Need Opinions Please

[kerravonsen]

I need your help, oh readers (all three of you...). I have decided I need to do a ruthless winnow of my Tiles collection (these are "tile" images I've made myself) and only keep the very best ones, and toss out the boring ones (except the ones which are actually being used, like on my website, of course). So I beg you to go take a look, and opine about at least one tile that should be tossed, and one that shouldn't be (so as to save the worthy, if any).

Thank you for your attention.

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I won't suggest any in particular but I would say that in general I like the swirly coloured ones, and I don't so much like the ones that would make vertical bars when tiled. Of the black and white and grey ones I like the lace styles best. Of course this is just the ignorant opinion of a non-tiler.

[kerravonsen]

Of course this is just the ignorant opinion of a non-tiler.

What, is there something special about the people who make these things, as opposed to the people who are looking at these things? Your eyes are just as good, I would think.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's hard to imagine what some of them will look like tiled, but my favourites are:

b7logo2, blue5, the etches, the gblue_clouds, the rainbs, spirals 1-5, turk5, and the wooden next and prev arrows.

I'm not so keen on the more complex ones, but then I like unobtrusive backgrounds.

Not sure if that helps.

[kerravonsen]

Not sure if that helps.

Yes it does, thank you. Thank you all.

my $0.02 rant on obnoxious webpage backgrounds

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing that annoys me, it's a background that tries to drag my eyes away from the foreground text, or is simply not a "background" sort of color (i.e. it's too bright or obnoxious). I don't care how "pretty" the background image is, if I cannot easily read the content of the webpage then the page doesn't strike me as at least moderately well-designed, and I move on. It's basically the difference between a preteen webpage look and an adult webpage look.

So: I'd say keep blue2, gblue1, gblue4, gblue4a (which looks cool "on top of" gblue4 as a background!), gblue_cloud1-4, lav2, lavweave looks funky, mblue2, sfcb_b1, sfcb_b2, sfcb_b3, sfcb_lb1, (sglogo1 would be good as a single image at the top of an SG-themed page), (ditto on ts_logo), turk2, turk4, vine, (wood_next and wood_prev are just link-images, I'm assuming).

Use the rest as single-instance images without words on top of them. That's my vote. Some of them are real pretty, some are interesting, many I'd cringe to see tiled on the background and sucking the life-force out of my eyes.

But then, that's just me. :)

Re: my $0.02 rant on obnoxious webpage backgrounds

[kerravonsen]

Er, these aren't meant to be just webpage background tiles, but desktop background tiles. I consider webpage tiles to be a sub-set of desktop tiles, because I think that something that looks good on a web-page (subtle, not too much contrast, soothing to the eye) would look just as good on a destop, but not the other way around. However, I didn't think it worth making separate directories for them -- do you think I should?

Re: my $0.02 rant on obnoxious webpage backgrounds

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

Sorry; my misunderstanding.

In which case, the rainbow ones would be nice for a desktop too. :)

If you're still soliciting comments, it might be good to indicate which ones you want to put on webpages...

For desktops, I'm kind of boring: I tend to prefer a single, flat color (or a gradation of one color from light to dark across the desktop), and then put a single image in the center. I had Methos for a while. Now it's a nice wildlife picture that a friend took. Kinda boring, I admit, but it's not competing for eye-time.

Re: my $0.02 rant on obnoxious webpage backgrounds

[kerravonsen]

Well, I have now (am in the process of uploading) split the tiles into web-tiles and desk-tiles, though some might be disputable as to which category they fit in. Some which you consider unsuitable for web-pages I actually am using for web-pages (such as the wood-pattern one; it's a navbar background).

As for desktop backgrounds, I'm happier to have mine bright and busy, because I run a script to change the background every ten minutes anyway.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Well... I've no visual imagination to speak of, but I'm finding the black-and-white circles too busy, especially 3 and 4; I think they'd give me a headache in an all-over pattern, unless they were set to colors that barely contrasted. The spirals don't send me, either. I prefer the plainer ones, that are low-contrast shades of one color - the red weave, sand, most of the blue, mblue, gblue (particularly the clouds there), green, and lavender ones. Of the lace variations, I particularly like the 10s, 11s, 12s.

Overall, I guess it just depends on what you consider boring.

[kerravonsen]

Interesting; some people like the spirals, and some don't. I agree, though some of the circles are just not nice; the laces are much nicer. And the gblue clouds are among my favourites.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't hate the spirals; I think I'd just find them a little busy for my taste when tiled. If I were able and had time, I'd download them all and tile them to check, but the computer's acting up and doesn't seem to want to cooperate.