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> In fact, they kind of ruined it by cleaning it up so much that it looks like just another stock digital creation. This was what disappointed me the most. The
by satysin 7y ago
> In fact, they kind of ruined it by cleaning it up so much that it looks like just another stock digital creation.
This was what disappointed me the most. They went to all that trouble to be able to take a photograph of a physical object then modified it so much that it ended up looking like a generic render from a Windows forum.
While the XP wallpaper is obviously iconic my personal favourites were the ones with Windows 7. They had many weird and wonderful ones in that collection :)
- FussyZeus 7y agoRight? Any of those photos that they composited together into the final would've been great, or to just release them as a collection of wallpapers. Instead they took them all and rammed them together into something that looked less interesting. This is really a good demonstration of the law of diminishing returns relative to art. Sometimes less is more. A more complicated and weird process doesn't always, and in fact very rarely, increases the value of the output work.