Re: [libreoffice-design] New web banners. Feedback?

so you used photoshop to create these?
man, that's not cool. graphics for free software should be created using
free software.
all your design is great, but great design done with non-free software is
never as good as the same design done with free software. many designers
(even in the FLOSS community) don't care about this, but it is really
important.
if free software design is done on a proprietary system using proprietary
software formats, how can people change it using free software on a free OS?
if one doesn't think that using free software is a good thing, why should he
support free software (such as libo)?

design source files are code too. the same principles applied to software
are appliable to design too, so if the source isn't published, the design is
proprietary. if (as in your case) the design is released under a free
software license (LGPL among others) you *have to* publish the source code,
it's not optional.

i think a lot of us free software people should finally start thinking of
our design as something that has to be as free as our software.

aleksandar, i don't want to offend you in any way, but i had to say
this. free software is also about the tools we use to create it.
so please don't be scared and keep up the great work, but if you can find
the time (and haven't already done it), check out
inkscape<http://www.inkscape.org>(extremely powerful FLOSS vector
graphics editor) and consider using it for
future designs. vector is better for most kinds of design anyway ;)

tobias


2011/9/26 Aleksandar <devaleksandar@gmail.com>

> Thank you Charles,
> I really believe that good product design can make huge difference,
> I am part of startup community for more than 3 years now and I worked with
> many entrepreneurs and developers so I understand how important design can
> be.
> I am trying to create graphic that is clean,user friendly and easy to use
> and understand.
> As I already said, LibreOffice  is great project and I am glad to be part
> of
> it.
>
> Cheers,
> Aleksandar
>
> 2011/9/26 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>
>
> > Aleksandar,
> >
> > I have no artistic ability but I'm inpressed by what you did.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Charles.
> > Le 26 sept. 2011 19:48, "Aleksandar" <devaleksandar@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > 2011/9/26 Vitorio Furusho <furusho@openoffice.org>
> > >
> > > > Aleksandar,
> > > >
> > > > They were excellent.
> > > >
> > > > Congratulations.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > >
> > > > *Furusho, Vitorio*
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