deskthority

nice!

it's not a clack, it's a brobot. so everything ok.

Oh. For me, I actually don't like too many novelty caps in the header rotation...

But since we have only four Clacks in the rotation right now, and three of them are Wingnuts, I'm fine with a nice brobot cap like this. On a BS keyboard, too.

Me neither. I feel like too many would cheapen it and make it feel tacky. The vintage keyboards are a lot more interesting!

Muirium wrote: Aye, chief. I still haven't come up with an adequate way to preview these before making them live. (Anyone got a layer of the site logo in its accurate size and position?) Let's see if this is any better:

Chzel SSK box - Wider Right.jpg

Looks good to me. The box corner slides right in front of the bowl of the R in DESKTHORITY, which is a nice accident. Anyone got better ideas or do I make this live?

You and your post editing, Seebart. I only spotted that last bit of advice a touch too late… look at the top of the page!

I like this one

Muirium wrote:
You and your post editing, Seebart. I only spotted that last bit of advice a touch too late… look at the top of the page

true, I do quite a bit of post editing. I know it can be slightly unclear at times, sorry!

Cleaned that for you:

Faker! The repeating pattern on the (faked) left is what really needs sorted out.

I might take a new crop to position the logo more in line with ours as well. But I'm not on my Photoshop machine. (A mighty PowerPC, because I use it oldschool, dawg.)

good enough dawg?
and while we're at it what about my super duper snoopy brobot header from yesterday?

We're getting there. But I'm still going to recrop from the original and get an artful placement of the IBM text in our header's context.

Snoop's Kish looks so bright in that shot. And wide! I'm imposing an informal Clack cap on Clack caps in headers — otherwise we really will mislead people showing up at the site wondering where all the auctions are — so it has to be a 10/10 shot. I'll have a go at those when I'm Photoshopping too. But I think most of the shots were way too stingy for our required left space.

yeah, these shots were made with the brobot in focus and as the main part of the pic, cause I promised Bro Caps to do some shots of it. So sadly far away from being good base material for header images, cause everything around the brobot is too blurred and in some cases overexposed to make it even more outstanding.

vswv had a quite good week:

http://deskthority.net/post206070.html#p206070

(testing -- doesn't work at all unfortunately, and the original is too small for a better crop)

Trickier than it looks! Let's try it rotated instead:
I'd never let it in otherwise, but that green background is a nice pairing! Tempted…

Hi there,

I can say I'm very glad my pics are discuss this way..
I promess I'll give up better ones within the coming week, contribute to this site would be an honor to me !

the caps need to be moved to the right and them some of that green background cloned to the left for the logo area! I´ll try it later.

Does anyone like this one ?

And this one?

I like it !

Yup. Ramnes' monochrome one is pretty cool. And a bit of a keyboard nerdery test: what the hell is that anyway?

i$: sharper focus please! Especially at the right side of the picture, as the one of the three LEDs that's okay sharp is hiding behind the DT logo.

It is ok. I will not dismount again the IBM AT to take the picture.
There was no light and therefore the dof was short. This is the reason for the difference in focus.

Nice one, ramnes! Fits very well. Also: what is the subject?

I like both idollar`s and ramnes because their not the typical keyboard shots! This is what we need, this is what I should be taking pictures like!

C'mon guys, it's a model M !

http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/cherr ... t9771.html

Hmm… I'll try another crop.

I like it! Good lighting, and the AZERTY makes it subtly special.

Thanks for the crop Mu

Since the left side is basically pitch black in the photo, could always move the board over to the right so the DT logo isn't blocked. I'll try that now.

Testing

That's better. I like the mods unobscured. Great shot!

/me likes

As people should know by now, I love a good pattern. But will it clash with the logo…
Phew. Not all of them do!

Crops from Seebart's original picture, of course.

Maybe it would be beneficial to add a gradient to the left hand side to not interfere with the DT logo; something like this: