Re: RAIL ASIA [1.11.12] QUENCHED

[natty dread]

This looks really great cairns! Good job.

[isaiah40]

This is puuuurrrrrrfect cairns!! Well done!!

[cairnswk]

guys, you can well jump up and down at this if you want but i still far from impressed at PS
I still have to go through now and re-size every single station again on the grid because when up-scaling the image, PS doesn't keep the outer edge of the stroke lines on the grid.
it's a shame that i had to go through this process for the lines, not mention the other shit that went with it. Version 29 was still overall better than this version even though it now has perrrrffffeeeccctttly straight boxes.
This has taken 4 attempts at re-doing stations from wow to go in three diferent programs just to satisfy this condition, and i consider that unreasonable for a site that doesn't pay professionally, nor for other commentors who can't also live-up to their own professional ideals.
And i am still not happy that i have had to re-draw this in PS and lost the quality of the background image because it had to be "placed" in PS.

So...there is still a way to go yet.

[koontz1973]

Good work cairnswk. Stations look perfect.

Posted this but removed and now reposting it.

[DiM]

let me just say that the new stations are wonderful.

[natty dread]

And i am still not happy that i have had to re-draw this in PS and lost the quality of the background image because it had to be "placed" in PS.

How is that?

Can't you export the background image (ie. the map without the stations) as a bitmap in the original software, then import that bitmap in PS and add the stations on top of it there? The background should stay unchanged that way.

That said, I don't really see anything wrong with the background though... what exactly is the problem with it?

[cairnswk]

Version 31.

Click image to enlarge.

http://www.peeje.com/files/359944427/Ra ... inal_6.xml

[DiM]

1. the top of the tbs station is faulty. a and j aren't aligned to form a proper tip. not sure how to explain this better...


2. the dsh station pentagon is slightly tilted to the right, thus forming a weird skewed pentagon. also the way the corners form is a bit off. like the little isosceles trapezes aren't aligned


3. alignment issues on the bjn station too.

[ender516]

I have a bad feeling that the misalignments in the various polygons that DiM has pointed out may be due to restricting the vertices to an alignment grid, which got us the very crisp lines we are seeing now. I do hope we are not faced with a choice of one or the other.

[cairnswk]

I have a bad feeling that the misalignments in the various polygons that DiM has pointed out may be due to restricting the vertices to an alignment grid, which got us the very crisp lines we are seeing now. I do hope we are not faced with a choice of one or the other.

There is a compromise...above.

[natty dread]

Maybe I'm missing something but is there a reason why you can't do what I said in my last post?

Can't you export the background image (ie. the map without the stations) as a bitmap in the original software, then import that bitmap in PS and add the stations on top of it there? The background should stay unchanged that way.

[cairnswk]

Maybe I'm missing something but is there a reason why you can't do what I said in my last post?

Can't you export the background image (ie. the map without the stations) as a bitmap in the original software, then import that bitmap in PS and add the stations on top of it there? The background should stay unchanged that way.

natty i don't have time right now as i have uni on, but will explain fully by Thursday.

[cairnswk]

Maybe I'm missing something but is there a reason why you can't do what I said in my last post?

Can't you export the background image (ie. the map without the stations) as a bitmap in the original software, then import that bitmap in PS and add the stations on top of it there? The background should stay unchanged that way.

natty. the original was done in Coreldraw.
CD doesn't save to but exports to PS.
the below image shows the deterioration on the original.

Srcreenshots...
A = the original
B = the exported file
C= the placed image into PS.
It doesn't matter whether you export as vector or default, but bitmaps deteriorate worse so that wasn't an option.

I simply feel that by the time you export from one program into another and then export out again to another .png, there is going to be loss of image intergrity, and it is this i am disappointed in.

[ender516]

Could ImageMagick be of any assistance here? I understand that it is quite the image file converter.

[natty dread]

What I mean is, export the image from Coreldraw into a PNG, without the stations... the same way you originally saved the image directly from coreldraw. Then import that PNG as a regular layer in photoshop. Then just add the stations in photoshop like you did before. That way, the background should look the same way as originally, when you only used coreldraw.