Ubuntu Eoan Ermine 19.10 Community Wallpaper Competition - WINNERS!

You need to remove the trailing '*'s. Someone needs to fix the link.

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For anyone else getting the “Invalid Dynamic Link” error aswell, here is the fixed voting forum link:

https://forms.gle/qyvcfG6aeRaZfPVF9

Thanks! I tried to make the link bold, but I guess Discourse had other plans.

Now fixed.

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No worries, I figured that was what happened.

Too many great & worthy choices… we need an eoan-community-wallpapers pack for the runners-up :slight_smile:

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The polarbear image I believe was already used in a package, I think that when I was working on the Ubuntu Cinnamon project and doing wallpaper stuff I found it.

Anyways I just voted. I made sure I didn’t vote for my own stuff! :slight_smile:

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That’d be awesome! Contact Ubuntu Developers about that.

I simplified my decision making process by separating it into several stages:

  1. Went through the entire topic and downloaded all pictures of good quality.
  2. Tried setting them as wallpapers one by one to see if everything looks good and not too noisy.
  3. Deleted the ones that weren’t so good as wallpapers (with a pain in my heart, some photos are just breathtaking).
  4. In the end I was left with just the right number of images.

Sharing it in case someone has a tough time deciding which ones to keep.

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Are you talking about this photo ?

Yes, I feel like I’ve seen it before

I took it this year, and have only uploaded here to be used on opensource. Probably you saw something else of the same nature. :slight_smile:

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Hello!

We’re very pleased to announce the winners of the 19.10 wallpaper competition.

  1. Ermine diving vector with squares on the background by @designicolas
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  2. Das Boot by @jerosguitar
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  3. Ermine-wallpaper eoan by @g0b
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  4. ShenZhongBurial by @meinhoff
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  5. 80s styled glitch variation by @zero-1729
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  6. 07 720 Ubuntu by @mantissa
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  7. 3 min (2) by @schabing
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  8. Milky Way by @marcik
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  9. Daytime Flow H2O by @cruzmateus
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  10. Sky Sparkles by @jellyjoe
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Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered. This releases competition has been the best yet, and we’ll be doing it all over again once the 20.04 “FF” cycle starts.

I will be in touch with all the winners by email (to the email address you used to register here) to ask for the final versions of your images.

Cheers!

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Oof. Didn’t work.

I just wish I knew how to get the best pictures! I will in the future also enter in Lubuntu and other spins/flavors and tell them not to put it in if it gets into Ubuntu.

Wow, I succeeded in not picking even one of the winners. I guess that is similar to my lotto skills. :slight_smile:

But congratulations to all the winners though!!

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I don’t remember seeing #6 when I voted. Glad it’s a winner :slight_smile:

Congratulations to the winners!
Can I make a suggestion for the next wallpaper contest?
Why not spice things up for the next round and ask for submissions of wallpapers that transition through the day i.e. the morning - noon - evening - night kind of wallpapers?
Maybe you’ll then need to open the contest sufficiently in advance to give people the time to come up with such transitioning wallpapers and each person can submit only one set.
Please consider this!

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Nah… not the best idea.

Why not?
I think people might love the challenge for an LTS version. The winning wallpapers would be used for two years or more after all. I’m sure users would appreciate community derived wallpapers that transition through the day.
The usual winners might enjoy a tougher challenge as well once in a while…
And even you can submit your usual random wallpapers with random people in them with sub-optimal lighting/exposure as long as they transition through the day. :stuck_out_tongue:

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To get photos like these(in the ones that are scenes/landscapes not designs) it’s standard to use a decent DSLR camera from Nikon or Canon shooting in RAW formats. With RAW, you’re taking a photo but also saving ALL the data that the sensor captures. It’s equivalent to an undeveloped negative, but you are also getting the picture the way the camera would develop it internally.

The magic happens when you open it in a developer, the industry standard is Adobe’s Lightroom, but in the open-source community we have the very excellent Darktable as well as others.
From there you can adjust the photo in hundreds of ways, non-destructively.