Conquer Club

natty dread wrote:Did you try the lasso tool for the cities?

you mean for Praha and Bratislava borders? and lasso tool, you mean Free Select Tool?

I used Free Select Tool and then Bucket Fill Tool, I also used Fuzzy Select Tool with which I select grey centre of city and then I used Draw Selected, I also tried to add Path around city and Draw Path...

it was and still is pixelated...

Oneyed

Yes, the free select tool. First use it to make a city-shaped selection. Do this on a new, empty layer. Then fill the selection with black, then shrink the selection by 2, and then fill the selection with grey.

natty this is made by your advice. so look at this, I can not do it better.... sorry...



Oneyed

That's odd... You should be able to make smooth selections with the free selection tool. When you use it, do you have the "antialiasing" option checked?

Maybe try working at a higher zoom level?

yes I had always antialiasing choosen. hm, I realy do not know where is problem, look how looks state border, towns...

here is new version.


natty is here any chance that you can help me with these cities?

Oneyed

Oneyed wrote:natty is here any chance that you can help me with these cities?

Like they say - if you give a hungry man a fish, he's fed for a day; but if you teach him how to fish, he's fed for the rest of his life...

Try this: set your zoom at 300%, then select the lasso tool. Now draw the city shape without ever taking your finger off the mouse, don't just click points with it... just draw with it like you draw with the paintbrush. Draw the city shape with it this way and you should get a selection with smooth edges.

Then just do the rest of the steps like I said... fill with black, then shrink selection by 2 (in the selection menu, select shrink) and then fill with grey.

natty dread wrote:Like they say - if you give a hungry man a fish, he's fed for a day; but if you teach him how to fish, he's fed for the rest of his life...

day is sometimes enough...

I followed your last help. so what do you think, could i eat fish all year?


Oneyed

Well, it's getting better.

natty dread wrote:Well, it's getting better.

wait, wait what does mean? we sould go with this?

Oneyed

Well they're good enough for now, you can improve them later.

Now about the highways, why don't you make them go all the way to the towns & cities? Why do they cut off just a bit before the city/town?

natty dread wrote:Well they're good enough for now, you can improve them later.

uf

natty dread wrote:Now about the highways, why don't you make them go all the way to the towns & cities? Why do they cut off just a bit before the city/town?

I had them as you wrote, but I did not like it.

Oneyed

I looks like your getting in to something smooting it out, greate work

Now you realy need to find a better looking coat of arms, the current one looks, ehhem bad.

Flapcake wrote:I looks like your getting in to something smooting it out, greate work

thanks.

this is the best coa what I found:


Oneyed

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _CSFRc.svg
You can use that.

tokle wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/CoA_CSFRc.svg
You can use that.

thanks, but I used this one. it is too big and when I resized it, it looked bad...

Oneyed wrote:

tokle wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/CoA_CSFRc.svg
You can use that.

thanks, but I used this one. it is too big and when I resized it, it looked bad...

Really?
It looks fine when I do it. It's an SVG file, so you should be able to reduce the size without it looking worse at all.

How about:

this is the result. do you like it?



Oneyed

Oneyed, when you resize things, do you have the interpolation algorithm set to Sinc?

When you select the scale tool, the tool settings has a drop-down box that says "Interpolation", if you set it to "sinc (lanczos3)" before you resize things, you'll get better results.

natty dread wrote:Oneyed, when you resize things, do you have the interpolation algorithm set to Sinc?

When you select the scale tool, the tool settings has a drop-down box that says "Interpolation", if you set it to "sinc (lanczos3)" before you resize things, you'll get better results.

natty, this advice should become a week sooner . I could had much less problems... thank you very much - yours advices work perfect

tokle, thanks for coa. and sorry for my not knowing of GIMP possibilities



Oneyed

Oneyed wrote:natty, this advice should become a week sooner . I could had much less problems... thank you very much - yours advices work perfect

Ok, no problem. Just so you don't have to change the setting every time, do this:

Go to preferences (in the edit menu), there go to "tool options" and set "default interpolation" to Sinc, this way the interpolation will always be set to it when you start gimp.

This is realy looking nice now, all smooted out

One nick picking thing, thers some white pixels at the borders between the territorys, is it suposed to be like this ? ohterwise you can easily fill it out whit the brush

hmm wheres the draft stamp ?

Flap

A few things that could use attention before we start talking about stamps and whatnot...

The background looks really blurry and messy. Maybe you could find a better one? Or try making one yourself. There are some sites with free textures and patterns, you could search for a paper texture from one of those.

http://www.cgtextures.com/
http://www.textureking.com/

Also, the colour scheme of the map seems kind of drab and dull. Try making the colours a bit more lively.

here is new version with another background and some little graphics things.

Flapcake wrote:hmm wheres the draft stamp ?

Flap

thanks Flap. so where is it?

Oneyed

:ike the border but the lines on the map could be toned down a bit. Also, everything looks really crisp and sharp, which does not look good on the paper you have it. Wrinkle up the borders a tad.

koontz1973 wrote:everything looks really crisp and sharp, which does not look good

What?