STOP and POST - Sept 04

[dduran]

Bass Logo

[Simon Beck]

Bass logo.

[Ron Duke]

Just started this 1939 Buick convertible Friday evening...
ron

[OklaEd]

GREAT POSTS ... Where are all you NEW members?

Gopher,
Someone broke your window Must have been one of Risto's mayo jars ... (reference to another offtopic post).

Risto,
I'm always amazed how you can take simple shapes and make them LOOK like something ... nice nude.

Albacore,
Congrats on the new job ... guess you'll be posting more often now

Carol,
Grandbabies ... aren't they great ... just spoil them and give them back ... cute kid!

Penny,
Your brushes look like yarn ... nice effect.

Simon,
Mr. Simple strikes again ... nice work.

dduran,
I like the style ... the blends and feathering gives an ACTION look to your work. I'd like to see more.

[John Rayner]

Haven't had much drawing time. Been playing with lots of bit maps/photos... So here is a quickie bitmap played with in xara x1

[Meia]

working on it...

[Egg Bramhill]

Okay Ken
Here's mine. It's for a web site I'm working on and the image is based on a very well known British WW1 recruiting poster of Lord Kitchener. It's for a flash site so unfortunately featherings out of the question.

Must say I love these threads, just seeing the diversity of Xarian art.

Egg

[John Rayner]

Hi Egg,

Looks good so far. Too much of one color to look great tho. Here is an idea. Take original recruiting art, drop colors to 16, do a trace, drop each color to a separate layer, key layers drop into flash...

Is it worth a try? Here is a quick test with a gif output from flash. 20 minutes...

[Egg Bramhill]

Cheers John
However the trace method, whilst acceptable, creates vector images that are often twice the size of the original bitmap, which of course defeats the object of creating a vector in the first place. I wanted to create a vector fot 2 reasons. 1: To reduce the file size over a bitmap version 2: To animate the image in Flash. Trying to grab parts of a traced image which you desire to animate becomes very hit & miss etc, so I prefer just to draw it in the first place.
Egg

[John Rayner]

Hi Egg,

I would agree on a full color trace. Reduce the number of colors to a minimum then do a trace. The above example was a 29K jpg and a 12k animated gif. The gif is even bigger than the jpg (height X width).