[Marketing] Ars Technica article on 250, 000 XO-1s for India: old Sugar home view in photo :-(

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

And one more thing: As we are shooting images of laptops, I would also
suggest shooting the USB sticks...

Christian


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt <
christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean--I think it would be great to generate a repertoire of studio
> images against a white background. I can help generate screenshots that we
> can put on the screens--I agree it's easier to do in post.
>
> Does everyone agree this would be worthwhile (in addition to also shooting
> images of Sugar in use)?
>
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian, in fact I have a friend who is a studio photographer and
>> when I asked last week he offered to do ad-quality studio shots on a
>> white background.
>>
>> He said he preferred adding screens in Photoshop, that it's too
>> complicated to direct light onto a computer without making the screen
>> look awful.
>>
>> I have half a dozen XO-1s, a Classmate, an EeePC and and Acer Aspire One.
>>
>> Ideally, shots with both v0.82 on an XO-1 and SoaS on the XO-1 and the
>> other machines woould be cool I think...
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
>> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sean, on laptop.org we used retouched images of the XO with a mockup of
>> the
>> > interface on the screen that was later added in Photoshop:
>> > http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/index.shtml
>> >
>> > I think it would be useful to shoot Sugar 0.82 on the XO-1 and also
>> other
>> > the classmate and other hardware isolated against a white background,
>> > similar to the way these photos were shot. Perhaps Mike can help with
>> that?
>> > We could point him towards these images for guidance...
>> >
>> >
>> > Christian
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/india-embraces-olpc-buys-250000-xo-laptops.ars
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know if a similar XO-1 photo with Sugar 0.82 is available?
>> >>
>> >> Sean
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