When I saw the headline I confused it with the one from XP [0], and was imagining a team constructing that hill, laying the grass, etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image)
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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
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Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#132That's a lot of effort for something god knows how many people change as pretty much the first thing after they first login to a new system.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the "default background quality setting"? (I'm not a windows user)
In Windows when you set a wallpaper it (sometimes) silently transcodes the one you selected into a new, smaller version. It doesn't always, there's a heuristic, but it's assumed it happens to prevent people from selecting a 1TB terapixel photo and have it destroy the machine. Anyway, since it transcodes the WP into a JPEG, it has the ability to select a compression ratio. That ratio is pretty famously https://superus…
The size threshold is now at 25 MB, I think.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such an ignorant take. The default wallpaper is seen by millions if not billions of people. Many never change it. It's an important part of the branding. The total cost of the shoot, including equipment, salaries, the studio, etc. is NOTHING to Microsoft and its marketing budget. It's not like they had to prioritize this over anything else, they are printing money left and right, they are a trillion dollar co…
Have you used the Office365 Suite lately?
Yes, it's still the best office suite in the market.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the "default background quality setting"? (I'm not a windows user)
In Windows when you set a wallpaper it (sometimes) silently transcodes the one you selected into a new, smaller version. It doesn't always, there's a heuristic, but it's assumed it happens to prevent people from selecting a 1TB terapixel photo and have it destroy the machine. Anyway, since it transcodes the WP into a JPEG, it has the ability to select a compression ratio. That ratio is pretty famously https://superus…
By far the most appropriate use of the word "degenerate" in the derogatory sense.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#136I think the wallpaper is minimalistic, elegant.. and boring, which is why I usually end up using a wallpaper from KDE Plasma. https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=299&ord=latest
These are nice wallpapers. I hope this works with the Variety wallpaper manager.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#137Shame MS don’t spend this much time on effort on… every other part of their design for everything.
They do, that’s why they have like 5 competing design languages
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#138Although this is great somehow in my opinion this was the best windoze wallpaper It somehow captures my soul, perhaps because i was very young when i saw it https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
Is there a name for this visual style?
I don’t have an exact answer either, but based on this particular image, “duotone effect” is definitely a keyword.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#139This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
On the other hand this will be shown to bilions of people almost everyday as a front screen of Windows
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#140Despite having seen this image thousands of times, I never considered it might have originated from practical effects, even if it was composited. Very cool. The composite sounds like no picnic, either: >With over 3,000 photos captured from the shoot, the initial stage of the composite was an exercise in patience as Munko diligently went through all of the assets and picked the best ones suited for the final image. He…
This comment is just a copy/paste of a quarter of the article.
It’s perhaps an effective strategy to force us to read the articles.