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

[Sean DALY]

I think studio shots and 'in situ' shots can coexist and that we
shouldn't pass up the opportunity of benefiting from my photographer
friend's generosity.

I remember many years ago seeing a software box with an office shot
which showed two dynamic executives effortlessly using the software,
but the screen was tiny in the shot, so the graphic designer cunningly
placed the same screenshot in the photo's PC as a 2D overlay above and
to the right, straddling the photo and whitespace of the software box.
As I remember it was a big box full of floppies (I'm dating myself...)
but maybe a similar treatment could be used to show Sugar's
collaboration?

USB sticks are of course vital (even when the day comes we have an OEM
partner who will preinstall Sugar ;-)

Sean



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
<christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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