Hello It's jason3283. My wife made me change my user name to 2-cents (As in nobody wants your).
Anyway Here is a wine glass.
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Hello It's jason3283. My wife made me change my user name to 2-cents (As in nobody wants your).
Anyway Here is a wine glass.
hey man what its is this all about i what is this talkgraphics pls can you help me understand
Love your wine glass as well as your wife's sense of humour..or possible logic. Now you know why my wife doesn't know about my pen name. 2-cents is a great name but can you give splat awards?.........NooooooooooooQuote:
Originally Posted by 2-Cents
Got your xara file and will do the best to destroy it. Very similar in many ways to egg's tutorial back in 2002. Is this the basis or is it just that everybody else in the world can create except for me
(edited) Just broke your glass. Has the top and sides been done using the subtract command or are they just lines that you drew????? Also, my 14 year old daughter was looking at your picture as I was taking it apart and she complained that you served wine in dirty glasses. It's true, I can now see at least 4 fingerprints on your glass, 1 up in the window part of the glass and 3 just above the wine.......Shame on you.....I hope your not a bar tender by profession. I really hate to do this cause it is a great drawing, but I have to, have to I say, award you at lease a 1 splat award for serving in dirty glasses
Beautiful job on the wine glass - it looks so real.
Great looking glass of wine. Welcome, and I hope that you share your 2 cents worth with us more.
Say!.... whats the Big Idea.
Looks like someone dropped a splash of solder on the table, or Seagull made his presence known......
Heh, heh.....I'll never tell
Wow! Great work! Very realistic wine glass!
- AF
Say, what's this......everybody is too nice. Am I and my daughter the only ones to see the greasy fingerprints? For shame, for shame. I shall remove them myself, repost it under my name and then I want all the compliments.
p.s. 2-cents I don't about you but I don't want my wife or daughter joining the forum but if you run across a user name "the smart one in the family" you know it's the wife; "the talented one in the family" it's the daughter and "ha ha I can spell" then it's the dog
hahahahahahaha, ok, that does it, it's time to pair up you and norman to write a book!!!!!!
Stunning, I am jeaulous.
now make it white wine and I am happy ;)
excellent work 2-cents. Love the depth of feild and the smudges to the glass. Has a great real world feel, which is often hard with vectors. Good job.
J
thank you for all the nice things everybody wrote.
Ankhor are you wining?:eek:
Ah thank you nice glass of white wine.(actually looks evenQuote:
Originally Posted by 2-Cents
better in the white version)
Now if you were as witty as me, you would have drawn
an empty glass with just some drops white wine pouring down
slowly.(which would happen for I drink fast)
So in that department I still beat you :p
A picture is worth a thousand words,...... I hoped it would
be dollars ;)
Please try to keep your images down to about 650 pixels or less.
Thanks
Nice glass.
Gary
Popeye is always whinning about something, don't worry about that. Really good job again, really like the way you have done the wine itself. Have taken your glass apart and see how you have done it but am still experimenting to try to duplicate your technique in several places.....actually all places. If your drawing from life, you must be getting a bit drunk by now, at least that's my two cents worth......by the way, I think I really like your wife, seems like a really smart woman that knows whats she's talking about.Quote:
thank you for all the nice things everybody wrote.
Ankhor are you wining?
I think you should send the image to Popeye before posting, I am sure he will be able to help you reduce the pixel size by one method or another, mind you you'll probably be posting two empty glasses by the time you get them back.
Mostly about wine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
Hehehe I just posted an empty one. Nice idear from mister Priester toQuote:
I think you should send the image to Popeye before posting, I am sure he will be able to help you reduce the pixel size by one method or another, mind you you'll probably be posting two empty glasses by the time you get them back.
get a glass out for real study, the thing is, by he time I am up and ready
the glass is empty again. I work fast but not as fast as I drink ;)
And for the pixel thing, I actually have no idear how to calculate it???
The thing I do is, I export it as a picture(from xara Xtreme ofcourse)
then I find the picture and drop it in the xara picture editor, there I can crop
it and export/save it at a smaller size. And I hope I am below the pixel size
given. For I have no clue how to check that.
Some explanation would be appreciated. So what size is acceptable?
and how do I see it?(when I save in the picture editor I get two numbers
height and width, so how does the n650 pixel limit actually work?)
Made my head spin too since I have set my computer up to centimeters. Strange, I was asking the exact same question in the last post, but took it out after thinking for a second or two. When saving to jpg or gif, use the export command under file and a window pops up. Give the drawing, click export and another window pops up with the importans stuff. Click on the tag bitmap size and then I resize just the width, usually to 500 pixels and the hight changes automatically. The attached image which my daughter is drawing for this very forum to embarasse her old man is 795 x 612 pixels but has been resize too 500....the 612 automatically scales to the right size. If this is the right answer and I think it is, you owe me a drink Popeye. Make mine water if you don't mind but try to drain the potatoes out first so I don't choke. Later guy
The simplest way to do this is to work with pixels as your units. I assume that the majority of your work is produced for display either on your monitor directly or within the forums, so pixels would be the most natural medium to work with.
Create your image, then when it comes to exporting it to the forum, simply resize it to 600 pixels ON THE STAGE. (You might have to resize the other dimension to a whole pixel value by turning the "Lock Aspect Ratio" off, and typing in a whole number value without any decimals.)
Then export. This has the advantage that what you see on your screen is the same size as the exported image (Viewed at 100%)
The reason for requesting that images are kept to around 600 pixels is so members using lower resolution monitors don't have to scroll, especially horizontal scrolling. :rolleyes:
Well actually that is exactly how I do it. And with the xara picture editorQuote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
you even see the resize, very handy.(So you get no drinks from me :p )
So basically, what I understand of it from egg`s post below(now above), is
that it is a height thing, for I was lookin at 2-cents latest post and it said
471-567 so shouldn`t that be the correct size for both are below the 600
threshold (threshold an excellent series by the way on TV, okay I am babbling) ? :confused:
No, it's a width thing. A lot of post they have images that are too large and I have to scroll the screen left to right to not only see the image but also to read the text. Not very interesting.
I don't use egg's or gary's pixel technique, have my computer set up to a metric scale which makes sense to me. When drawing something for myself, maybe a plan for a sign or a table, pixels mean absolutly nothing but if the units are set to metric or inches, than I can relate to it. Someday if I can truely understand what a pixel is and how it relates to paper size, metic and imperial measurements than maybe I will change to program to it's original settings but for now I like it the way it is. That's why my technique works really good for me. I have been using it for years and years now for my web site and whenever sending pictures over the email. I find 500 pixels a perfect size for an email picture and for the site I use thumbnails af around 250 for faster downloads which you can click on for a 500 pixell image size for better detail, your choice; all compressed since I remember my roots with a dial up connection
2-Cents,
I like the wine glasses, Xara is great software... I am new to it, but I have been involved in graphics since the late '80.
Back in the 40's; if someone asked you for money when you were broke, you would normally reply "I'm sorry, I don't have a dime to my name". Tell your wife that 2-Cents is as spooky as Jason3283. When you get down to only 2-Cents to your name, now that is spooky...
I created the attached image with Xtreme... I am still attempting to gain a working knowledge of Xara Xtreme... I'm starting to getting the hang of it, but I have a long ways to go to be able to use it, as you do. :-)
George...