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

[Peter Mooney]

Hi Astrid,

Thanks to Nicolas' help and tips I've created another Twitter icon (round,
dark lettering) - so I've just used that as the profile picture now.

Best wishes,

Peter

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
wrote:

> 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/brandin
>> g/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/brandin
>> g/subbrands/local-chapter/ie
>> [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>> [5] https://unsplash.com/search/photos/drone
>>
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