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Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop

The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the illustration workshop. Anyone can make a request for an illustration to be improved or created for a Wikipedia article. Clicking the "New Request" button will bring you to a standard template for submitting requests, as well as general advice that should be followed.

Advice to requesters

All requests: Please make sure your request is "legitimate" by copyright. If the image(s) are in the public domain or freely licensed, you are fine. If the image(s) are "Fair use", there are only certain things we can do with them without falling afoul of Wikipedia's fair-use policies. If you are requesting assistance with a copyright or fair-use image, don't display it on this page; place {{GLNF|Example.png|caption|align=left}} to create a link to it. Do not add the File: extension. Our fair-use policy does not allow displaying fair-use images out of their articles on ANY account. Please check back regularly to see if progress has been made or if any additional questions need to be answered before the request can be completed. If a request is done to your satisfaction, please mark it with {{resolved}}. SVG requests: Make sure your request can actually BE vectorized. Note that vector drawings are not suitable for certain applications. We generally use SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such. Certain things, photographs especially, are totally impossible to vectorize. Per our non-free content policy, vectorization of copyrighted images is not permitted. If a vectorized non-free image is desired, seek out such an image from the copyright holder.

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AlphaGo logo

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  Faithful to PNG source at DeepMind
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  Compromise version with outlines added to white stones and text for rendering on white background
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  Stones and text colors reversed for display on white background.

Article(s)

AlphaGo

Request

Very hard to see. It came from this website: http://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html. -- George Ho (talk) 00:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

 Request taken by Mliu92 (talk) 18:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC).

@George Ho: I understand the request to have this logo redrawn as SVG. Please replace the existing PNG with the redrawn SVG if you agree. I did cheat on the border of the "swirl" – rather than crop the vector path accordingly, I used a thick white border to simulate the slight downsizing. I note the original logo is essentially transparent here, so on anything other than a white background, the SVG will not be identical.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 18:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mliu92: How about changing font color to white with some black thin borders of text? As for the circles, the arrangement of black and white colors is wrong. The top and bottom circles should be black; the left and right circles, white. You might know which color should be for each of other circles. --George Ho (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@George Ho: The linked source PNG has white opaque text; since the current PNG on Wikipedia has black text I assumed the request was for a version of the logo to be displayed on a white background, and hence I reversed the colors of the text and the colors of the stones (white stones in the source PNG are rendered as black in this SVG, and black stones are rendered as open circles). The "black" stones in the source PNG are actually white outlines with no fill, so they take on the background color. Adding an outline to the text takes the SVG re-draw away the source - then there's white stones and white stroke stones on a white background and every stone becomes invisible. I can upload a version of the logo with an opaque black background if that helps, but it's also problematic in that I would need to know the correct padding (where to put the borders) for the logo. Let me know what you need.

I do not have a source for the "reversed" coloring of the current Wikipedia PNG, and the "correct" original coloring is invisible unless displayed on a dark background. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 22:34, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually, take your time. However, do not directly use the current PNG version. I asked for the previous PNG version (before someone else replaced it). Have you checked the official website of AlphaGo? George Ho (talk) 22:40, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@George Ho: I worked directly from the PNG that is on the official website of AlphaGo. I uploaded a new version of the SVG with a black background in order to keep the coloring the same as the "official" PNG, although the "official" PNG has no background and is essentially invisible when displayed here. The "official" PNG relies on having a dark-colored background in order to display the "black" stones. I've uploaded a number of alternative SVGs. Revert to a different one if the current one is not what you had in mind. Mliu92 (talk) 16:10, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Closely accurate. The borders seem too thick. Can you thin them, not too thin though? George Ho (talk) 23:08, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

@George Ho: It was suggested that the AlphaGo logo falls under Public Domain as a logo that consists strictly of simple geometric shapes and text, so I've uploaded the alternatives into Commons. They're up as separate files, and I've also thinned out the outline on the text.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 16:30, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Let's hear Masem's view about copyright of this logo then. George Ho (talk) 18:37, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

The shapes would fall under simple within US consideration. The only possible source of creativity that might fall into play is the gradient, but is a rather simple effect, and would be likely considered too simple for creativity. --MASEM (t) 20:09, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Tunbridge Wells RFC crest

Article(s)

Tunbridge Wells RFC

Request

Please can the white background be made transparent? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 17:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

 Request taken by Mliu92 (talk) 16:07, 19 February 2016 (UTC).

@The C of E: I edited the JPG using GIMP and produced a PNG with transparent background, since JPG doesn't contain transparency information. The JPG should probably be deleted and replaced with the PNG when you have a chance.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 16:07, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mliu92: I have made the switch and put the db-f1 template on the old one. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 23:15, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mliu92: Hi, sorry to be picky but I have noticed that around the letters below the crest, there are still small traces of white on it opposed to full transparency. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:25, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

@The C of E: There's not a lot of data (resolution) to fully reduce all the white spots. I've taken another shot at it but beyond this I'd recommend taking the request to the photography (raster graphists) workshop.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 16:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mliu92: Thank you very much for your work. The only reason I didn't take it to the photo workshop was because I thought they'd just bounce it back here as a non-photo but i'll keep it in mind. Thanks again. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 16:42, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Convert university seal to SVG

Article(s)

Emporia State University

Request

Would someone be able to convert this PNG to a SVG? I received it from here and if you right click the image, it becomes larger. Thanks. -- 🇺🇸 Corkythehornetfan 🇺🇸 02:49, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s)

Lead production graph

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  Lead production graph

Article(s)

Lead

Request

This image was fairly recently created in this workshop. I have liked the picture much initially, but over time I found need for some improvement. First of all, I think the graph needs to be extended to the period between 5000 BCE and 3000 BCE (see Figure 1 in this document, page 5 in the pdf file / page 1171). Second, it would be great to stretch the graph vertically. And third, it could be a good idea to make the lines and dots a bit thinner and the fonts a bit smaller relatively to the size of the picture. (Also, the "A" in the upper left corner needs to be removed.)-- R8R (talk) 13:53, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hiroshima Flower Festival

Article(s)

Hiroshima Flower Festival

Request

please create a new, undated png or svg, by removing the date and centering the hiragana "Hiroshima" inside the red parallelogram… -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:53, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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