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--- Quote ---#2:   limited colors in vector images is generally true, because they aren't bitmaps, of course.  BUT, look at the classic games - pacman, joust, DK, etc and check out their artwork - many of them used stencils.  Take, for example, the DK marquee - easily able to reproduce in vectors if you apply yourself.  You can divide the whole thing into solid shapes of the consistent colors.  I don't like gradients - to me they look pretty cheesy and done to death.
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Yes I agree for those of us that want classical style cabs the graphics will be in most cases simple with only a few colors. And most people should be able to create ok results with not  to much of an effort. I also used Illustrator for the vector graphics in my fe and the cp overlay on my cab. But any drawing program should do. For beginners it may be better to use something more simple then illustrator. For example a lot of people have a copy of flash lying around...it can be easily used for not to complex marquees and cp etc.

peter

Carsten Carlos:

--- Quote ---Yes I agree for those of us that want classical style cabs the graphics will be in most cases simple with only a few colors.
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Thought that, too - but unfortunately the Centipede marquee artwork I want seems to be more complicated then it did on first sight. Colors are not the problem, but there is still many stencilwork in it.

neuromancer:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 21, 2003, 04:26:39 pm ---#3 I skirted on the subject above, but I must say it again.  Vector tracing is HARD.... It's actually just as
 

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Hard? "Tedious as hell" I'll go for. Hard? All you do is click the control points and drag the handles until the curves match. I did it with an insanely complicated graphic on a 486 in order to learn Corel Draw years ago. It took me days to get it right, but there was nothing hard about it.

Adobe Illustrator is also a much better program for doing any sort of layout of raster graphics, because you can mix and match resolutions, and rescale graphics without any resampling. And if you have a high res image on one part of of your layout, you don't have to create a huge file like you would in Photoshop.

Bob

SirPoonga:
*chanting* I see someone with artistic ability creating a classic arcade figure vector graphic website

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