Symbols Project Update - new map markers for shield lovers!
Terraformer_Author
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Hi guys - been doing some more map marker symbol drawings (Letter and Number sets), and I thought that I'de let you see them so far. Images below starting with letter sets.:
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JSM
Keep it up!
Yeah jigsaw, this is only a smidgeon of a HUGE symbols set that I am working on for CC3. When it's done - it's getting out there to everybody who uses CC3 ("somehow", lol).
Yeah BOHICA. These will NOT be color selectable - but I am probably going to make my arrow pointer sets and several other map markers varicolor. I recently exchanged email addies with Shessar and I will hopefully work something out to where Shessar will be helping out on scaling and / or varicoloring a few of these when I draw this stuff out. Not all of them will be varicolor - but the idea is to make a few of them varicolor where it might be needed for different map color schemes and situations and such.
The symbol drawings are done on 8.5 inch by 11.0 inch standard letter sized extra bright acid free multipurpose paper in gel based black ink. I then scan them into my puter as Windows Bitmaps using a setting of 300 DPI, with reflective non-color biased scanning - using my Epson CX6000 scanner / printer. I open them in GIMP, switch them to greyscale image mode - crank up the contrast, switch image mode back to RGB, crop it, and export it into a folder as a .PNG image. I then move it into MS Paint for cleanup and colorizing.
The main issue is that these images range from 200 to 3000+ in width - depending on the image - and scaling them will be a headache, especially when you consider the transparency issue - and keeping the image edges clean with no pale outlines showing up. Luckily Remy Monsen was kind enough to provide me with a few pointers on scaling them cleanly, and he also gives me some sage advice on this from time to time when I need it - so it should go well.
That also worries me a bit. You keep adding symbols.
Is this is going to be one of those project that won't get finished in time.
Like "the wheel of time" :-)
JSM
JSM
True - so true, lol.