I am in an image spiral. That is I am doing nothing but search images and download them. Not the images of stars or sportsmen.
It all started with the idea that my app is slightly (?) dull in its appearance. So I need to put actual background images for screens - not just drawables with linear or radial gradients in bluish colors. Why me for graphics - am I not the coder? But you already know that I am one woman army. One lazy woman army.
And of course I was excited to find lot of background free images which can be modified and used - something like GPL or LGPL. And the best part was those images were editable - using inkscape.
The excitement did not wear off easily even after realizing that editing and bringing them to good shape is very very tough. I did, what I have been doing all these years - took the images and deleted unwanted text pixel by each pixel using GIMP eraser. Still it was patchy.
I did take one image some how. Then the next part was searching for images for the puzzle. Puzzle where the pieces are all are rotated and you need to fix it. First I took some random photos like flowers, sun rise, sun set etc. Then I decided I will only use famous buildings. As I read some where, instead of creating 4 sets of each images, I only put one in xhdpi.
Already my apk size was 6 meg. And little googling told me that there are apps with thousands of images for this rotating puzzle. How can I compete with them?
So now I am thinking of removing that part from app.
But there is a silver lining. Actual silver lining because Bangalore is having pre- monsoon showers. And the weather is good.
Good weather for my gardening. Which involves cutting some branches from few of my potted plants and just sticking them in wet mud in empty pots. Because old wise people have told me that in rainy season even if you throw a branch of plant, it will live.
Here is the image for you. Not edited by me.
It is a water falls in the palace of Versailles.
It all started with the idea that my app is slightly (?) dull in its appearance. So I need to put actual background images for screens - not just drawables with linear or radial gradients in bluish colors. Why me for graphics - am I not the coder? But you already know that I am one woman army. One lazy woman army.
And of course I was excited to find lot of background free images which can be modified and used - something like GPL or LGPL. And the best part was those images were editable - using inkscape.
The excitement did not wear off easily even after realizing that editing and bringing them to good shape is very very tough. I did, what I have been doing all these years - took the images and deleted unwanted text pixel by each pixel using GIMP eraser. Still it was patchy.
I did take one image some how. Then the next part was searching for images for the puzzle. Puzzle where the pieces are all are rotated and you need to fix it. First I took some random photos like flowers, sun rise, sun set etc. Then I decided I will only use famous buildings. As I read some where, instead of creating 4 sets of each images, I only put one in xhdpi.
Already my apk size was 6 meg. And little googling told me that there are apps with thousands of images for this rotating puzzle. How can I compete with them?
So now I am thinking of removing that part from app.
But there is a silver lining. Actual silver lining because Bangalore is having pre- monsoon showers. And the weather is good.
Good weather for my gardening. Which involves cutting some branches from few of my potted plants and just sticking them in wet mud in empty pots. Because old wise people have told me that in rainy season even if you throw a branch of plant, it will live.
Here is the image for you. Not edited by me.
It is a water falls in the palace of Versailles.
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