 I'm Paul Frills, and I'm Senior Manager for Linux Engineering at Red Hat, and I also am a very long time Fedora contributor and a one-time Fedora project leader. And I still do some work on Fedora Magazine every once in a while, as time allows. So what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about how to make a good image for a Fedora Magazine article. And if you're not sure what I'm talking about, let me call up a new browser here and just give you an idea of what we're talking about. So I just searched for Fedora Magazine featured image. First link is to, for me at least, comes up with our official documentation. So I'm going to go visit that. This is actually the Fedora Magazine official docs. There's a lot of docs here, but one of the things that we editors do is we create featured images. And these featured images are the hopefully pretty pictures that you see that come up at the top of our articles on the magazine. We use those featured images for several things. One of the things that are our publishing platform, which is WordPress, a fantastic free and open source software publishing platform. One of the things that gives us is it gives us some fairly easy functions for having those images pop up for services like Twitter or Facebook or any of the other social sites where we might publish information about our articles. So when we ask people to, hey, come visit the magazine and read this article, they'll get a nice little lozenge that has that image in it. And so there are some guidelines around how we do engines to so that people kind of know what they're getting when they click on it. It gives them an extra hint and maybe it's some extra, some extra desire to follow through and click on that link and come read the docs. Right. Because we always love to if we're going to write an article, we love for people to read it. We have a lot of contributors on the magazine and of course we want to promote them the content that they've lovingly contributed to Fedora. And having a nice image is a way to do that. Today, we're going to pick an article that we have upcoming, which happens to be an article on system D resolve D, which is going to enable some split DNS features in Fedora 33, which at this time at the time of recording this that's in beta. And it's going to be out very soon, but you may be watching this in the future and maybe Fedora 33 is old news by that point. That's fine. Because what we're going to cover here will still apply. So one of the things you can find is that we have an image repository out there and the instructions for cloning it are here. So I'm going to go ahead and I actually have a clone of this already. Now I will caution you the first time you clone this, it is a pretty large repository. And by large, I mean, I think it is getting up towards two gigabytes now, maybe even a little bigger. It's it's pretty big. So leave yourself some time for this. If you need to get your first clone of it, maybe do it overnight or go have a coffee or a bite to eat while you while you grab it. I actually have it already downloaded on my system because I use it all the time. All right, well, let me run through the first little bit here, which is how we get our template going. Now there's an image template that's already in here. And it's stored in the images directory. There it is. I should have probably done long listing. This is just a couple of megs, but it is a it is a template. Now these SVG files, these template files, we open them with a program called Inkscape. And that is also available in Fedora. If you don't have it, it's very easy to install. I think the instructions for that are also here in the documentation. Indeed, there they are. So if you have get an Inkscape, that's all you need. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually launch Inkscape. Now I could go up here to my software and then look for Inkscape and launch it that way. That will work fine. I'll hit that. And I will hit Ctrl O to open a picture. I happen to have this images directory, which is in my, that's in the clone that I already have on my system. I already have it there. So I'm going to go down here. I made a finished product here already, but we're going to work towards that. So you see how I got there. What I'm going to do is I'm going to look for the template file. There it is. Template.svg. And I'm going to open that. And here it is. Here's our template. Now one thing I'm not going to be able to do, I think in this webinar, is I can't teach everybody Inkscape. But there are a lot of tutorials on the web. There's a lot of YouTube videos and other things you can go consult to find out how to use Inkscape. I will tell you that creating nice images in Inkscape, you don't need to do a lot to make a nice looking image. For some definition of nice, right? We definitely have some great artists who've contributed beautiful images over time. Ryan Lurch has made a bunch of beautiful ones. I actually learned a lot by looking at his images and watching him make them and just picking up tips from him. But that is not to say that I know the things he knows. I do not. But I know enough to make something that's nice enough. And I can teach you that really easily. Okay. So here's our template. We've got it open here. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to use the minus key and shrink down my view so you can see the whole thing. I'm going to tour you around a couple things that you wouldn't notice here. One of them is a plus so that we can cruise around here a little bit. One of them is that we've got a bunch of these little backgrounds here. Now, these are kind of, I guess you call these kind of generic backgrounds. We try to use these as little as possible, right? Because otherwise it could be very boring if that's all we ever use for backgrounds. But if you really can't find anything that fits and you don't like anything you're finding, you can fall back on these. So they exist. Also, there's a little note here. And keep this in mind if you're making an image. This tells you, oh, by the way, remember to remove, let me make this bigger. That little note here, we left it in the template, which I think is kind of cool. And it says, let me get it where you can see it. Remember to remove all the unused backgrounds to the left, which cuts out several megabytes of unused data, right? And so, yeah, you do want to remove these before you start doing your work. If you find you've already found something you want to use it, a photo you want to use, make sure you remove these before you save your work into the repo so that our repo doesn't grow out of control with too much data. That's just something to remember for later. Okay, but key being, we've got these backgrounds, but that's not what we're going to do. We're going to go full on here. So I'm going to select all and I'm going to hit the delete key and that removed everything. Now, one thing I do recommend you do is as you make big changes in any Inkscape SVG, and even from time to time as you're working in it, clean up the document. Oh, and we need to save this as our new thing. I'm going to call this SystemD ResolveD2. And I'm going to call it 2 because I already made an image like this. And again, I want to show you from scratch. So I'm going to save this as a new document here. And once again, I'm going to clean it up. Notice how a little star appeared up here. It means, ooh, there must be something still to clean up. So I hit save again and one more time, just clean it up and we're good. So what that does is it just sort of pulls out unnecessary bits that are in the SVG, which is actually just XML behind the covers or under the covers. It kind of reorganizes it, cleans it up a bit, scrubs it and makes it as small as possible. So that way your image can save a lot of size that way. Okay, great. So we've done that. We're ready to go. We have a blank template. Now you might be asking, what are these blue lines? This is something really important. These little blue lines give you a guide for where you want to keep your most important parts of your background. Because what will happen is different social sites and different ways that the web might use this image cut off the borders of the image sometimes. So for example, if you use up the entire size of the image and run your text all the way from one side to the other, you might find on some places, like maybe Facebook or Twitter, you're going to be missing those letters. So you'll just get a chunk in the middle and you're going to miss the edges. So these are guides that help you understand, hey, I really want to keep my content, the important content in the middle here. You still want to fill up the whole image, but you don't want to put anything important in those gutters, if that makes sense. All right, so we've got this template. What do we do now? Let's find a background. Now, here's where things get interesting. You might be tempted to just go do a Yahoo or Google or a Flickr search for images and just find something pretty and throw it in. But here's the thing. Not all those images are licensed in a way that we can use them. And the last thing we want to do in Fedora is take somebody's copyrighted work and publish it on the magazine without permission. Neither do we want to go out and have everybody have to ask people for permission. What would be much better is if we get our images only from sources where it is okay to use people's images without asking them permission, as long as we do something like credit them for the image or an image that we are allowed to use in any way that we want without credit anyone. However, we always like to give credit where we can. Now, I find a great place to get images is go to unsplash.com. They have absolutely beautiful pictures, high resolution so we can use them. They have all sorts of subject matter there, which is fantastic when you're looking for something that's inspiring for your article. And everything that appears on unsplash is freely usable. So the people who have donated this artwork or photography have put it under a license where you can use it for anything you want. And to be honest, you actually don't have to give them credit. That is not even required. But we always do in the magazine because we really appreciate the fact that they make that stuff available. So here's the thing. How do we choose a background? What do I choose? Should I use a mountain? Should I use a frog? I mean, what do I want? This is where I start thinking about what would be a neat way to represent what this article is about. And it may not be literal, right? One of the most literal things that happens. And I'm guilty of it myself. I do it all the time. I have an article about containers. So what am I going to do? Well, I'm going to go up here in the search for containers. And what am I going to get? Lots of shipping containers. There they are. Shipping containers galore. I have used these kind of pictures many times for articles about containers and container technology. Boy, is that a tired trope. But it happens every day. So just be aware that, you know, those cliches might come through and maybe you want to think about something a little bit different. What about like Tupperware containers? I don't know if anybody knows what Tupperware is anymore. It was big when I was young. Apparently it's not big anymore. What about Rubbermaid? They make containers. They don't appear on here, though. I wonder if food containers might appear in here somewhere. OK, no. But there are some other cool pictures here that give me some other ideas. And a nice way to do is go for Landscape, which gives you an aspect ratio that is a lot like the aspect ratio of your image here, right? So that helps. Well, let's find something that's more like, I don't know, Resolve, System D, Resolve D. Here's the thing. Resolve. You know, I did, I will admit I did try this. And the thing that came up was very inspiring for like human resolve, determination. Look at this person who's getting ready to go swimming even though there's a shark. OK, that's all fantastic, but it doesn't really tell. I mean, it doesn't really give off the sense of our article, which is about name resolution. My inclination here is that name resolution is going to be pretty hard to find a picture that matches that. So we may have to go for something more abstract. Here's what I ended up doing after trying a few things like this, like names. You know, that didn't come up to anything that I really like. There's, you know, memorial walls and, oh, honey and babe. I'm sure that will go over really well if we put that on the magazine cover. I can't see anything bad happening if we do that. All sorts of good stuff here. But yeah, I had a really hard time finding anything. So what I decided to do was go for something abstract. At first I thought, well, System D Resolve D and name resolution are there about networking, right? At their base, they're about networking. So I did actually look up network and just see what comes up. And you do get some kind of cool photos that come up. Look at this one. That one's kind of abstract, but it is very much like something we just used recently. This one's not bad. There's a few more, right? These are, you know, these can be very abstract. And the thing that you want to look for in photos like this is you're looking for something that is what we call low energy, not high energy. A high energy photo tends to have a lot of busyness in it, right? This is an example of this photo right here, is an example of something very high energy. Meaning there's a lot of color changes in it. There's green, yellow, white. A lot of things are in focus. It's very complex. The photo is very complex when you look at it. It has a lot of shapes and a lot of things going on. That's what we call high energy. And really what we're looking for is something low energy because that means that we could put some text on top of it and nothing will distract from the text. Even this one here, it's a simpler picture, but this is still pretty high energy. Notice how all these circles, they're all in focus and they're very high contrast. And so it's going to be hard to put anything else on top of that and have it draw your eye because you're fighting against all of these other things that are going on. So what might work better, this one's not bad. There's a lot of space in it. There's not a lot of energy going on. This one also, bright does not mean high energy. This is very bright, but you could put dark text on this and it would pop out really well. So that's not bad. There are plenty others here. This is another good one. This also is not too bad. There's a lot of energy because, again, you have these very, you know, there's a lot of contrast happening, but it's not bad. Now I'm going to show you what I did. I decided these were all kind of, I don't know, they felt very generic and on the nose and I thought, you know what, I'm actually going to go for something that's just very abstract and just some colors. I'm just going to see if I can find something that's colorful and pretty. And ultimately, actually what I decided on is I really like this one right here. Not very high energy. It is colorful and bright, but it's also not very high energy. There's not a lot of contrast in it. It moves very gradually between red and blue and purple. So you could put some bright text on this and it should pop out. So I thought, oh, okay, that'll work. I'll do that. So I just downloaded this. I'll download this picture. And notice this little box that pops up. This is one of the things I look for. If I'm not using unsplash, if I'm using free image searches elsewhere, like I think Flickr lets you search for photos and you can search for just photos that are Creative Commons license. By the way, make sure that the only licenses that are okay for us for Creative Commons are Creative Commons Zero, which is basically public domain. It's close enough to public domain. Creative Commons BY or BY attribution, that's okay. And BY SA, which is attribution share alike. Those are the only types of Creative Commons license that are okay. It's not okay for us to use non-commercial and it's not okay for us to use no derivatives because then we are not passing along rights to other Fedora users. So those are the licenses that are okay. And the unsplash site is fine because the unsplash license lets you use things for any purpose whatsoever. So you're fine. So knowing that, I also have a little attribution notice here and typically I'll copy this and I'll make sure to paste it into the article or into the featured image caption. So let's keep this open for a little while just so we can let that stick around here because we're going to use it later. All right. Back to my Inkscape. Now that I've got my beautiful photo, what am I going to do? Am I going to just stick that image in here? And the answer is no. Before we pop that image in here because that image is pretty large. Let me find my terminal. This is the actual downloaded form of the image. It is four megabytes in size and that is too big. We do not need anything that big. So here's what I tend to do. I will run GIMP and I'm going to run this on the one I newly downloaded. Okay. Here's that image. Notice the size of it. It is almost 5,500 by over 3,600. Now, we don't need anything that big. The actual size that we need for a featured image in the magazine is exactly 1,890 by 800. All of our images are that size. What I've done actually over on my system is in my Crop Tool in GIMP I have set my Crop Tool because this is mostly what I use GIMP for nowadays I've set a fixed aspect ratio for my Crop Tool to 1,890 by 800. That's going to come in handy. I'm going to go ahead and crop this thing and notice how when I created my crop notice how it stays at this aspect ratio no matter how much I want to clip out. That's kind of cool. I'm just going to make this as wide as the image because that's what I want to get as much of the image as possible and I'm going to pick what I think is about the right area This doesn't have enough of the red in it and this has too much of the red in it so I'm going to find something in the middle that I like about there. Now GIMP has highlighted what it's going to clip out and then click in the middle. Great, now it's cropped. Before I go anywhere though realize this is still the original size so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to scale the image down to be 1,890. I typed in 1,890 and I hit Tab and the height automatically came in at the right number because the proportions are linked and then I'm just going to say go ahead and scale it. Boom, there it goes much smaller. Now I'm going to overwrite the original image and I usually set the quality down too it doesn't need to be very high 75 is plenty because we're not aiming for precision here we're actually aiming for the image to be fine. So we're going to export it and then I'm done. I'm going to go back here and download it again and that should have downloaded probably one with a 2 at the end. Let me make sure. Yep, there it is. There's that big image. What I do if I have image magic installed which I think most Linux boxes do by default because a lot of things use that toolkit behind the scenes to do stuff. GIMP does in fact you can do this at a command line you can do I could do Modify, Scale 1890 which is going to bring the largest that's going to bring the since we're in a landscape it's going to bring the largest dimension that is the width down to 1890 and take a quality of 75 you can do that let me point it at the correct file and it does it in place. There we go. Yeah, so at this point though, you would still need to crop this to 800. Now I think there are ways to do that in Modify too you can tell it I want you to crop this to 800 height and start at a certain position but you'd have to kind of just do it by feel and hope it came out right which is why I tend to use GIMP and the good thing is notice how in any case all the all the jpegs that I worked on notice how all of these are much smaller instead of being like 4 megs they're all like 140, 150 megabytes or kilobytes excuse me which is perfectly acceptable for a jpeg all right so now that we've got that done we have our background right that was the whole point of all that so what we're going to do is we're going to import that background in hit import and we're going to go grab our this is the jpeg that we first made this is the one that's a little odd sized I can actually show both of these let's start with the first one and we're going to import this now what you want to do is the default selection should be okay you want to use embed neverlink why? because embed actually puts the data for the jpeg into the SVG file now in one sense that means that we've got a lot of jpegs that are sitting in our repo and that does make it large and many people forget to scale in the way that I've shown which is why our repo is so big but if you do remember to scale this is actually the best way to do it because it means that if somebody else picks up the SVG they're not going to be missing a file and not know where to get it from you can leave the dots per inch to come from the file that way inkscape will do the right thing and you can leave the rendering mode in auto should be fine in fact I don't know why I don't do this I've selected this don't ask again I look at this every time I never need to do anything but okay I should probably set that to don't ask again but not today pal not doing it now here's our image fantastic well the problem is we want to get this image down into that little page size one of the things that I do is I turn on enable snapping and I have a few snaps enabled one of them is snap to bounding box corners now this page that you see here acts like a bounding box and so what that means is I can move this thing around and notice how oh I also have other things set on like I have snapping to edges I think is set on snap nodes and I think I have yeah any bounding boxes snapped as well so what that means is as I move this around you're going to see it kind of flick over to these guides because I have that snapping on that's actually a really useful tool because it means I don't have to get I don't have to zoom in to figure out whether I'm at the exact corner I just kind of move close to it and then like a vacuum cleaner just sucks it into the corner now I need to resize it now I want to make sure that the aspect ratio stays the same I don't if I just hit the this this corner arrow and start moving around oh no it's all wrong size and I goofed up my picture it's terrible so I'm going to hit control Z to undo that what I want to do to keep the aspect ratio the same is hold down the control key and then resize that way and notice what happens when I get close here to the bounding box now yes there were some craziness there's some craziness that happens but be persistent and eventually there you go boom now you're snapped into the bounding box awesome now my picture takes up the exact space that I want I'm going to hit again I'm going to hit that 4 key and the 4 just zooms the page out to be the maximum possible size on our screen fits it to the window now we're in a good place where we can actually start doing things with it okay so here we start thinking about what do we want to have in our text and this is where it's important to have like a good title for your magazine article and use what I tend to do is I tend to use the magazine article title and to do that also as an editor I tend to make sure the title is something good right like that it's not going to be too not going to be too esoteric if people can't tell from the title what it is that it's a what it is the articles about and they've never heard of it before then it's probably not a great title so we tend to change titles to be things like um you know draw pictures with inkscape if you just said introduction to inkscape how would anybody know what that is if they don't know what it is already so we'd say learn how to draw with inkscape or learn how to manage your network with network manager or whatever the case might be so I'm going to pop over here to the magazine and take a look at behind the scenes at the article that we're going to use and I want to check with the title of that article is so I'm going to go to our posts and find this article and there it is there's the article system D resolve D introduction to split DNS and that's not a terrible title um whenever you start talking about system inwards it gets a little bit harder to do this right this article is more of a primer about what split DNS is and how it works it is explaining how system D resolve D works to provide those functions so given that we're not actually asking the reader to do anything we're not asking them to level up somehow or learn to do something we're really just teaching them what this is so I'm okay with this title system D resolve D introduction to split DNS that's what I'm going to use alright next thing we need to figure out is we need to add some text here and so I'm going to just use that title so I'm going to open up my my text and font features here by the way I'm going to hit for again and that way it resizes that page over the left here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to figure out what kind of font do I want here I've got a lot of fonts installed here all these are I think these are all open and available through the like the Google font foundry and other font foundries we have several that we use that are recommended let me go back over here to our featured image documentation we've got information here about our template and we also talk about fonts here are fonts that we recommend using you're not technically restricted to these as long as the font is open you may not use fonts that are copyrighted that you downloaded from some random wear site or something like that use fonts that everybody can get to freely and so typically to find those fonts we want people to go to something like Google font foundry or somewhere else that offers truly openly licensed fonts and they're usually under a license like the SIL license so these are the ones we recommend I actually think for this one something kind of open it is a the article is a little bit technical but I also don't want to scare anybody off by having big like chunky letters so I'm going to use something a little more open and for me I think this Montserrat that came up here actually I kind of like this then I want to decide like well what kind of heaviness do I want there let's start with a normal heaviness maybe and I'm going to set that as the default and I'm going to come over here into my picture I'm going to hit the T key which turns on the text tool and I'm just going to click in the picture and I'm just going to type system D resolve D and then hit escape okay now I have an object here it's just a text object the first thing I notice of course right off the bat is this is in black and it looks terrible on the top of this picture it's too dark and I really want it to pop out so I changed the color to white notice how when I did that there's an outline on the letters and that may be good in some cases I don't particularly like it so I'm going to hit shift and then click this color to that's the basically remove so it removes the stroke by holding down the shift key I'm activating a color on the stroke as opposed to the fill so if I were to click red the fill of the font will turn red and if I wanted a blue outline I would hold down shift and click blue and now there's a blue outline so that's how you can control the two things separately I want the font to be white but I'm going to hold shift down on this X and that will get rid of the stroke yay that's what I wanted all right cool now we've got this nice font or this nice little text object that we can use now I still need to include the rest of the text and what was that introduction to split DNS right so I'm just clicking here I'll just hit T let me move that down here and say introduction to split DNS all right again black I don't like that I hit the escape key a bunch of times and I'm going to click on it so I can alter it again I don't mind this being white again and then take off the outline and okay let's call this okay for now there's some things I don't like about this but let's just call let's say that these these bits of text are okay here's where you have to start using a little bit of a design I now there's some tools to help us with this first off we probably want this to be somewhat centered what I like to do is kind of get the things close to where I think they might look nice and once they're there I can kind of get an idea hey does that work artistically okay that's not bad I could live with that here's what I would do I like to make sure things are centered against each other and that's very easy to do I'll click one I'm going to hold down the shift I'm going to click the second one and then I'm going to go here to the where's my alignment tool it's somewhere around here I can never find it I always hit control shift a that's how I do this and that gives me the aligned and distribute and so what I'm going to do is turn off grouping so it's going to treat these as two different things and what I'm going to say is relative to the last thing selected center these what I've done now is now these two things are centered against each other I'm going to group them and hit control G and now they're in a group and I'm going to say now relative to the page put these in the center now they're centered against the page horizontally and also center them vertically and I don't look too bad it's not too bad here's some problems though if I look closely at this what I see is over here like around the R the T the D the N the S here and a couple other places here and there the text is it's a little harder to make out against the background but you can't get any brighter than white so I mean what am I going to do I mean I could make this a really terrible color like oh I'll click in this and make this yellow that didn't get any better in fact I think it's worse I mean it looks terrible it doesn't make any sense these things are kind of shading towards white and white is not a terrible color here but what we need is some contrast here's an easy way to make things look spiffy I use this all the time first well first thing I'm going to do I'm going to hold the control key I'm going to make this a little bit smaller because I think just overall this whole thing is just a little too big there we go but still I've got the same problem the INT over here in the DNS they're kind of like a little harder to see it's harder on the eyes so I'm going to click on the object and I'm going to add a filter to it and it's a drop shadow and what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a drop shadow by default the drop shadow is black you can change the color but I'm not going to it's it's the exact right place for me and I usually like to do a blur radius of somewhere between 3 and 4 and I'm going to use no offset meaning it's going to appear directly behind the object it's not going to appear off to an angle or off to the side at all and I'm going to apply that and notice what happens there's like a little bit of shading around these letters now and so now even over here where they were a little harder to see now they pop out that shadow really helps right I'll take that outline out so you can really see how well it makes the image pop out now and even if I scale it down which I will do sometimes the text still seems to pop out a little bit even at that small size that out that shadow outline comes out it really does it really helps okay neat this is actually like this isn't very stylish there's not much to it I wasn't trying to get too fancy but this is this is a passable image but let's say I wanted to do something even better I've already got that notice I've already got this shadow applied but that doesn't have to stop me from doing anything like I might like to go to this text I'm going to text in font and I'm going to make this instead of a light or normal I'll make this like semi bold apply that look at that and then I also know for fact that this article there may be a follow up article so what if we what if we made this so that it was like something to think about like we might have a second or a third one of these and maybe this is just one of several where we might be able to reuse the same background the same image it's a lot of colon here now what did I do I just you know I went and edited this but at the same time did you notice what else happened like as I edited it it's no longer centered so I'm going to once again go back here go to a line distribute relative to the last object which was the bottom piece let's say re-center and then I'm going to treat the whole thing as a group or I could keep clicking out here until I can select the whole group and then just make sure that's centered and that remains centered so that's nice okay so that was just a way to tune it up a little bit and notice how it draws the eye a little bit more to the system resolve system D resolve D that's actually kind of cool because right now this is a very hot controversial topic in Fedora 33 so when people see that they're probably going to be likely oh I want to click on that check it out one other thing I might like to do and there's no reason you can't get creative with this stuff too right like I'm going to I clicked in that group and I'm going to click in it again so that I can alter the elements of the group and I'm going to take this maybe I'd like here's something I think might be cool is if I kind of move this off to the side like this and maybe like here's something to do hold down control and I'm going to hold down control again to make sure that I don't you know goof up the font making you know do something like that right so keep it in the same aspect ratio with that control key and then I'm going to get this one under it and I'm going to see if I like made this smaller that look at that so now I got a little bit I didn't have to figure out the typeface or anything I just like you know get it to the point where this thing is about the same width as this thing and that looks pretty pretty spiffy I think right and if they're too close I can move it down a little bit right but check it out so now that's a pretty that's a pretty good little piece of text now of course I've moved it around again now so I need to go back to my align and against the page I want to recenter it to there we go that's not bad so we spent a long time talking about this but you can tell that like if you know once you do this a few times like you could whip something like this up in like five minutes flat ten minutes like I've done these during meetings sometimes where you know when the meeting goes past me I'm like okay I don't have to worry about this this part of me great I can knock this out in like five minutes pow okay once that's done again we're going to clean up the document clean it up save it clean it up again just in case yep we're good no star so we save it and quit pow okay awesome so now we have this beautiful graphic that we created now when you're going to upload this to the magazine to use it as a featured image this is pretty much the last step here you have to turn it into a jpeg now there are lots of ways to do that but we've already provided this cool make file here now if you're not into code and you don't know what any of this stuff means do not worry about it you do not have to worry about it you can do this you just type make help and you'll find out what you need to do in order to make an svg or a png you just need to type the file name so I know what my file name is right it's that uh systemd resolved2.svg so if I type make systemd resolved2.jpeg all the things will be done for me and at the end I have a beautiful jpeg here that jpeg is what you want to upload to the magazine as your featured image okay how do we do that well let's hop over to our post and we're going to go down to featured image on the side and all this presupposes that you have the right privileges to do this as an editor or as an image maker if you don't just consult the kind folks in the magazine to help uh channels whether that's IRC or on our discourse board and just chime up there and say hey I need help because I'm trying to do this and I don't have access we can help you with that what you do is set your featured image upload your file go find my file what do you think actually here's what we'll do I'm going to go to that images director remember I had another one of these that I already did earlier oh it's because I didn't make the jpeg for it let me I'm going to do this because I made this one I made one earlier this week let's look at both of them against each other that's the one I did earlier which do you like better this one or this one A or B I like B let's go for B that's the one we just did let's keep it it's beauty miss great it's in there now the last thing we do for attribution is we come over here remember I kept this window open with our original and a copy this bit of text here and I'm simply going to paste it into the caption and say set featured image once you do that you have to save the article so that it gets the data then hit preview and notice how we get this nice beautiful little attribution here and there's our image and this is what people will see when they visit the article now when you're done don't forget that you want to you know commit your changes here what's my my git thing that I've done here oh well I have a couple images and so what I'm actually going to do I'm going to cheat here we're going to move the one I just did and I'm going to copy that over I'm going to replace the one I did earlier there we go so now we should have just one of those right oh yeah the jpegs are still here and that's fine we have things set up in the git repo so that even if you've made jpegs there's a bunch of jpegs cluttering it up they'll never get committed in so you don't have to worry about it we've taken care of that and so now just check my status again and it's just that one file so I'm going to do a git add I'm going to commit it and say systemd resolved intro to split DNS and I happen to have I happen to have access so I can push this now if you don't have access though what you could do is you could push this to your own repo and then send us a pull request we do ask that if you make images please do send us a pull request with the source because that way you know we're doing the right thing like we're making the source available for everybody type in my obscenely long key passphrase there and boom now our if I go to our our repo you will see in the commits there it is there's my commit it's in there from a few seconds ago there's our image and so now it is there for all to make use of if they would like yeah oh here's a couple things some important guidelines I I think we added these in recently which is when you're making these like try not to use logos from fedora or other projects well we definitely don't want to use the fedora logo with another logo because that usually takes very special permission from the logo owner and we don't like to use our own logo that much either just because like overusing it when we're talking about general topics like fedora didn't invent system d resolve d it was invented by the system d upstream so we don't want to pretend that we own it or that we had you know more to do with it than we did we tend to keep the fedora logo only for use in very specific cases like if the project is trying to tell you something about the project and even then we only use it sparingly so here are some examples of our fonts you know this is Montserrat here this is open sands and this one here is Oswald these these three these are all kind of examples of just very matter of fact they're simple there's not a lot to them they don't have much of a mood but they feel fairly welcoming I would say you know this Montserrat I think feels very friendly and maybe a little sumptuous whereas the open sands and the Oswald are maybe a little more down to earth like they're a little more matter of fact open sands in fact I think google used to use that for a lot of things until they came up with a new font family for their own product use but it still is a perfectly good font to use for just a very average run of the mill kind of headline so if you're not sure what to use those are all very good fonts to use when you don't know what else to do Bungie here is an interesting font and it's very highly stylized this one I think comes off best when you're talking about something that's very that is very technical in nature or something that should give off like that kind of high-tech you know next generation sort of feel I like using these the slab whether it's Josephine slab or the Zilla slab I think these are neat for when you are doing something that you're trying to show some people something that maybe is a little design oriented or something that is fun and friend fun but friendly grand hotel here I think is one of the this is one of the like most cutesy fonts that we use and a lot of times we use that when we are trying to like have a like more of a human element in things like maybe a call to action like hey would you like to join the magazine like we might use something like that right and what's our other one here so that is Roboto slab or Roboto slab so I would say you probably would use that in similar similar cases for these other slab fonts but you know these are not hard and fast rules and there are other fonts out there like I know there's one called Molot that we've used before I don't know if you can see this here but this Molot font very like it's very heavy and very like this seems very nonhumanist like it's more like if you're going to talk about technology and go very deeply into it that might be a good font for something like that these are all my opinions I don't know if designers would share them I'm going by what I kind of how I interpret these fonts and how I've seen other like better and experienced designers use them that's sort of the things that I've got out of them we've got a few others too like ISFCA this is cute for if you want to like have something that's terminal like it looks very much like a terminal font that can be useful one thing we don't use we try and avoid interstate even though this is red hat use this font for a while before the red hot for the red hat fonts came along but we try and avoid this because we don't want to get confused with you know Fedora is not the same as a red hat it is not the same as a red hat product so we try and avoid that also I don't use the red hat for the same reason I don't use the red hat fonts themselves for the Fedora magazine and I recommend other people stay away from them oh one other cool one it's out there silk screen this is kind of cool it's just a neat it's just a neat little font if you have to do something that's small but needs to be sort of techy and maybe this is a small font that you use in addition to another font for a larger title that's kind of cute well I hope that this was helpful and not too long I'm Paul Frieds and again I work a little bit with the Fedora magazine from time to time and Ben say howdy and bye I guess bye everybody thanks for watching this tutorial I'm Ben Cotton the Fedora Program Manager and Fedora Magazine Editor thank y'all for checking it out and we hope to see you around the magazine helping and until then have a great one isn't that beauty-ous? I think it's beauty-ous beauty-ous