Puzzle for Ed

[molucca]

Ed,

From the FX puzzle maker. I haven't figured out how to make the edges yet. It might be in changing the size of the pieces. For this one, I cropped the image after shaping. It appears that the application makes transparent separations between the pieces. I used gel to shape the pieces, but this can be done in the puzzle app. I imagine this is something simple. They never go into enough detail for me. Rich

[molucca]

Very Good ED,

Vector is much better for controlling individual shapes.

Those are Nandina Berries in the front garden. A form of bamboo, I think.

Rich

[molucca]

Another approach. I made a blank image, loaded it into PS and applied the AVB plugin. I wanted to try an application that you can point to an area and get a trace. It took a little while since I haven't used the application in a while. I needed to save as a black & white non compressed TIFF. The application is Express 7.5, and it could read the TIFF from PS. Just an expirment, and I wasn't worried about accuracy. I pointed to each area and got a vector drawing. I saved the group to EPS and open the file in X1. Rich

[OklaEd]

Bug puzzle for Rich ... Cicada http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[molucca]

An X1 puzzle. I made several drawing and fitted them together one at a time. Rich

[molucca]

An AVB puzzle saved to PSD. The line image was on a separate layer. I was able to save to PNG with transparent spaces between the pieces. Then applied Gel effect with texture. Rich

[OklaEd]

Hi Rich,
I know you spent a lot of time aligning the pieces ... but I still have trouble increasing the number of rows. Nice work though!

[OklaEd]

Very cool Rich http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

I gotta try this!

OK ... I found AV Bros. Puzzle Pro ... but no FX puzzle maker. Am I looking in the right place?

[OklaEd]

You can achieve some interesting effects by playing with the bevels and drop shadows.

[Mike S]

part of the problem is to the pics i have average 2-3 meg. and are about 1024x768 or larger. but i am having fun with everyones puzzle .xars that have been posting. they look great b4 i compress them http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif i am tempted to print one out and use some spray adhesive and card board and make a real puzzle. would like to do it in wood but i dont have a clue as how to do that so anyway i dont have the time for that fun stuff anyway. (SIGH)

oh well back to tending to my sick little baby.