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bobtheguy 06-10-2009 11:57 PM

TECH HELP
 
Hello, I need some help with "tech stuff" I currently have 2 questions
1.what is a vector
2. how to do "advanced graphics" such as the ones below
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...azyleaf/21.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...azyleaf/26.gif
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/...un-vectors.jpg
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/...07/florals.gif
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/...ess_family.jpg
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/...nshootsnap.png
also if anyone needs help with something you can post it here.

BlackVenom 06-11-2009 12:09 AM

I know how to do those sorta things, I just recently learn how to do a shine like that in Photoshop a week ago. The only time I ever heard or know vector is in 3D Moddling and Rendering so that might be it otherwise I haven't got a clue.

If you want to learn how to do detail like that shine, here's a link:
http://www.photoshoppoint.com/design...ustrial-panel/
(just make sure you got a fairly recent version of photoshop to do this in, I have CS3 Extended)

[EDIT]

Just to show you, here's something I did earlier today in just under a minute!
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...m/8Godsend.jpg
I know it's small but it's meant to be so. :p

joshkrz 06-11-2009 01:18 AM

Vector graphics are graphics that do not use pixels. Instead they calculate the points using maths. The graphics you posted are not advanced. There glossy and are very easy to do. The glossy effect was used alot in web design untill recently where its now classed as tacky. If you want glossy images fireworks is the best tool for this or i have been doing them for ages. Look at my avitar, thats glossy. Feel free to request one.

Strike Witch 06-11-2009 02:41 AM

I like how you call yourself a graphic designer in your sig then ask how to make basic stuff.

Nate 06-11-2009 02:56 AM

Everyone has to start somewhere, Strike Witch. Although I have no idea why bobtheguy would start here.

I suggest you find a graphics forum and ask there.

joshkrz 06-11-2009 07:33 AM

Or just PM someone who knows this kind of thing such as myself, carnix, blackvenom and perhaps venks.

BlackVenom 06-11-2009 07:49 AM

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Or just PM someone who knows this kind of thing such as myself, carnix, blackvenom and perhaps venks.

I already suggested help for him above but that only applies if he has photoshop... :S

joshkrz 06-11-2009 07:53 AM

Wow Photoshop has such a complicated way of doing things, that's why I don't use it.

BlackVenom 06-11-2009 08:25 AM

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Wow Photoshop has such a complicated way of doing things, that's why I don't use it.

But it gets the job done and it looks great too! :P

joshkrz 06-11-2009 08:27 AM

Fireworks is much simpler than that and it looks equally as good and can do most things Photoshop can and some things it can't. The only thing its not good with is 300 DPI images. It just eats RAM up.

OANST 06-11-2009 10:12 AM

Photobucket

joshkrz 06-11-2009 10:35 AM

Lol, I doubt that was actual vectors :D

Also BTG I realised you posted some other screen shots, these have probably been done with Photoshop brushes or with shapes and paths in a vector / web graphics program

OANST 06-11-2009 10:38 AM

Ummmm.... It says vector on the fucking box. What more could you possibly want?

joshkrz 06-11-2009 10:40 AM

! Well I didn't think Mega Drive could support vectors. I thought it would of represented vectors rather than using them. And its not me who's asking its Bobtheguy.

bobtheguy 06-11-2009 10:42 AM

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I like how you call yourself a graphic designer in your sig then ask how to make basic stuff.

Yes but I mean that I'm good with pix. art and sprites, not with the stuff I just mentioned.

Laser 06-11-2009 10:44 AM

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graphic designer
Why advertise yourself as one then?

OANST 06-11-2009 10:47 AM

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! Well I didn't think Mega Drive could support vectors. I thought it would of represented vectors rather than using them. And its not me who's asking its Bobtheguy.

It apparently supports vectors, men, and abominations created from the pairing of the two.

joshkrz 06-11-2009 10:48 AM

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It apparently supports vectors, men, and abominations created from the paring of the two.

Oh, I didn't know it would of done.

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That would be "Pixel Art & Sprite Designer", but I suppose there are lots of graphics types, Web Graphics, Vector Graphics, 3D, Pixel, User Interfaces...

OANST 06-11-2009 10:50 AM

You are skirting the real issue. The real issue being why is that cat smoking a fucking cigarette? Cats don't smoke cigarettes.

joshkrz 06-11-2009 10:54 AM

Not in real life they don't, but that purple box is the only inside smoking area since the ban...

Nah, if it was just a cat, it wouldn't be as memorable, and that's the whole point in a logo.

OANST 06-11-2009 10:55 AM

But cats don't smoke cigarettes.

joshkrz 06-11-2009 10:57 AM

I don't know what you want me to say, not everything has to have a meaning. It could be a catnip cigarette?

OANST 06-11-2009 10:58 AM

They don't smoke cigarettes, though.

joshkrz 06-11-2009 11:00 AM

I know they don't.

Wings of Fire 06-11-2009 11:01 AM

It's sexual symbolism, Joshkrz is a bot from a porn site which is trying out experimental ways to make us buy their products.

Laser 06-11-2009 11:01 AM

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They don't smoke cigarettes, though.

I didn't think beagles did either...I guess we learn somthing new every day :happy:

OANST 06-11-2009 11:02 AM

WHAT? BEAGLES DON'T SMOKE CIGARETTES!

joshkrz 06-11-2009 11:02 AM

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It's sexual symbolism, Joshkrz is a bot from a porn site which is trying out experimental ways to make us buy their products.

Well I would of never of thought up that idea myself.

Wings of Fire 06-11-2009 11:04 AM

Of course not, you're a bot. You don't think.

OANST 06-11-2009 11:05 AM

Give us our porn, pornbot.