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Unread 19-11-2007, 16:01
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Re: Graphics?

thanks ill give it a shot
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Re: Graphics?

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thanks ill give it a shot
It does have features like adding tables without typing it like Dreamweaver, but I tend not to use them because occasionally they're wrong and go under the radar.
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... and vim (universal, usable in the command line, plethora of features... not too user friendly though).
Vim rocks, once you learn how to use it. I find it to be incredibly powerful and efficient. I use it for everything from messing around with a little bit of HTML to writing C code for the robot to composing English papers (using latex to make it look pretty).

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Hey, I was just wondering what other teams use to create their graphics and websites. Cyber Blue has a new logo, and our website was awesome this year. However, next year, the PR team (which I'm on) and website team are combining into one Communications team, and I just wanted a little info from you guys who know lots about this stuff. I have Macromedia at my house, and I'm pretty familiar with Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

Back to my point, what programs does your team use?
Images: GIMP (Gnu Image Management Program), comes with Linux, works on Mac and Windows, free off of Sourceforge.net

Webcode: UltraEdit-32 Professional Text/Hex Editor, just Google it. 30-day free trial, there are web tutorials all over the place on how to crack the expiration on older versions.

More Webcode: EditPad Pro/ EditPad Lite (the U3 flash drive version), basically Notepad on crack. Very helpful for taking notes; tab-separated file windows, undockable, has a bunch of nifty and useful scripts for text editing, and the coolest thing of all: A little green earth-shaped icon that opens the current text file as HTML or javascript in your default browser. Very helpful.
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Re: Graphics?

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Like Zyik, most of my graphics work is done in Inkscape. For raster editing, paint.net is my choice, simply because I'm dumb and its simple user interface appeals to me.

In any case, it's not the software, it's the artist. Pick a software family you feel comfortable with, and expand on that.
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Vim rocks, once you learn how to use it. I find it to be incredibly powerful and efficient. I use it for everything from messing around with a little bit of HTML to writing C code for the robot to composing English papers (using latex to make it look pretty).

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OK, this just amused me. There's somebody else in FIRST who knows how to use vim and LaTeX? Although, I've been doing some papers that needed extensive figures and graphics in LyX. Microsoft Word output just looks bad. Look at those f-i collisions!
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Images: GIMP (Gnu Image Management Program), comes with Linux, works on Mac and Windows, free off of Sourceforge.net

Webcode: UltraEdit-32 Professional Text/Hex Editor

it's good to see someone using UE pro! i love Ultra Edit, and the gimp, but (cheapo alert) don't have the money to buy photoshop or illustrator to edit vector graphics. I use inkscape for most Vectors, but some of my team's sponsors give them to us in .eps, and i don't know any free programs that open .eps files..

any ideas?

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Re: Graphics?

I use Illustrator for 397's new graphics. Interactive-wise I would only use Flash if I needed a quick little application. From a programmers view Flash is actually nice, we don't need to worry about writing the code to make the UI and a lot of the nasty UI stuff is taken care of. I use it a lot for testing algorithms. I would never use it as a navigational portion of the site because some people don't allow Flash files to open.

On the topic of Photoshop, I use it on my photos. Mostly touching up the photos and adjusting white balance. For photographs you won't find much better things (at least not in the Adobe family) but it lacks in the proper drawing tools to be good at logo creation.

Obviously they are expensive, the alternatives of GIMP and Inkscape seem quite useable to me. I don't use them because I learned Photoshop and Illustrator in school.

I don't do too much web development for robotics but I use Dreamweaver just for highlighting and code completion. And also because I had to learn it in school.

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it's good to see someone using UE pro! i love Ultra Edit, and the gimp, but (cheapo alert) don't have the money to buy photoshop or illustrator to edit vector graphics. I use inkscape for most Vectors, but some of my team's sponsors give them to us in .eps, and i don't know any free programs that open .eps files..

any ideas?

thanks
Does it seem like these companies would keep giving you different things in .eps format or is it sort of a one time problem? If it is only going to happen once I would just go download a trial version of Illustrator and convert them to something you can read. Otherwise, on my Macbook Pro I was able to open it one I created using Preview. Otherwise, try Inkscape, I haven't used it but it sounds like it can open .eps files.

If all else fails, talk to the company to get the file in a different format.
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Re: Graphics?

The majority of the graphics on our website were done either in Flash, Photoshop CS3, or some mix of the two. Our site was hand-coded by some former students, and most of our new pages or revamped pages are edited in Notepad2.
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I'm quite happy with this year's side panels, which were done up in Adobe Illustrator. It took me a few hours to do (mostly as I was relearning Illustrator while I worked), but the results are great. (And redoable, if our team undertakes any lending again this season.)
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