04-11-2006 09:03 PM

K.Shaw

Re: pic: CRT button?

what program do you use to make the button designs?

04-11-2006 09:05 PM

Michelle Celio

Re: pic: CRT button?

That's a cool button =P

I don't know about them, but I make the button designs for my team and I use a combination of Photoshop, Paintshop and MS Paint.

Mspaint - For the size
Photoshop - gradiants
Paintshop - I know it all to well, and can make cool stuff.

04-11-2006 09:10 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

I make them in photoshop; same as my userbars and avatar. Except that on the avatar I used Image-ready aswell.

04-11-2006 09:17 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

Do you use Paintshop for mac?

04-11-2006 09:18 PM

Tim Arnold

Re: pic: CRT button?

He used Photoshop CS2 according to the EXIF info.
EDIT: Ya beat me...

If possible I would highly suggest creating the logo at a higher resolution. When I originally designed the MARS logo we began with a 60 inch canvas. The logo is now 54 inches which makes a super easy time when trying to put together banners (the only thing better is a vector drawing). Starting big you can always get smaller, but going from something small to something big is a MAJOR pain. Make sure you are working at 300 DPI... had to redo our button because I forgot.

Attached is the nearly final button... some of the fonts are not correct (see if you can spot the other error ). I lost the final button due to a USB drive crash, but we have 2500 buttons made already and about 100 more pages of button logos corner to corner.

Good luck!

04-11-2006 09:20 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

exif info??? I am so confuzzled *Hmmmpfh*


I created it about 2x, so I could shrink it down... but the origional Steelface (the beaver on our button) is only about 3 inches.... We are thinking of making a banner, but The only big Steelface we have is an anti-aliased version that I did with smooth/by hand in photoshop. Do you know any easier ways to "blow" a low-res picture up?

04-11-2006 09:21 PM

Michelle Celio

Re: pic: CRT button?

Jasc Paintshop Pro 9, but I think it's Corel Paintshop Pro 10 or something like that now.

I do belive it only works on Windows

04-11-2006 09:25 PM

Andrew Blair

Re: pic: CRT button?

EXIF is the information package attached to mostly all JPEG images regarding it's creation. I knew it could tell you camera spec's and the like, but didn't know it also included editing software!

04-11-2006 09:28 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

That's what I am confused about...I know what EXIF is, I just didn't think that Photoshop left any info when it saved a file... for that matter, I didn't know that any program did, I thought it was exclusively for digital cameras. I didn't even know that it told specs about the camera itself, I just thought it told shutter speed and aperture and such, Oh well. I guess you learn something new every day.

04-11-2006 09:33 PM

looneylin

Re: pic: CRT button?

pretty nifty. YAY!

04-11-2006 09:36 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

Loonylin, You use photoshop for your buttons, right?

04-11-2006 09:37 PM

Tim Arnold

Re: pic: CRT button?

I am likely just incorrect in my terms... its just what I have always thought the information said in the properties>summary view for a picture was called.

Wikipedia says:
Exif data is embedded within the image file itself. While many recent image manipulation programs recognize Exif data and will maintain it when writing to a modified image, this is not the case for most older programs.

So I am likely wrong, just have a lack of a better term. Attached is a screenshot of what I am talking about.

04-11-2006 09:42 PM

Cody Carey

Re: pic: CRT button?

What photoshop writes is Technically IPTC, and what the digital camera writes is technically EXIF, IPTC is more used to annotate images whereas EXIF is used to tell camera settings at the time that a picture is taken... but they are still the same basic thing, right?
Please correct me if I'm wrong.