Ever see a classy web page logo with shadows, highlighting,
characters/font type like aAbB...etc. but all tailor made into some
special sylistic shapes and for the logo picture some fantastic type of
picture embedded with all of that fancy text but part as background and
part standing out in the foreground. How can one do that sort of thing
on Linux? I tried Canvas but it didn't work and so sent email to the
Canvas web site just to find out that they were aware of the problem and
apparently did not fix it but withdrew Canvas for the Linux platform.
And what about drawing people, trees, snowflakes, and who knows what
else. Is there software out there that actually lets you draw
professional looking pictures and/or combine them with extracts from a
photograph(s)? Anything I've encountered in this respect (which is quite
limited) is a real hassel to draw anything because one cannot get enough
control with the mouse so an attempt to create a simple curve ends up
smattered with unintended zigs and zags. I could do it 100 times better
with a pencil and an eraser. But yet somewhere there are those that are
doing this sort of thing on the computer without a pencil and paper. Is
there some software for Linux that makes drawing sophisticated
professional quality pictures a real possibility?
The only way I know at the present is to draw a picture by hand, fairly
large, and then photograph it and convert it into a jpeg or some other
kind of file. This takes special lenses, a 35MM camera, special
lighting, and hours and hours of artwork.
Look at magazine adds embedded with pictures fading out into the
background and then some large words in sylized form and so on, then
adjacent to that panel another sesational chunk of art work overlaid in
a corner of the page or a section of the page with some special
anouncement that stands out over everything else without creating a
conflict. And so on and so on.
Anyone know what I'm talking about, have any ideas or suggestions???
Are there any HOWTO's on doing computer based art work the sort I have
been explaining???
I'll also tell you why. I need to create slide shows for streaming on
RealServer and the artwork is an important feature. So I'm trying to
figure out if I can do the artwork on the computer or if I have to do
the artwork the old way with pencil and paintbrush, with physical
overlays, etc., and then photograph and convert to jpeg, gif, etc.
Bye-thanks_TED
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