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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: USSEnterprise on July 21, 2005, 08:57:51 pm
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What is the best computer program to use to make marquees? I want to make one with a Star Trek theme and then send it out to be printed.
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I liked Adobe Illustrator personally. It took me quite a bit of time to get the hang of it but was happy with my marquee in the end. Also Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 isn't that bad.
Looks much better than this!!!!!!!!!!
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I prefer Illustrator and Photoshop in concert.
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I have adobe photoshop. It came bundled with my first Windows 95 computer. No Illustrator at all. Any program you can think of thats either freeware/shareware or has a trial version?
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The GIMP, a freeware powerfull graphics program.
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before recomending any program, you should ask yourself what kind of graph you want on the marquee.
after that you can choose a program that will fit your needs.
my recomendation will be use the one you are used to
but the most important is to have a good planification of what you want, use a high resolution, use CMYK color space instead of RGB.
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Only problem is, the program I'm use to is 9 years old and good for nothing.
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The GIMP, a freeware powerfull graphics program.
I 2nd that.
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i just downlaoded The GIMP, but having problems. The mouse is being sporadic, working one second then useless the next. The same seems to happen when I use Gaim, which also uses GTK. Can anyone help.
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i just downlaoded The GIMP, but having problems. The mouse is being sporadic, working one second then useless the next. The same seems to happen when I use Gaim, which also uses GTK. Can anyone help.
System specs?
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1.6GHz P4
384 PC133 RAM
40GB HDD
nVidia Geforce 5500 w/ 128 MB DDR VRAM
Windows XP Home
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Try reinstaling the GTK as well as Gimp. If you still are having issues, they have a troubleshooting forum on their site.
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Only problem is, the program I'm use to is 9 years old and good for nothing.
My guess: you're using Deluxe Paint ? ;D I still use it occasionally for editing sprites. Nothing can beat the pixel power of Deluxe Paint.
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not even. Adobe Photoshop 2.0
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not even. Adobe Photoshop 2.0
Most graphic intensive programs really need several things to really work.
Your PC specs are low and these are causing your problems.
Windows XP home really needs to be installed from scratch onto a HD with NTFS. Simply upgrading Win95/98 or whatever to XP Home just wont cut it and will ultimately become unstable causing you grief.
Before you format yoru drive ensure you have all your drivers burnt to a CDR with the latest modem, audio and graphics drivers. Then reformat the drive from scratch even removing the drives partition and recreating one again with your full 40Gb HD.
Making sure when you reinstall Windows XP Home you select NTFS.
THis should make your PC much more stabel and better at dealing with large graphic, video and auido files as it isnt limited by the 4Gb limitations FAT16/FAT32 bring.
Next you will have to find Photoshop 7.0 or higher to install. The latest being Photoshop CS 2 (version 9 if anyones counting).
I would also start looking for a bigger hardrive and also bring your RAM up to 512Mb at least. Even if that means throwing away your old RAM and installing 2 x 256Mb.
Remember Photoshop will use yoru hard drive as a way of dealing with huge graphic files by using the scratch disks. If you have a lot of stuff on your HD this will slow down your PC whilst using PS.
Let me know.....
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I have my PC set up with NTFS, The computer came with XP, set up on a FAT system. I popped in the restore disk, played around with the Symantec Ghost controls, and got it to put an NTFS system on my drive. And I have at least 10 GB free HDD Space, and 2 of those GB's devoted to page file. And I have an extra DIMM slot, so I wouldn't need to throw anything away. And for Adobe Photoshop 2.0, which was made for Windows 95, how does my computer have low specs. When this software came out, PC's were just breaking the 200MHz range. I would think my computer's specs would be more than capable of handling that version of Photoshop
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Some Windows 95 programs do not work on XP Home/Pro.
You will need to upgrade to at least version 7.0 of Photoshop to get it to work. Photoshop 2.0 is just far too unstable and way too old for XP home.
Even if you try using the compatibility select feature of XP, I bet it still wont work properly. The rule is, if an old program doesnt work on XP straight away, the chances are that it still wont work using the compatibility feature either.
Time for a PS upgrade me thinks.
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Well thats my problem, as stated above. Unless I can find it on Bittorrent or something, I cant afford a new version of Photoshop. It works properly, its just that its features are very limited.
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And when it comes to GIMP, The problem is with GTK. I tried to use GAIM, which also uses GTK, and I have the same problem
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ok, I just "obtained" a copy of Photoshop 7.0
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Star Trek themed marquee in in the works
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After a few hours of work in Photoshop 7, I have a rough edition of my marquee.
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This could be because I am a small Star Trek fan but I think you should add something like "TO BOLDLEY GO WERE NO ARCADE HAD GONE BEFORE!" :) Other than that I don't know if you are stuck on that title or if it is a work in progress but it needs something. Still not bad for just a few hours work. Keep us posted
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I honestly didn't think of that. The title was the reason I was calling it a rough draft. I even have those exact words right under my avatar.
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I notice a lot of mention of GIMP (which is primarily raster) as an alternative to Photoshop.
For the folks out there who desire vector without wanting to pay an arm and a leg for Illustrator, try Inkscape (open source, and free from cost):
http://www.inkscape.org/
Native ports for Windows, Linux and Mac. It has many professional-quality features found in other far more expensive packages. Highly recommended.
Check out the screenshots and gallery pages on the website to see what others have accomplished with this great package.
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I notice a lot of mention of GIMP (which is primarily raster) as an alternative to Photoshop.
For the folks out there who desire vector without wanting to pay an arm and a leg for Illustrator, try Inkscape (open source, and free from cost):
http://www.inkscape.org/
Native ports for Windows, Linux and Mac. It has many professional-quality features found in other far more expensive packages. Highly recommended.
Check out the screenshots and gallery pages on the website to see what others have accomplished with this great package.
Would be nice if it opened Adobe Illustrator files....
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illustrator can open svg files.
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Would be nice if it opened Adobe Illustrator files....
It can open .ai files perfectly on my machine (under Linux). That's how I open all my client .ai files, as well as the vector art from these forums.
I believe .ai support for the Windows version is "coming soon (tm)".
[EDIT] Actually, can someone test the new 0.42 version for Windows and see if .ai support is in yet? [/EDIT]
[EDIT2] Found a Windows box to test it on. Still no .ai support for Win32 inkscape. I wonder if there's some sort of license issue with this? That would be the only reason something already implemented in on source tree would take so long to make it to another port. [/EDIT2]