NTP Spring 2023 background images

[rebron]

Description

Swap out all of our current wallpapers on the new tab with a fresh set of images.

Design (to add):

Assets:

Miscellaneous Information:

Related/prior issues:
#6904
#18568

[aguscruiz]

GDoc with authors:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZkdVYylhJCGonWaK5tLbNe0HBqbNbmoo20PPAAexcA/edit

[aguscruiz]

@petemill @rebron we have the images ready!

Here you go
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aWhOBJoT5zAAsWzRM7Qg98yStPl98v8o?usp=sharing

And reminder:
GDoc with authors and links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZkdVYylhJCGonWaK5tLbNe0HBqbNbmoo20PPAAexcA/edit

[petemill]

Do we have the original version of these images? Usually we compress them with with https://squoosh.app/ (or similar) to make sure there's no pixelation at high-ish resolution, usually to webp because that's the smallest file size for that quality. I'm happy to do that conversion unless we're completely happy with these? They mostly seem fine, but I'm seeing a bit of pixelation on a 4k 21" display on a few of the images that have the sea, and especially on the sun in the image with the hand. If anything we can at least maintain existing quality and reduce size with .webp - I say that because this is a few more images than we have now. Right now our images total 6.7mb and this new set totals 9.5mb. 50% addition - perhaps not the end of the world, but we have to consider mobile connections (especially android), so we should do all we can without sacrificing quality.

Which image do you want to be the default one bundled with the browser, to be shown before the pack is downloaded? At the moment it's https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/img/newtab/backgrounds/dylan-malval_sea-min.webp

[aguscruiz]

Yeah sure, I have the originals here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1_bG5K_pNcfhlD-g4Bm0zXJjOsYB8mp?usp=sharing

As for the ones that look bad, we can probably take them out, the one with the hand is kinda problematic, so we could remove it if it's gonna look bad.

Let's see after your compression if the size get better, hopefully!

[rebron]

Let's use this one https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1aWhOBJoT5zAAsWzRM7Qg98yStPl98v8o Corwin-Prescott-3_Q10_x1458.jpg to be bundled as the first one shown.

[aguscruiz]

Let's use this one https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1aWhOBJoT5zAAsWzRM7Qg98yStPl98v8o Corwin-Prescott-3_Q10_x1458.jpg to be bundled as the first one shown.

This is the image, renamed it in Drive so that link no longer works:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PKIxD_L4Tr2dD5AmPKKuOzi6a1djJwwb/view?usp=sharing

[rebron]

Closing. Released via component update on June 1st.