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Summary
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English: Map of Swiss Cantons with their flags covering their territories |
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| Source | Own work |
| Author | Ojw (talk · contribs) |
From edits by User:Ojw, it can easily be ascertained that this file was created from various free images of Swiss canton flags, per information from this page and User:Ojw/Switzerland, and the base map originated from File:Cantons of Switserland.jpg
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Summary
Entitled: "bloody big PNG"...
Some explanation is in order I suppose...
- Take a Swiss map, remove text...
- For each area
- Create a new transparent layer
- Open the flag, paste it into this layer
- Resize the flag to fit that area
- Go back to the blank map, and magic-select the area (selection is in the shape of a canton)
- Grow the selection by a pixel or two if necessary
- Invert the selection (everything outside the area is selected)
- Go back to the flag layer. Delete the selection (i.e. everything outside the area)
- Layer now contains an oddly-shaped flag, and everything else is transparent.
- Repeat as necessary
- Merge all the flag-layers into one, for convenience
- Select-by-colour the borders, blacken them, fuzz them, colour-to-alpha, and make that a semitransparent layer representing "borders"
- Select the not-needed regions, whiten them, and make that into a semitransparent layer to neaten the edges
- Export as PNG, wait for comments, redo bits according to readers' comments and preference...
There's also a version with a semi-white layer over the flags to lighten the image a bit and make the borders more distinct
Original upload log
Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons using For the Common Good.
The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
| Date/Time | Dimensions | User | Comment |
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| 23:06, 3 February 2005 | 1,366 × 866 (529,234 bytes) | w:en:Ojw (talk | contribs) | (Entitled: "bloody big PNG"... {{FDL}} ) |
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| current | 01:44, 26 January 2013 | | 1,366 × 866 (517 KB) | Fredlyfish4 | Transferred from en.wikipedia: see original upload log above |
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