Mondays don't always suck

[anysia]

aikidomayland is at work, and Alan is at TAFE.

Went through a lot of mail, magazines, periodicals, and other sundries and throwing a lot away. I will once again tell aikidomayland "If you can tell me what I threw away, I will admit we needed it."

Been doing some interesting, and rather involuted graphics work. Make an image, whether photograph or drawing, crop it down to what I want. Convert it to bitmap. Do some manipulation of it to make it a stark B&W image, and save. Then import it into a glyph maker, save it. Then import that into a font library that I created.

The reason for this is that unlike images, no matter how clear they are, once they are blown up and expanded, they lose clarity. Making an image into a font, you can print it to 600pts, 60 times its normal size, and it stays sharp and clear.

Makes for good vector art, and designs for clothing.

Comments

[halspacejock.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the bitmap - to - vector tracing app in the CorelDraw suite? It does a pretty good job, and in full-colour too.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

CorelDraw Suite? don't have that one, but I do other programs, that with a little work, gets the same result.

[halspacejock.livejournal.com]

If you email me a bitmap I'll turn it into a vector and send it back - just to see how it works. (It creates CMX files but there are export options.)

I've used Corel Draw since V2 in 1990 or so. I'm currently on V12. It's a vector page layout prog - ads, newsletters, that kind of thing.

There's an open source app called Scribus which is now (I believe) available for Windows as well as Linux.