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Hello, and thank your for sharing your files with Commons. There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. Please remember that all uploads require source, author and license information. Could you please resolve these problems, which are described on the page linked in above? Thank you. --Siebrand 15:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. EugeneZelenko 14:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please add flag icons to Falgs of <country> categories. For example to Category:Flags of Bulgaria. --EugeneZelenko 14:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The flags are here, actually: Commons:Project Nuvola 2.0+

Thank you very much for the flag! ManecoWifi 15:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your flags for Nuvola 2.0+ are a great start, and it's excellent that you've done so many so fast, but they don't quite match the style of the original Nuvola PNG flags.

Many of the colours should be lighter and more saturated; all blue, white, yellow, red and green should ideally match that in the four flags above. As well, the lighting is backwards: the lightest point of shading should be right of center, not left. (Try just reversing the directions of all the gradients.) Also, parts of the inner border (not the outer grey one) that touch blue, red or green should be darker than the region they touch. How much work would it be to fix these issues? Seahen 19:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re your response on my talk page: I don't think a government can realistically expect the digital representation of a flag to be in exactly its original colours, given (a) that different monitors will render the same colour differently, and (b) we're using gradients rather than solid colours. As for the Netherlands/Luxembourg issue, I suggest adjusting only the luminosity when a darker or lighter blue is needed, while leaving the hue the same and the saturation at maximum. I also think it might be easier to keep a colour fully saturated if the shading were part of the flag rather than an overlay, because in the latter case you're often adding both black and white to a colour when it's not necessary to add either. Seahen 20:13, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, a note on fine detail: Nuvola icons are generally made to be clearly visible at small sizes and show only as much detail as can be shown in 128x128 pixels. Thus, I'd suggest removing some of the stars from the Brazilian flag and enlarging the remaining ones; also, when you're doing the US flag, I wouldn't try to fit all fifty stars on it. (If you really want to make a true-to-life rendering of the flag, you can always make two versions of the icon.) Seahen 20:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Retract the above comment: after I thought about it, I remembered some Nuvola icons other than flags (such as ) have equally fine detail that also doesn't render at low resolutions, so simplifying the flags would be a stylistic departure that we're trying not to make. Still, I think the outside border on each charge should be thickened up to a full pixel, as should any fimbrillations that aren't already that thick.

As for your new Albania flag: it's a perfect example of what we're after! The only thing I could think of adding would be a drop shadow, offset down 1/2 pixel and right 1/2 pixel. (All quantities are in terms of the default rendering size of 60x60.) I can't wait to show these to relevant Wikipedia WikiProjects.

BTW, what software do you use to make these flags? Do you do them all one-by-one or do you have a batch script? Seahen 03:06, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Given that you've got the original shading down so amazingly, and I haven't, I wouldn't mind at all if you were to overwrite the flags I did with your versions. Seahen 03:10, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]