2020-06-13, 14:48
Estuary Music Viz Redesign
Before
It's been often commented that fanart and visualisations have a blue tinge to them, this is because the Estuary background image you see when there is no fanart available is permanently active, so the fanart is placed above this blue background creating the blue tinge to fanart. In addition fanart has a transparency effect applied so in the case when both fanart of visualisation is active the visualisation can be seen though the fanart.
After
As you can see below, when there is fanart available (or visualisation is active) the blue background image is now disabled and is now only enabled if there's no fanart or visualisation active.
Disabling the background image when fanart is available necessitated a redesign as it had the effect of darkening the fanart which aided readability of the info text. In order to retain readability of the info test a new overlay was necessary, however this is only needed when the info text is displayed to allow the white info text to stand out against the fanart. However I've tried to make this overlay as transparent as possible so the fanart can be seen through it, while at the same time retaining readability of the text. The opportunity was taken while these changes were being made to more closely align the layout of music info to how video info is displayed to provide greater consistency.
The transparency effect that was also always active on fanart has now also been removed for the case where a visualisation is NOT active, so now the transparency is only in effect when both fanart & visualisation are active.
Before
It's been often commented that fanart and visualisations have a blue tinge to them, this is because the Estuary background image you see when there is no fanart available is permanently active, so the fanart is placed above this blue background creating the blue tinge to fanart. In addition fanart has a transparency effect applied so in the case when both fanart of visualisation is active the visualisation can be seen though the fanart.
After
As you can see below, when there is fanart available (or visualisation is active) the blue background image is now disabled and is now only enabled if there's no fanart or visualisation active.
Disabling the background image when fanart is available necessitated a redesign as it had the effect of darkening the fanart which aided readability of the info text. In order to retain readability of the info test a new overlay was necessary, however this is only needed when the info text is displayed to allow the white info text to stand out against the fanart. However I've tried to make this overlay as transparent as possible so the fanart can be seen through it, while at the same time retaining readability of the text. The opportunity was taken while these changes were being made to more closely align the layout of music info to how video info is displayed to provide greater consistency.
The transparency effect that was also always active on fanart has now also been removed for the case where a visualisation is NOT active, so now the transparency is only in effect when both fanart & visualisation are active.
