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New Silhouettes
RodBearden:
I'm not sure they work for me either, Tarbat - I'm just playing! There are some photos that I'm pleased with - check out the Hawk!
Of course, you can mix them up and keep most of the silhouettes, just having a select few photos as attention-getters.
And you're right, Allocator, I just can't resist playing with the graphics, but it is pretty harmless fun!
I'm off on my hols tomorrow, and I'll view them with a fresh eye when I get back. If anyone has come up with fresh ideas, or contributed more pictures, that would be great!
I've been concentrating so much on RB beta testing in the last few weeks that logos (and silhouettes) have taken a bit of a back seat - but I'll settle down to them (if more need doing) in a week or so.
Rod
IAN K:
Hi to all
As the creator of the silhouettes I agree that a lot of them do look similar but the originals were 85 x 20 in size and they don't seem to have the same impact when reduced to 68 x16
Ian
tarbat:
I still like the silhouettes!! However I have been playing around with FastStone to maybe sharpen the images up slighty. Ian, if you don't mind me asking, how did you go about creating the 85x20 silhouettes in the first place?
RodBearden:
Hi Ian
Many congratulations on the silhouettes you did for RB - they are real works of art - and they do look very accurate. It's not your fault that all airliners look much the same these days, especially when they get crammed into a 68x16 pixel space!
As Allocator says, the helicopters and light aircraft do stand out from the crowd. As I said in the first post of the thread, I may well prefer your shilouettes to my pictures - haven't made up my mind yet - but from the responses on the forum, most RB users certainly think they're a great enhancement to the product.
Again, thanks for your work!
Rod
IAN K:
Hi
Thanks for the comments
The 85x20 silhouettes were developed for another product hence the size.
Many of the current airliners I was able to scan from a book and then I add the blue background and reduce in size, but most of the aircraft I have to find a good side on photo from any of the main Airliners websites, I then use the lasso tool in Photoshop to cut the aircraft out I then add the blue background and black out the aircraft leaving the windows which are painted white then crop the photo and reduce to 85x20 and apply a small amount of sharpening, each aircraft takes about 10 mins to do from start to finish.
Ian
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