The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Level42 on January 23, 2008, 06:27:34 pm
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Hey guys,
I'm an absolute no-no on the topic of working with pictures (well anything above iPhoto) so I would like to make a small request to someone here who is really handy with Photoshop, or any other program that can do this job.
For both my Star Wars Cockpit and Centipede, I would like some new coin-reject button inserts. I scanned one of them from my Centipede cab. The "special" thing about it is that it's for our former currency, the Guilder.
I want to keep both cabs as original as possible and keep using Guilders as my "tokens".
Here's a sample of the scan:
(http://gallery.mac.com/andre.huijts/100042/Atari-20Coin-20Reject-20In0001/web.jpg)
I scanned it at 1200 dpi.
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i saw some of these on ebay im sure NOS too, with the millipede manual maybe, ill try n find em now.
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I guess I forget to ask the question really :D
Could someone fix this up a bit ? Black=black, a bit sharper lines on the letters etc ?
Polaris, NOS Dutch version ? That would be great !
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hmm, not the same, but nonetheless.
look in the pics (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Orig-ATARI-MILLIPEDE-inst-parts-X-Y-MONITOR-manual_W0QQitemZ170186168301QQihZ007QQcategoryZ3945QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
sorry its FF not Fl :(
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Thanks Polaris, but I've got exactly that same sheet of stickers with my Centipede (was in the original bag in the game with the manual :D).
These stickers are meant to go on the coin door. I might put that Atari only logo one on......not sure yet....
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If you still looking for help on this then just send it to me.
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The scanned file I guess ? Or the real thing ;)
Thanks anyway :D
I was thinking that the black actualy shouldn't be too black for the backlighting, but not sure. Will have a look this afternoon.
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If you just want your scan vectored and your having no joy send me the exact measurements and I'll knock it up for you. Shouldnt take long.
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The scanned file I guess ? Or the real thing ;)
Thanks anyway :D
I was thinking that the black actualy shouldn't be too black for the backlighting, but not sure. Will have a look this afternoon.
Well you could send the original too and I'd scan it myself ;D
Once it's cleaned up it will be easy to change the background color. Actually I think you could do that even from your (the) printer. usually you can just increase the brightness in the printer driver and experiment until it looks the way you like.
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Im sure everyone has it but here is the Atari logo vector.
http://neilyboy.mtco.com/pics/Atari.eps
I am a total n00b in illustrator but I could make it pretty decent in photoshop. So worst comes to worst hit me up L42 and ill whip it out for ya.
-Neil
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I guess I forget to ask the question really :D
Could someone fix this up a bit ? Black=black, a bit sharper lines on the letters etc ?
Polaris, NOS Dutch version ? That would be great !
here ya go man,
I cleaned it up by re-creating a vector version for you along with a clean JPG.
I hope this is what you're looking for.
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Hey Ritalin,
Thank you !!!! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
I love this forum, I really really do :)
Excellent work !
Incidently I visited my SW yesterday and noticed it actualy didn't have the inserts with the Atari logo (Unlike my Centipede), so these will be going to look very sweet on it :) !!
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Enjoy, Level42!
You can use the vector EPS version to scale up/down at any side without losing print quality.
Cheers!
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Wanted to show that the work has not been in vain Ritalin:
(http://gallery.mac.com/andre.huijts/100042/DSCF0764/web.jpg)
(http://gallery.mac.com/andre.huijts/100042/DSCF0765/web.jpg)
Left the old original, right a brand new button and printed insert.
Look how good the Fuji looks (now really separated bars !) and the letters on the bottom right are much improved too.
I think I printed the JPG. Did it on a simple HP 930C. Not sure yet how it looks when lit.
I'll try to print the vector file too to see how that looks. Anyway, great that I can now reproduce these and add them to my SW cockpit and Centipede !
Thanks again !
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Mmmm, just printed the eps file from Adobe Illustrator, scaling it to about 12% and to my surprise it looks worse than the JPG that I scaled down with the built-in printing routines of my Mac......
The Fuji gets "melted" together again...
Weird...
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When you scale the drawing in Illustrator you need to check a box for "scale strokes and effects" (or something like that). Otherwise the outlines keep the same pointsize and thus they become oversized compared to rest after scaling down.
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I'll check that out later, thanks Patrick. For now, the Jpg's look just great:
As always very hard to take a good pic in the dark, but here it is. It looks very good indeed in real life. Amazing, since I used plain simple printing paper, nothing special :D
(http://gallery.mac.com/andre.huijts/100042/DSCF0767/web.jpg)
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And a "total" shot...
(http://gallery.mac.com/andre.huijts/100042/DSCF0827/web.jpg)
Again, thanks to Ritalin !! :applaud: :applaud: