GNOME Wallpaper Contest

The GNOME Wallpaper Contest is ended!
Please read CAREFULLY

• You can send as many wallpapers as you like. If you provide more resolutions we suggest you to submit an archive zip/tar with those files.
• Please provide an unique name for your files: for example, if the title of your wallpaper is "Foo", please rename your files to foo-1920x1200.png, foo-1280x1024.jpg and so on...
• The name and the e-mail address must be valid, and they are the ones that will be credited. We will contact you before announcing the winners with that e-mail address (in case you win).
• All the wallpapers must be released under the GNU GPL License.
• We welcome any type of image, 3D art, vectors, photos, and pixmaps (see "Quality Guidelines" below). Because this contest is for wallpapers, we need high resolutions: 1280x1024 is minimum but 1920x1200 is really appreciated.
• The limit for uploads on this server is around 2 MBytes. If you encounter any problems with files around that size, please make them smaller.
• Accepted extensions are: jpg jpeg png svg svgz (tar.)bz2 (tar.)gz zip
• Because this server doesn't have unlimited bandwidth, we ask you to use common sense when uploading images. Do not abuse of the server uploading enormous images if you don't feel we should really look at them at that size. Basically treat this upload server as it was your own and respect it.
• Winners will be part of GNOME 2.24! Of course they must reach a good quality to be approved, but we are sure they will!
• Have lots of fun!

QUALITY GUIDELINES

We use the following points to determine an image's quality as a wallpaper. These are taken from http://designinginterfaces.com/Deep_Background

• Soft focus. Keep lines fuzzy and avoid too much small detail -- sharp lines interfere with readability of the content atop it, especially if that content is text or small icons. (You can kind of get away with sharp lines if they are low-contrast, but even then, text doesn't work well over them.)
• Color gradients. Bright, saturated colors are okay, but again, hard lines between them are not. Allow colors to blend into each other. In fact, if you don't have an image to use in the background, you can create a simple color gradient in your favorite drawing tool -- it still looks better than a solid color. (You don't need to store or download pure gradients as images, either. On the Web, you can create them by repeating one-pixel-wide strips, either horizontally or vertically. In systems where you can use code to generate large areas of color, gradients are generally easy to program.)
• Depth cues. Fuzzy detail and vertical color gradients are two features that tell our visual system about distance. To understand why, imagine a photograph of a hilly landscape -- the farther away something is, the softer and hazier the color is. Other depth cues include texture gradients (features that get smaller as they get farther away) and lines radiating from vanishing points.
• No strong focal points. The background shouldn't compete with the main content for the user's attention. Diffuse (weak) focal points can work, but make sure they contribute to a balanced composition on the whole page, rather than distract the viewer from seeing the parts of the page they should look at instead.
• Various aspect ratio compatibility. The background should look good using different aspect ratio, like 4:3, 5:4, 16:9 and 16:10, when using stretched visualisation.

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