak device. It could be based on one of the existing pictures...

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The reason that I'm requesting this is that I've been cleaning inadequately labeled images on :sl Wikipedia and noticed this one. It's very informative, so I'd like to replace it in the article instead of just deleting. I can provide translation of the labels if necessary.

Bump. Is this too much work for the scope of this project? If so, where else can I make this request? --Yerpo (talk) 08:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): en:Tokamak

Request: -- Yerpo (talk) 09:04, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: My request is:

1. To correct the part of the axe's blade where the white part is missing (as it should be from left to right Red-White-Blue.
2. To correct the ribbon with the motto so that it would be in the right size and shape according to [7].
3. And to stylize the words of the motto so it would be compatible with the ribbon.

Oren neu dag (talk) 10:30, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

A administrator on Serbian Wikipedia told me that designs of coat of arms are in public domain, but images are free only if they are made under free licence. So, can someone create vector versions of this few images [8], [9] and [File:Grb Vranje.jpg|this]? --BokicaK (talk) 05:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It wouldn't be as simple as that. I guess what he means is that the design i.e. the text description (en:blazon) which defines the coat of arms are free. In order to create free CoAs one would then need access to the blazon and then based on that (and only that without being influenced by any "official" interpretation) create new coat of arms. /Lokal_Profil 20:33, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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First of all, the pictures need to be rotated.

Picture 3 needs to have its brightness decreased. Picture 1 needs slight brightness increase.

Then, begin the stitching. After done, the file should be located at File:MuseumOfGlassPano.jpg.

Deathgleaner (talk) 04:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I know the sky changes color on the left but I thought it's pretty good for my first pano. I can try again if you want or someone else can make a better one. --Yarnalgo (talk) 23:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is quite amazing for your first panorama. Did you try increasing the luminosity/brightness on the first slide? And yes, the color change is a bit problematic. Deathgleaner (talk) 04:19, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kinda curious to know how are the background buildings in reality... right or inclined? The horizon looks strange, I tried myself with the panorama but also got horizon problems too... Esby (talk) 08:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that when I was there, the ground on the right was slightly higher than on the left, but the horizon looks like a sideways "S". Deathgleaner (talk) 04:05, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: The big building (Museum of Glass) is supposed to be inclined, but all the other buildings are not. Deathgleaner (talk) 04:06, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a version with a straightened horizon. I haven't cropped this one yet — it really needs some fake sky in the top right corner, otherwise I'd have to crop off part of the museum building itself. :( —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looking from that I'm guessing I tilted my camera while taking the pics. Oops. Deathgleaner (talk) 04:41, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What I got as result was near what Ilmari Karonen got, missing sky in top right part, maybe it could be reconstructed, not sure, I havn't tried, usually I always shot the sky & ground in other pans when I do a panorama, so I can use part of them if needed. Esby (talk) 14:05, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, my bad. Since multiple people have tried but haven't gotten a good result, just tell everybody not to try again. We will generate fake sky, and mayybe fake ground. Deathgleaner (talk) 02:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just got around to trying to fix the missing sky, and what do you know, resynthesizer got it perfectly the first time. Wow! My usual experience with faking blue sky has been pretty bad (since the resynthesizer can only clone pixels, not extrapolate gradients), but apparently there were enough dark areas in the existing sky to make it work this time. Anyway, I took the liberty of uploading my new version over your original, Yarnalgo — I hope you don't mind. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Series hybrid electric vehicle without a plug; please replace with existing or new diagram as appropriate
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• [sic] Incorrect parallel hybrid - Please consider moving from misspelling "File:Parallell..." to "Parallel" deleting this version because the generator should be in between the ICE and the battery, not downstream from the battery (if regenerative breaking is also being illustrated, the same or a separate generator should still be upstream from the battery.)
  [sic] Incorrect parallel hybrid - Please consider moving from misspelling "File:Parallell..." to "Parallel" deleting this version because the generator should be in between the ICE and the battery, not downstream from the battery (if regenerative breaking is also being illustrated, the same or a separate generator should still be upstream from the battery.)
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  Series-parallel hybrid from w:Hybrid vehicle drivetrain (please see related diagrams there) but still no plug to charge the battery

Article(s): w:Plug-in hybrid, w:Hybrid vehicle, w:Hybrid electric vehicle, w:Hybrid vehicle drivetrain, w:Automobile, w:Bus, etc.

Request: Please select existing suitable diagrams from w:Hybrid vehicle drivetrain for w:Plug-in hybrid if possible, or SVGify the hand drawings offered at w:Talk:Plug-in hybrid#Type diagrams with internationalization in mind. Please explicitly include plug charging for w:Plug-in hybrid. Please consider whether it would be best to include depiction of w:regenerative breaking on any or all new or existing diagrams. Please see w:BYD F3DM#Principles of operation for Chinese language diagrams of the first production plug-in hybrid, a Series-parallel hybrid. Thank you very much for your help with this. -- 69.228.193.173 14:08, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): en:Lacrosse strategy

Request: SVG versions of all of these (should be super simple and easy even though its a lot) with green backgrounds preferably. You might want to use File:Mens lacrosse diagram.svg even if its only to get a sense of what its supposed to look like. Thanks! -- Yarnalgo (talk) 06:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I did one of them. I don't know anything about lacrosse so I don't know if it's correct. Richardprins (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did another one. Richardprins (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those look great thanks! --Yarnalgo (talk) 20:43, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I was just granted permission to upload two files on Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.5: a map and a brochure. Both are in SVG but they are encapsulated in PDFs. I followed the instructions on Wikipedia: installed Inkscape, opened the file, clicked OK and saved as SVG. The first file - about 5 MB - converted but the resulting SVG was very distorted and parts of it were missing. The second one is a high detail relief map 16 MB of size - only crushed my computer several times.

Question: How do I convert it properly or how do I upload it on Commons so that professionals like you could convert it?

Thanks in advance and best regards! --Chech Explorer (talk) 08:07, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give me the link/location of the PDF file? --Jackl (talk) 03:23, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I managed to extract the SVGs from the PDF but they grew even larger and Commons doesn't generate thumbs for them: Category:The Rhodopes on The Paths Of Orpheus And Eurydice Project. I am also awaiting instructions how to confirm the copyright status of the images via OTRS. Can something be done to reduce the size and load time of the two SVGs? Also, why there are no thumbnails? --Chech Explorer (talk) 10:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've had some luck in using Scribus to convert PostScript to SVG. It might be worth a try. Of course, you'd need to convert the PDF to PostScript first, but a simple converter like pdf2ps ought to do that. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now since we have the SVGs here, can somebody fix the errors, reduce their size and/or extract PNGs out of them for easier use? --Chech Explorer (talk) 23:45, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It might help if we knew exactly what you want to do with these files. I can extract at least some of the photos from the SVG quite easily, but none of them seem to be of particularly high quality — even the biggest are only about 1 megapixel, many of them look pixelated or heavily compressed, some have what looks like watermarking and they all seem to be converted from JPEG images with a fuzzy border added. They work just fine to illustrate the brochure, but they seem pretty useless on their own. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the images on the brochure are not top quality. They are for illustration purposes only. I think the map is more important. --Chech Explorer (talk) 19:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you can provide the PDF source I can try to re-convert it with a (hopefully) smaller result. You can upload the PDF here at Commons. --Yarnalgo (talk) 03:59, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also see COM:OTRS for instructions on how to confirm permission. --Yarnalgo (talk) 04:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I talked with the person who provided the PDFs. He said he's going to send me the files in SVG and/or PNG. Then we will fix the OTRS. If something goes wrong, we will first confirm the permission and then probably you could help. But anyway we will wait until next week - I communicate with the person by his official e-mail (not available on weekends and there were Orthodox Christmas holidays in Bulgaria recently) and he has to contact the studio which created the map and the brochure for him and his institution, so it takes some time. Best regards --Chech Explorer (talk) 15:15, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could somebody create an icon of a director chair like this one with the clapperboard and that thing(don't know the name) too; I'd like to use as icon for sutbs about movie director's articles and to transform it in an icon for use on infoboxes pictograms. Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 13:50, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: I would appreciate some clean (simple, but recognizable) House and University Google Map Symbols (16x16 Pixel, PNG with transparent background, max. 20 KB) in blue (and maybe some other colors). -- 94.220.200.142 13:16, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: Could someone please stitch those two images? Could someone also create a short help page about how to stitch images?-- Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 14:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I can try, but I doubt it'll stitch cleanly: the pictures seem to be taken from different positions. The first rule of panoramic photography is that, with some very rare exceptions, one should always shoot the pictures to be stitched from as close to the same spot as possible. To be precise, you want to hold the focal point of the camera (which lies somewhere between the lens and the camera body) fixed and rotate the camera around it. That way, all the pictures will have the same perspective and they'll therefore stitch cleanly. Otherwise you'll get mismatches. (The main exceptions are perfectly flat surfaces, which can be stitched even if the camera is moved, and objects that are so distant that you'd have to move a very long way before the perspective would change noticeably. Your wall sculpture might just be flat enough to stitch acceptably, but I doubt there's any way to get the arch itself to come out right.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:39, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check out http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/index.shtml for tutorials on how to stich images. --Yarnalgo (talk) 21:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As I guessed, the perspective difference was pretty bad. I managed to get the sculptures and the frame to more or less line up by putting a few control points on the knobbly thing (torch?) to the left of the top of the arch and a lot of horizontal line controls on the lines above it. The real trick was to let hugin optimize the "x shift" values together with the usual roll/pitch/yaw parameters in order to correct for the varying camera position. (I tried optimizing the "y shift" values too, but I didn't have enough good control points to get a sensible solution with that many degrees of freedom, so I just left them at zero which worked out well enough.) The view through the arch is, of course, completely FUBAR, but at least the sculpture itself looks fairly OK if you don't look at it too closely. Anyway, maybe it can at least serve as a warning example: "This is what you'll get if you move the camera while shooting a panorama." —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:30, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the great help and if u could create a Help:Stitching it would benefit the whole community.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 16:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I attempted to fix the interior a bit, and uploaded over the first stitched version. Hope this helped. INVERTED (talk) 16:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I translated Image:Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide-en.svg using SVGTranslate tool and than made some minor changes using Inkscape. The result ([10])i am not able upload to commons, while getting "The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again."

you added a comment after the final svg tag which isn't allowed. removing that should make that file work

Also a few moths ago i tried to update File:Skyscrapercompare.svg using Inkscape, but result did not show up.

here you simply embedded a raster image inside the vector file, which defeats the purpose of using a vector format. the raster image (swfc.png) is simply linked to from the svg file, and when uploaded that file (which is on your hard drive) is clearly not found.

I am not SVG expert, so any explanation why both images looks ok in Inkscape, but did not work is welcomed. --Jklamo (talk) 22:36, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

see comments inline. regards /Marmelad (talk) 10:48, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): en:Flag of Europe

Request: Three incorrect representations of the European flag. I think, this should be mentionend on the pictures like "Specimen" on a banknote. -- Kolja21 (talk) 11:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: ... I don't think so... It's not like someone would accidentally put it in an article when they would have to type in "incorrect star rotation" or whatever. The watermark would make it look really bad. --Yarnalgo (talk) 19:08, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of marking the image I think a template on the image description page would be helpful. Unfortunately I don't know what it would say or what icon to use. --Commander Keane (talk) 07:56, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I found {{Fake flag}} and added it to the image description pages.--Commander Keane (talk) 11:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can somone make said image a svg file with clear background? Good work is needed as the image will be displayed in many many articles in the Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as in the main page - it is our featured article symble. Thanks, Yonidebest Ω Talk 21:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems user:Yuval Y did it for you, the svg is called file:Article MediumPurple.svg Richardprins (talk) 20:23, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried asking the original author? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:57, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, she is no longer active. The image is free, I do not see a problem. Yonidebest Ω Talk 23:13, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just asked because the GIF has clearly been rasterized from a vector image, so simply converting the original version to SVG would've been easier than trying to recreate it from the tiny raster version. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): w:Pelagićevo, w:sr:Пелагићево

Request: Can someone create .svg version of this coat of arms. Design can be found here. --BokicaK (talk) 03:39, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Can you find a better image of the coat of arms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardprins (talk • contribs) 13:25, May 28, 2009 (UTC)

This is the best image which I could find. --BokicaK (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I made the image, see the thumbnail. Is it correct? is there anything you'd like to change? please tell me. Richardprins (talk) 17:05, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm delighted! :) But can You little center name ПЕЛАГИЋЕВО? --BokicaK (talk) 03:30, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I have made this archive with Paint. How can I make this file better? Thanks --Lagurion (talk) 09:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For start, by using a vector graphics program, like GIMP (it's free and not too complicated to learn). --Yerpo (talk) 13:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gimp is a vector graphics program??? I would have said Inkscape. --Eusebius (talk) 13:20, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bah, of course I meant Inkscape. Sorry. --Yerpo (talk) 07:10, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of Thanks to all--Lagurion (talk) 13:57, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But I look for a program that make hemicicles, election simulator or samething like that. --Lagurion (talk) 20:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Making hemicircles with Inkscape is easy. A specialized election simulator program will be hard to find, a free one even harder. --Yerpo (talk) 07:10, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrote a little script that draws vector versions of your semicircles based on lists of numbers. [11]. Let me know if you need help/have suggestions. Regards /Marmelad (talk) 20:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cute. But political parties are often associated with colors so you might offer the user a choice of color for each entry. --Yerpo (talk) 06:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Added colour support, and possibility of direct links. See eg [12] /Marmelad (talk) 09:18, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. The only thing left to do is to write instructions (I could guess that for colors you have to enter hex values with # in front, but not everybody has experience in web design) and provide a suitable license for use in Commons. Although the result is probably simple enough to not be eligible for copyright anyway. Still might be worth clearing that up. --Yerpo (talk) 06:47, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Valid CSS color names seem to work too: [13]. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 10:40, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: -- Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 08:42, 28 May 2009 (UTC) I want to nominate the image for Featured picture, but there is a line near the middle that ruins the picture. Could someone fix this? Graphist opinion:[reply]

•  Comment This image has been discussed here before: see the section #Stitch these images together above. There are some other problems with it, such as a creepy disembodied head on the left and a child's floating torso on the right. Also, it could probably do with some downscaling, given how blurry it looks at full resolution. Given all that, I suspect a reblending from the original images (and the original .pto file, if available) would be called for. (But other than that, I do agree that it's a very nice panorama.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed this here. I believe I still have the underlying images, if someone else wants to take a shot at stitching the panorama. I wasn't kidding when I said it was from 56 images, but I could upload them all if someone wants to make a separate attempt at it. It was really pushing the limits of the computer I was using at the time (and I crashed Hugin several times trying to make this). - Jmabel ! talk 06:34, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm certainly willing to give it a try. If you don't want to upload all the files to Commons, you could always just zip them up and plonk them on a personal website somewhere. Or make a .torrent of them, or put them on a file sharing site, or something. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just very belatedly noticed your prompt response! I'll try to upload the images some time in the next week or so; I've got a bunch of other uploading I want to do first, though. - Jmabel ! talk 04:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Commonist is good for this kind of thing. Supplying the source images of a panorama is never a bad idea. --J.smith (talk) 06:27, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am uploading with Commonist at this very moment. All images will have names beginning with "Georgetown PowerPlant interior pano 1 component", followed by whatever 4-digit number my camera used in the original image. So they are File:Georgetown PowerPlant interior pano 1 component 7991.JPG etc.

If I can be of any further assistance on this, please ping me on my user talk page. I don't assiduously follow the Graphics Lab School pages. - Jmabel ! talk 17:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose this is the whole list? The last number I see is 8059 — is that the last, or are you still uploading more? Anyway, I'll start downloading them... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the whole list to me. - Jmabel ! talk 16:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): w:Chinese character classification

Request: I need the image to have a transparent background. Also, can someone tell me how to create that effect in Inkscape. --The New Mikemoral (talk) 01:38, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

 Done Wow, that intermediate version sure was a mess: I don't know what you did to fill it with dozens of invisible objects, but that's what there was. (Or, actually, I just had a nasty suspicion that I do: no, you cannot make something transparent by putting a transparent object on top of it.)

Anyway, the only think wrong with the original version was that it had a white opaque square behind the other objects that needed to be deleted. Also, the "holes" in the drawing were actually separate white objects on top of the black background; I turned them into actual holes using the "Path → Difference" tool.

By the way, for checking in advantage whether your drawing is actually transparent, you can go to the document properties ("File → Document Properties...") and adjust the background color to something non-white and non-transparent: this should produce a visible change in the editing window. If it doesn't, or if only some areas change, there's some white object blocking the background from showing through. Just remember to set the background back to transparent white (#ffffff00) before saving. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:34, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): main image in the Wikipedia article about this dinosaur genus (see Mononykus)

Request: Hi, this image on the right suffers from reflections caused by the skeleton being inside a glass montre I think. Would it be possible to remove these reflections, and make the affected parts of the skeleton look like the rest? And maybe give the entire image a colour correction so the yellow tint disappears, and remove the shadow on the left edge of the image? Thanks in advance.

The image is the main image in the Wikipedia article about this dinosaur genus. FunkMonk (talk) 13:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Maybe I can handle it... Just gimme awhile okay? Ivan Akira (talk) 11:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done, just view the image at the right side... How do you think? Do you like it? Or maybe my work is not good enough for you? I'm dunno... But if you don't like it, you can delete it at once. Ivan Akira (talk) 13:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Looks good, thanks, i'll use it! FunkMonk (talk) 14:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome... I'm glad you like it! Ivan Akira (talk) 03:00, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a slight problem with your edit. I presume you cloned away the parts of the image with reflections, which is ok by itself, but I think by doing it you changed the shape of vertebrae in the tail a bit. That kind of details are important in palaeontology so please consider doing it more precisely. --Yerpo (talk) 15:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This request should reopened then... I'm really appreciate about your concern, And I do know that. I'm really sorry for that. So, maybe there is other who can do well? Ivan Akira (talk) 16:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't have to be reopened, just tweaked a bit. You think you can do it? FunkMonk (talk) 06:29, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that you deleted the original image in Commons and point the source reference to the flickr, because this problem is not resolved yet, I don't think that is a good decision (I think it's better to delete my fix than the original, at least that what I think). And I'm really sorry that I can't accomplish this request. Please skilled Wikigraphist to help on this request... Ivan Akira (talk) 11:07, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original is now restored to Commons (and really should not be deleted). - Jmabel ! talk 23:27, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): All Rome articles throughout the Wikipedia world

Request: Please create an animated version. -- Mattes (talk) 08:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

What do you mean by animated? How do you want it animated? --Yarnalgo (talk) 02:06, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps a more relevant question first - why do you want it animated? I really don't think that an animated flag icon is suitable for stub and other templates because the movement adds no information whatsoever and it gets annoying very quickly. --Yerpo (talk) 13:27, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, you don't know the animated GIF flags at Commons... OK, here we go → Category:Animated flags (overall amount: 281). Animated flags are used in many Wikipedia editions (mostly not in the article namespace, I guess). I'd use it for Commons:WikiProject Rome and the user namespace (User:Mattes/Projects/Rome, babel). My opinion: Yes, animated flags does not support information. Yes, they might annoy people if they come by the 100s. Some people like them, though (it's more vivid). We're providing "the stuff" here, and I'm sure that this animated Rome flag will be used somewhere soon (besides me). --Mattes (talk) 10:01, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos

Request: Can these low quality images be improved? Please see Category:San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez for proper colors of the church. -- bamse (talk) 02:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Done. --Jackl (talk) 10:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): Many articles on various wikipedias.

Request: If i understand well, we can't simply vectorise copyrigted COAs, but we (You) draw new ones. There is lot of small resolution COAs of Bosnian towns on Commons, Serbian and Bosniak Wikipedia with uncertain status (see this for full list). Although most of COAs are pretty simple, I understand that it is big task, I have patience, but I just want to know can this be done, so we can gradually replace and delete the unfree COAs? -- BokicaK (talk) 10:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please convert to SVG, this image is in horrible quality. Connormah (talk) 04:30, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That good? Pbroks13 (talk) 00:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those are judges?! 76.117.247.55 23:29, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone here make a nuvola glossy icon of the Canadian maple leaf, and one of the canadian loonie? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 19:55, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article(s): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6renberg http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannsturm_(Georgsmarienh%C3%BCtte)

Request: The panorama needs to be brightened up as a whole. I managed to get pretty good results for either the foreground or the background but unfortunately never for the whole panorama - just don't know how to do that. BTW: If you would prefer to recreate the panorama from scratch I still have all single photos - just contact me.

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I edited the image with Gimp, tweaked the luminance with levels, Hoping it will fit your needs. Esby (talk) 15:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s):

• Dragonair (en, zh)
• Asiana Airlines (zh, en)

Request:It need to be adjust the horizonal level. if possible, adjust to make the plane body more clear-- Ellery (talk) 12:07, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I have uploaded a modified version of the A330-300 here: File:Dragonair A330-300 B-HWG mod.jpg. I had to crop away a little more of the tail but I hope it will be well. /Fluff (talk) 07:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A look at Bellevue and Seattle, it must be stitched into a panorama.

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Deathgleaner (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The file shoud be uploaded under "Image:Bellevue to Seattle pano.jpg", same license.

 Doing… but the third picture is just a zoomed in version of the first, right? --Yarnalgo (talk) 07:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done--Yarnalgo (talk) 07:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uploaded a new version, tweaked the levels before merging, used a rectilinear projection. Esby (talk) 16:55, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: This old picture has some artifacts. Is it possible for someone with some photoshop skills to remove some of them? Thanks everyone!--GrapedApe (talk) 05:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolution: Here is my try. It's Gimped though, not photoshoped. --Jak (talk) 15:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC) Graphist opinion:[reply]

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Request: In Commons:Deletion requests/File:MacauRainstormWarningSignal2004.svg, User:Sdee said that the SVG version is totally different from the original one. However, I couldn't find that and he rejected to point out where was the differences at once. Therefore, I need helps on comparing these two images for any major differences. If there are differences, I wish there is someone else to help me on fixing it. Thank you! --CDIP No.150 repair meter 20:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I commented on the DR. --Yarnalgo (talk) 20:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know why, but there is a black box at the centre of the svg. Please help me remove it. Thanks. --Jackl (talk) 05:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --Yarnalgo (talk) 17:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is the flag if Wilkes-Barre, PA, but it looks NOTHING like a flag. Can somebody attempt to re-draw this image, according to the colors listed here, so we can put this into an article? Thanks.

Some refs:

• http://www.diamondcity200.org/symbols.htm

Connormah (talk) 17:54, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You need some form of evidence that this image is in the public domain — as it is this JPEG isn't even safe on Commons. At the least we'd need the publication date of the yearbook. Perhaps contacting the source website organization via email. ¦ Reisio (talk) 06:09, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It should be PD, the site hasn't been updated for atleast 4 years, and with it in such a bad state, one can only assume that it is old, adn therefore in the public domain, like most US city flags. (Connormah forgetting to log in) 99.199.188.218 17:46, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's no point wasting time on something that will be immediately deleted. ¦ Reisio (talk) 06:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read my post above? Connormah (talk) 00:21, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

…? ¦ Reisio (talk) 10:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The one by the IP address of me forgetting to sign in. I have stated a couple things. Connormah (talk) 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That image came from FotW, which cites a website run by Wilkes Barre, which claims the image came from a "Pennsylvania Society Year Book". The "Society" appears to be the Penna state chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. The latest "Year Book" I could find of theirs was from 1913, so the image is at least that old, which makes it {{PD-US}} by 10 years. 76.117.247.55 23:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s):

• The Travels of Marco Polo
• Marco Polo

Request: -- Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 12:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Marco Polo is a very prominent explorer and his article is visited by thousands every day. We currently have the one above which is very bad considering general route maps we have. Could someone create an svg route map of his journey, which could later contain the names he gave to the cities he stopped in and so on? Possible references would be[reply]

• (general map Columbia University)
• (zoomed west)
• (zoomed east)
• (University of Washington)
• (USNews)

• I would also appreciate work on this subject. Thanks in advance! LouriePieterse (talk) 16:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added a basic SVG created by one of our contributors. Please if there are any questions ask.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 21:15, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): es:Juan Domingo Perón

Request: Juan Domingo Perón was a president from Argentina. The first image is the complete photo. The others are pieces of a 4-pages big reproduction of the photo published by Diario Clarín, wich of course didn't fit at a single time over the scanner. I would like all of those parts being fit toguether to reconstruct the original image at the bigger size that will result -- Belgrano (talk) 16:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Shouldn't be too hard, but you do realize that your scans have text showing through, right? Would it be possible to rescan with a black sheet behind the page? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, I did a quick stitch with hugin: File:Perón montado a caballo stitched.jpg. I didn't do any other editing on it; if you want to work on it, I assume you can adjust the contrast, edit out the creases and the text showing through, scale down to eliminate raster and so on yourself. But as I noted above, I think it would be better to start over from scans taken with black backing. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): medal tables of World Games (a lot of articles)

Request: I would like this image was converted to svg, because of the better quality and transparent background. Filipe Ribeiro ^Msg 17:43, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Is this OK? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 10:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not thanking immediately the work. If it's not asking much, I wish that more images were also converted: the ones in this category, except the squares. I'm very grateful. Filipe Ribeiro ^Msg 22:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does File:Sport records icon AF.svg look OK? If so, I can make the rest of the set easily enough (or you should be able to do it yourself, too). I changed the font from what appears to be Berlin Sans Demi to BitStream Vera Sans Bold, since the latter is a free font, and thus available directly on the Wikimedia servers. If it has to be Berlin Sans, I'd have to convert the text to paths to get it to render. I can make the font bolder, though, if you want. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect! Thank you so much for the help. Filipe Ribeiro ^Msg 18:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While wonderful, if you can increase the font size they will appear better in the articles. It1s my fault, I didn't notice that the files were previously with a small font size. Thanks again. Filipe Ribeiro ^Msg 18:18, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Better now? I went ahead and uploaded the entire set; they're almost identical anyway, just the letters and the colors differ. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect again! Thank you, Ilmari. Filipe Ribeiro ^Msg 21:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: -- Yann (talk) 12:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure about the first, but I think the second set at least is basically unstitchable: the surface isn't flat and the images haven't been taken from the same position nor from the same angle. Sorry. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for your input. I will make new pictures whenever possible. Actually I tried to take them from a vertical point under each part of the ceiling, so to have less distortion. Isn't the right way to do it? Yann (talk) 20:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The right way to take pictures, if you want to be able to stitch them into a panorama using software like hugin, is to take them from as close to the exact same spot as possible. Ideally, you want to rotate your camera around the entrance pupil of the lens, which is generally somewhere inside the lens along its axis, but a little movement can usually be fudged. Significant camera movement, however, introduces parallax errors that can be hard or impossible to correct. You also generally want to be as far away from whatever you're photographing as possible, since the closer things are to the camera, the more pronounced any parallax effects will be. (You can eliminate parallex issues almost completely by using a tripod with a special panorama head that rotates the camera exactly around the entrance pupil, but those can be somewhat expensive and must be carefully adjusted for each camera and lens.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:54, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shooting in parallel in only valid for wall or planar surface. For 3D objects including church interiors, it will fail. Esby (talk) 09:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I stitched together no.1. Per above, the second one is "unstitchable". --Jackl (talk) 15:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! A did a color correction, which could be certainly improved, and a distortion correction is needed, but I don't know how to do that. Yann (talk) 17:53, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to stitch it again. --Jackl (talk) 04:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No luck. Sorry. --Jackl (talk) 11:48, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): On the whole project, in the upper left corner, so basically — in every article.

Request: Hi. I need an expert who can cast an eye on this .png image and literally polish the logo around the edges a little bit. Check out the mk donation landing page that uses the logo — it has white lines surrounding the edges of the text and the puzzle ball. Can someone check upon it for errors/optimize it/upload a better version? Thank you in advance --Brainmachine (talk) 11:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed. ¦ Reisio (talk) 23:58, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Can this be converted to a SVG, please? 96.52.53.138 21:28, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The images above are in poor condition. May I request that these be re-drawn to SVG? Thank you so much in advance. Connormah (talk) 01:11, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: This collection of images would probably be really useful as an animation, though there will probably be a lot of manual work extracting the individual frames :( -- _→AzaToth 23:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Can the crack, and some white spots be removed? Connormah (talk) 18:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded hi-res version, did some crop and try to polish bit that cracks. --Jklamo (talk) 18:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is another cleaned up and enhanced version for you Julielangford (talk) 23:31, 29 July 2009 (GMT)

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The scratches in these images are almost overpowering the whole purpose of this image. May I request an entire cleanup? Thank you. Connormah (talk) 17:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on the Henry Clay picture, based on the original TIFF from the LOC. I've found a nice trick (which I really should document) for getting rid of the dust and small scratches, but that big scrape over half the face is going to be tricky to fix no matter what. I think I'll upload an intermediate version once I've got most of the rest fixed. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:27, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As promised, here's a partially restored version. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've just about got the face fixed now, although it's hardly perfect. I've also uploaded a JPEG version, since it looks better thumbnailed. I may be able to remove a few more conspicuous spots and scratches, and maybe do something about the gray spot on the neck, but it's getting close to as good as I can make it. Also, there's something about the left eye and cheek that looks odd; I suspect there are some dark smudges mixed with the natural shadows there, and I'm finding it difficult to tease them apart. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:31, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): almost everywhere; and see w:en:Electromagnetic spectrum for background needed to understand problem

Request: Please squeeze in an infra-red band icon between the rainbow icon and the microwave icon. Please also correct the wavelengths as shown in File:Spectre Terahertz.svg, or refer to w:en:Electromagnetic spectrum. I can do a stop-gap fix myself by copy and paste from the second image but I doubt the result will be the high quality a featured picture deserves (I had problems with the font, and my quickfix icons do not look good in closeup). -- 84user (talk) 17:22, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: hi, i hope it works. it's my first upload to wikicommons, so please don't hesitate to ask for any changes.Isometrik (talk) 02:31, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's quite good and more than I expected. I made some trial variants from it and placed them in the gallery above. The first of my adaptations (4) swaps two icons because it seems the red quarter circle with the "C" represents infrared, while the "bar"-like icon is meant to represent microwaves. The second adaptation (5) removed the left-most gamma and right-most radio icon because they duplicate the existing icons. The radiation symbol is meant to represent gamma. The micorwave icon unfortunately is easily confused with an electric bar fire. However, after I uploaded the narrow SVG (width 758 height 443), Commons displaysdisplayed it as 512 wide by 443 high. Is this a known bug in Inkscape or in Commons? Latest upload has fixed it. It looks Ok when I view the SVG locally in Opera. Can you make a version of mine that matches the original size of 744 × 524? 84user (talk) 20:28, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I've added a variant (6) made by merging elements from Spectre.svg and Spectre InfraRed.svg, and struck through out of date comments. 84user (talk) 21:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, when i was doing my corrections, i read the article, so i used c° and the graph of the rising temperature (red quarter circle) to represent microwaves as they can heat things up. and from this graph: File:Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png i added gamma radiation and long waves, which are not the same as x-ray and radio waves. Isometrik (talk) 14:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): w:Maximum spacing estimation

Request: The braces need to be thinner and in proportion to the rest of the image so that the labels can be seen. -- Avi (talk) 18:26, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Done. AJCham ᵀᴬᴸᴷ 20:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: Please remove scratches. Connormah (talk) 01:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I've given it go, but please note, this is my first ever attempt at this kind of retouching, and it probably shows. Someone else may still do a better job of it. AJCham ᵀᴬᴸᴷ 05:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a second attempt, which I'm much happier with. AJCham ᵀᴬᴸᴷ 07:48, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great job, thank you so much! --Connormah (talk) 15:46, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please improve the vector to look more alike the raster. Connormah (talk) 22:34, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop#Request for improvement: Pat Nixon Signature.svg. Certes (talk) 01:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request now resolved and archived at WP:GL/I. Details at w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop/Archive/Sep 2009#Request for improvement: Pat Nixon Signature.svg. Certes (talk) 13:06, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Haridwar from opposite bank of the Ganges, 1866]] - Earliest available photograph of the city

Article(s): Haridwar

Request : Can anyone remove the watermark from this image, plus a few others here at Haridwar#History_of_Haridwar. Thanks! --Ekabhishek (talk) 11:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the red square in the corner that says "British Library"? Shouldn't be too hard, although I may not have time to do it today. There are a few images where it seems to partially obscure some text in the original image, though; I can't really fix those properly without knowing what's supposed to be under there. While I'm at it, I assume you'd also like the blue corners fixed in File:A ghat at Haridwar, 1860s.jpg and the line in the middle of File:Hill opposite Haridwar, July 1813.jpg? How about contrast adjustment for the line drawings? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree with your observations regarding the work needed, including the British Library red tags removal. Contrast adjustment would allow some of the line drawing, especially the first one titled "The main ghat down to the river, Hardwar, 7 April 1789" , to be used to the articles. Thanks! PS: Specific queries can also be addressed, obscure text etc. --Ekabhishek (talk) 16:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I retouched the image above. --Jackl (talk) 15:49, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: I am trying to learn how to stitch, however, I am having difficulty beyond a basic, semi-automatic stitch, especially with distortion. While travelling, I decided to try and get as high a resolution picture of the above as possible, despite my camera. So I took 9 greatly overlapping pictures with the idea that I would learn to stitch them when I returned. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the perspective distortion and tilt to look right. I'm really trying to get it as exact as possible, but just not able to. The above is my best effort using hugin and my minimal skills. I was wondering if anyone is able to stitch them with a straight tilt and an aesthetic perspective correction? Are there any programs that help to get perfectly straight lines?-- JalalV (talk) 00:40, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original stitching files:

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Request: I recently took this set of six pictures from the roof of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. I would expect they should make a good panorama of the Music Concourse and the De Young Museum. For some reason, when I tried putting that panorama together with Hugin, I got a big black blank, an experience repeated even after very carefully hand-setting the control points. No idea why it isn't working for me, so I've uploaded the six raw images and am hoping someone else can succeed with this. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I had a go at it, hows this? Tango22 (talk) 12:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks quite good, though I might have done something with a little less curvature, even if it meant sacrificing a bit at the corners. But thank you very much, it's nice to have something up there. - Jmabel ! talk 01:45, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: I need some help to remove unwanted light reflections. I took the same paintings from different angles, but there is always some bad reflections. The first two are taken from further away, so they have less reflection, but the size is much smaller. White balance might also need to be corrected. Yann (talk) 23:45, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I believe the last two can be aligned and combined pretty easily. I'll take a stab at it. Dcoetzee (talk) 06:01, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded my best attempt at this, shown below. Unfortunately the right region was marred by reflections in pretty much all the images - I used one of the low res images to help fill in this region, which is okay since it's mostly low frequency data. Dcoetzee (talk) 06:59, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: The automatic white balance correction in Gimp doesn't work for these files: they contrast much too strongly. What should be the right color correction? Can someone help please? Yann (talk) 12:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

See my edit: Is that what you are talking about? I increase lighting and reduced the reds. ZooFari 19:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes better, thanks. I uploaded another correction: automatic white balance + reduced contrasting. Do you think it is OK? My problem is also that applying the same process to different images gives different results, so I don't have a uniform color accross the whole set. Yann (talk) 19:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unable to tell the true color for white balance (concrete? marble?) ZooFari 20:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They are made in marble, and they were definitely white, but 150 years have passed, so they are a bit darker now. Yann (talk) 23:32, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: Can someone remove Bulgaria, Syria and all ex-Soviet States exept for Kazakhstan and Ukraine from this map? The Bulgarian Air Force and Syrian Air Force never used Mig-27 aircraft, and only Russia is the legal succesor of the Soviet Union so countries like Latvia can not be marked as former MiG-27 users. Thanks in advance. 87.207.137.5 23:25, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

Recently, Wikimedia Sverige was able to get a donation from an archive with some very early photographies, see Regionarkivet. Together with Regionarkivet, we are talking about producing a book with the photographs for the Gothenburg Book Fair, which is in a month or so. The first versions I uploaded were watermarked since Regionarkivet thought that they didn't have any versions without watermarks, but we stumbled upon versions without, and I will upload them as soon as I get them. Anyway, the photographs need a bit of restoration and I was wondering if you could lend a hand as I am not very good at restoring pictures. Should you help, it will of course be noted in the book (which hopefully would be sold internationally). If you can help, please drop me an email to: lennart@wikimedia.se. Thanks in advance and sorry for cross-posting. Best wishes, Hannibal (talk) 09:04, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It'd be simpler (and better for Commons?) if you uploaded the non-watermarked versions and linked to them. Then we could go through our usual process of having a listing here and dealing with them. ¦ Reisio (talk) 04:09, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the thing is, I won't have the pictures without watermarks until next week, so I was just trying to ascertain the interest of the Commons restorationists. But I will upload and link to them here as soon as I can. Any help is greatly appreciated.//Hannibal (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We'll be here. ¦ Reisio (talk) 15:12, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a quick reorganisation. The images can now be found at Category:Images from Regionarkivet and the info at Commons:Regionarkivet. /Lokal_Profil 15:02, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, well... obviously that should help out tremendously with... something, I'm sure. ¦ Reisio (talk) 15:12, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am right now in the process of uploading the tif:s, so anyone is very welcome to help out. The images are here: Category:Images from Regionarkivet. When I am done with all the images, I will post the images here for your benefit. Thanks in advance, Hannibal (talk) 21:55, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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(I changed image from thumb to gallery) To start with I cropped about 13 pixels off the bottom of the image and then I cloned some of the black scanning errors out of the sky. I wanted to upload a clean version before I tried some noise reduction. --J.smith (talk) 06:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did some noise reduction.. but I have no idea what to do about the blurry bar. --J.smith (talk) 06:36, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): es:El Santuario

Request: Hi! I can't do that the letters of PASO DE VENCEDORES be in the banner. Do you can fix it? Thanks, -- ~~×α£đ~~^es 01:15, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you want the font French Script MT as you inputed in the font window? ZooFari 01:32, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did I use French Script MT? I just like a "simple" font like Aharoni, Arial or Times New Roman. ~~×α£đ~~^es 02:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ivanics (talk · contribs) fixed it. Thanks, ~~×α£đ~~^es 20:51, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: -- Hannibal (talk) 09:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I don't understand: you mentioned above that you will get a version without the watermark? Yann (talk) 10:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I didn't explain myself as clearly as I thought. These pictures have tears, spots and discolorations. I was hoping that you guys could fix at least a couple of the photographs before we have to send them to the printer, in about two weeks. I hope that explains the situation a bit more. Thanks, Hannibal (talk) 10:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC) (BTW, if you wonder why I haven't uploaded all 27, it's because some are too big for Commons.)[reply]

I have done some corrections: contrast, color balance, grayscale, replacing existing images when the image without watermark is available. See Category:Images from Regionarkivet. Yann (talk) 17:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request: -- Jackl (talk) 11:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Could someone make a larger version of this for http://redmine.emesene.org/issues/show/69 ? Thanks  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@meta 12:55, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Article(s): w:eng:Lebanese Civil War

Request: Could this please be made into an SVG? FunkMonk (talk) 19:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I'll get into it. Richardprins (talk) 17:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Coat of arms of the Netherlands

Article(s): All articles related to Liechtenstein and Netherland on any wiki

Request: Create a SVG version. This are high res. PNG images of the coat of arms of Liechtenstein and the Netherlands, with clear contours and single tone colors. The former country doesn't have an SVG CoA yet and the latter has 2, but very distorted. The lions and everything else should be Or (yellow) not orange. -- Alex:D (talk) 16:01, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I'll do the first one.--Amadscientist (talk) 18:18, 8 September 2009 (UTC) It needs a few tweaks now that I see it up loaded. The white mink at the bottum of the image needs a white background and a few of the shadows have been blurred as a top layer overlapping in a few spots and I need to fix a couple of lines that I didn't noticed don't match the correct thickness, but it's basicaly done.--Amadscientist (talk) 05:37, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The file looks fine in Inkscape, Firefox and Google Chrome, but the scaled version looks horrible. I have no idea how to fix this.

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Request: -- LachlanArthur (talk) 09:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  Animated version of Douglas Hofstadter's ambigram on the wave-particle duality of light.

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Request: That the animation of stroke thickness (which I added, since I felt the original emphasized the "Particle" reading and thicker strokes would emphasize the "Wave" reading) be slowed down and made to loop back and forth. -- Seahen (talk) 00:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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