Wine_Glass

**-=Drifter=-** · 02 June 2006, 08:05 PM

hahahahahahaha, ok, that does it, it's time to pair up you and norman to write a book!!!!!!

**ankhor** · 03 June 2006, 01:46 PM

Stunning, I am jeaulous.
now make it white wine and I am happy

**Thatch** · 03 June 2006, 03:04 PM

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

**2-Cents** · 03 June 2006, 06:33 PM

thank you for all the nice things everybody wrote.
Ankhor are you wining?

**ankhor** · 03 June 2006, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by 2-Cents

thank you for all the nice things everybody wrote.
Ankhor are you wining?

Ah thank you nice glass of white wine.(actually looks even
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

A picture is worth a thousand words,...... I hoped it would
be dollars

**gwpriester** · 03 June 2006, 08:05 PM

Please try to keep your images down to about 650 pixels or less.

Thanks

Nice glass.

Gary

**Seagull** · 04 June 2006, 12:27 AM

thank you for all the nice things everybody wrote.
Ankhor are you wining?

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.

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.

**ankhor** · 04 June 2006, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by Seagull

Popeye is always whinning about something,

Mostly about wine.

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.

Hehehe I just posted an empty one. Nice idear from mister Priester to
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?)

**Seagull** · 04 June 2006, 02:14 AM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 04 June 2006, 02:37 AM

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.