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Title: How do you get such high resolution images for cabinet art?
Post by: Dekieon on February 11, 2013, 08:46:51 pm

I am trying to design my art for my control panel, and at 300dpi my CPO is 10500 x 3500, I can't find any images even close to that size. Gameongrafix.com says not to scale up the image size (which makes sense), so how do you all get such high res images?

If my CPO art is this big and I can't find images for it, there is no way I am going to find images for the sides of the cabinet, which will be about 3 times the CPO size.

Title: Re: How do you get such high resolution images for cabinet art?
Post by: shponglefan on February 11, 2013, 08:50:13 pm

Vector art

Title: Re: How do you get such high resolution images for cabinet art?
Post by: Dekieon on February 12, 2013, 04:11:40 pm

I some some research on vector art since your post. I found a program called Vector Magic, that is supposed to turn bitmap images into vector images.
Anyone have any experience with this program, that can state if it is any good or not?

I also found Inkscape which is free, so  downloaded that, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. So I am not sure if it is very good or not.

Title: Re: How do you get such high resolution images for cabinet art?
Post by: PL1 on February 12, 2013, 04:46:01 pm

 Vector Magic (http://vectormagic.com/home) is easy to use online.

Won't work for a large, complex, high-res color photo, but it does a very good job on more simple patterns.

Here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129492.msg1325308.html#msg1325308)'s one method Qwintin used to make it work with a tricky pic.

+1 on Inkscape.


Scott

Title: Re: How do you get such high resolution images for cabinet art?
Post by: Wade007 on February 15, 2013, 12:24:08 pm

Vector art my man!! Math based graphics that scale perfecty, not resolution based.

Here's a few of my favorite arcade vector graphics sites:
http://vectorlib.free.fr/ (http://vectorlib.free.fr/)
http://arcadeartlibrary.com/arcade_art/categories.php?cat_id=10&sessionid=220d5602bff6c75d40581ec4d6978b8e (http://arcadeartlibrary.com/arcade_art/categories.php?cat_id=10&sessionid=220d5602bff6c75d40581ec4d6978b8e)
http://www.classicgaming.cc/classicS/spaceinvaders/graphics.php (http://www.classicgaming.cc/classicS/spaceinvaders/graphics.php)

Fonts
http://www.fontspace.com/category/arcade (http://www.fontspace.com/category/arcade)
http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/OscarControls/fonts.htm (http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/OscarControls/fonts.htm)


Get Adobe Illustrator free demo and go to town. You may need to watch some YouTube video tutorials first ;)