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Offline TempestTopic starter

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Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« on: March 15, 2011, 12:46:05 AM »
Just kiding ;P

I finally got bored with the LoonyBD backrops and decided to fire up the Gimp on my Debian box, ArtPro and PPaint on my Amiga.

A couple of screenshots from my a1200:







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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2011, 12:55:09 AM »
Thumbnails didn't work. Silly billy :hammer:
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2011, 12:55:48 AM »
That's more like it :)
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2011, 01:01:15 AM »
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That's more like it :)


The thumbnails where to small so I removed them :)
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2011, 01:05:14 AM »
Nice!
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 02:32:51 AM »
@ Tempest

Nah... you had it right in the threads title, them screenshots are "@#$%$#! ugly!"... :D
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2011, 04:39:55 AM »
Looks quite nice for default 8color MWB palette.
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2011, 05:16:06 AM »
I think it looks okay, but I think it would looks worlds better in 16 or 32 colors and the memory/speed difference would be so small I'd go for that.
 
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2011, 06:03:53 AM »
Where can I get these backdrops?!
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2011, 08:43:51 AM »
This is just awesome. I seriously wish OS 4 had this look as the default. I never understood what people see in this Mason-Icons stuff.

Edit: To understand my enthusiasm: look at these images on an iPhone without zoom. The patterns will blend just enough to make it look both smooth and crisp. It looks less great on a regular TFT though.
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2011, 08:51:06 AM »
Look pretty nice. I'd probably get a copper fade program to do the backgrounds though.
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2011, 09:38:26 AM »
Anyone knows if the MWB guy was a real designer? I wonder how the full color MWB icon set would have looked like, to bad we all pirated MWB so much he did not want to do it :)
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2011, 11:38:23 AM »
I like the Buddha backdrop :-)

For some of the images I think you could use a flat colour before reducing the number of colours to reduce the dithering in some parts. E.g. you could use a flat blue background for Buddha and use a soft copper rainbow from slightly darker blue to a softer blue.

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8colours will work on ECS at useable speed, 16 won't.

For 4 colours the WB 1.x palette looks nicer, I'd like to have 4-colour iconset that uses 1.3 palette
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2011, 12:32:41 PM »
oThe "Amiga look and feel" always meant 3.1 and 8 color MWB an MUI
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Re: Workbench 3.1, 8 colors and MWB icons is just @#$%$#! ugly!
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2011, 01:23:32 PM »
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oThe "Amiga look and feel" always meant 3.1 and 8 color MWB an MUI


No, it didn't and doesn't. But it's beautiful anyways, at least in this incarnation.
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