[Marketing] Creating small icons for social media - local chapter

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

Hello Peter,

maybe you should change the logo.

https://twitter.com/OSGeoIE

In the tweets the text IE is not readable.

Maybe it looks better with white background and dark letters.

Astrid

Am 30.01.2018 15:30 schrieb Peter Mooney:
> Thank you very much Nick! This is excellent. I appreciate the image.
> 
> I'll get working with Inkscape now.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:28 AM, nicolas bozon
> <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> There isn't such 'image editing' guide in our new branding
>> guidelines, however the process to create your own twitter avatar is
>> rather simple:
>> 
>> - Open page 36 of the PDF style guide in Inkscape or Illustrator
>> - Select the desired objects and paste it to a new document
>> - Edit the text layer according to your need
>> - Export it as a 400x400 pixels PNG image
>> 
>> Please find the resulting image attached. It should fit to twitter
>> recommended
>> dimensions so you can use it directly.
>> 
>> For your twitter profile background image, please consider the
>> resources
>> available at https://unsplash.com/search/photos/drone [5], as
>> indicated by
>> the styleguide (page 13). You may still have to crop the selected
>> picture to
>> a 1500x500 pixel JPEG to get the perfect header :)
>> 
>> Hope it helps,
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 2018-01-29 21:36 GMT+01:00 Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Hi Jody, List,
>>> 
>>> Currently, I'm mostly responsible for OSGeoIE on Twitter.
>>> 
>>> Responding to [1] and [2] here - is there a 'how to' guide to
>>> create social media icons for local chapters? I am rather clueless
>>> around image editing/manipulation/etc. Apologies if I have missed
>>> links.
>>> 
>>> The OSGeo IE Chapter does have an example of a larger branding
>>> logo in [2].
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> [1] https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/955685364349378560 [1]
>>> [2] https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/955840912675844097 [2]
>>> [3]
>>> 
>> 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding/subbrands/local-chapter/ie
>>> [3]
>>> 
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> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/955685364349378560
> [2] https://twitter.com/jodygarnett/status/955840912675844097
> [3]
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding/subbrands/local-chapter/ie
> [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
> [5] https://unsplash.com/search/photos/drone
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