http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics This section contains information about to use graphics design tools such as Photoshop, GIMP, Paint Shop Pro, and Inkscape. It also contains information about graphics concepts like Anti-Aliasing, DPI, Graphics File Formats, Hexadecimal Color Notation, Palette, and RGB. Information about color harmony. This section includes free online applications like a CSS Button Designer and a Color Schemer. en-us Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:36:59 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/graphics.xml http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/88111202.asp Sometimes in a drawing, you need a character other than the English alphabet and numbers. For example star maps always use Greek characters to label the stars. Here is how you place Greek letters in an Inkscape Drawing. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:36:59 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/89000301.asp The Pantone system is used mostly to specify colors manufacturing processes. It involves the use of 13 base pigments and white and black mixed in specified amounts. The name "Pantone" comes from the name of the company that developed the system back in the 1950s. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:13:44 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/89002202.asp Animation Programs like Adobe Flash are very expensive, but Pencil is a free Open Source animation program written by animators for animators. And, Pencil also has the best user interface for creating hand-drawn animation. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:20:44 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/89080302.asp Animation has become a booming business these days and there is no doubt in the fact that animation professionals earn a lot more than other people in other professions. There are many types of animation software which that suits our requirements. Some of them are 2D animation programs while others are 3D animation programs. Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:41:12 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90062102.asp This free ebook explains the job of a video game artist and shows you how to design 3D video game models and how to develop a video game that is exciting to play. It introduces you some free but powerful game engines. You'll learn if 3D animation the right career choice for you. Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:06:41 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90062101.asp Blender is a free open-source 3D package with an integrated game engine as well as tools for editing game-logic and creating interactive animation. The Blender GameKit, 2nd Edition is the official guide for 3D artists, animators, and game designers interested in exploring this part of Blender. Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:16:42 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90062301.asp Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play. Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:21:33 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90070403.asp Microsoft has released a game making software suite that allows you to make a video game for Windows XP and Xbox 360. You now have the power to make your own Xbox games at no cost whatsoever. Thu, 27 May 2010 21:27:51 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90070402.asp Often times people spend endless hours drawing the same figures over and over with just a slight change between each drawing. But there are lots of creative techniques you can use to draw fun and interesting animations without the endless repetition. This article shows you nine techniques. Thu, 27 May 2010 16:51:17 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90092803.asp Creating simple videos using Windows Movie Maker is a highly effective way to market your website and you don’t even need a video camera. This article describes how to create a video without a camera using Windows Movie Maker. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:49:39 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/90092902.asp Video marketing is very popular these days. This article shows you how to quickly and easily use a digital camera or a video camera to create your movie for video marketing. Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:19:58 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91011401.asp RBG and CMYK are two of the most popular color spaces. Just about everything uses either one of these color modes. A few examples are your computer monitor (RGB) and anything printed from an offset printer (CMYK). This following is a brief description of these color modes with some examples. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:47:41 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91022902.asp Being a graphic designer can be a pretty pricey thing. Graphic design is an art and software is just a tool like a paint brush. Open Source software development has come up with such cool free products as GIMP, Inkscape and KompoZer. Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:24:01 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91062502.asp Found an interesting video on YouTube that you would like to put on your own website or blog? YouTube has provided many ways to share their videos, but the option to embed the video in your webpage makes it appear to be part of your webpage and makes it most accessible to your website's visitors. Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:51:44 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91062803.asp If you want to make an animated banner, this tutorial will show you how using Adobe Flash and using Actionscript 2.0. Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:35:44 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91101701.asp Do the skies in your photographs look somewhat "blah"? You can make them pop with a few easy tweaks in GIMP, the renowned open-source image editor. Here's how to do it. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:00:02 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/91110402.asp With four–color graphics and screenshots throughout, you’ll learn how to prepare camera images for display on web pages — including processes like rescaling, cropping, and balancing color. Utilizing layers, paths, and masks are also covered in extensive detail. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:07:25 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92012601.asp Haze and color casts in photographs can ruin a good photo; fortunately, they are trivially easy to correct with GIMP, the foremost open-source photo editing software. Here's how. Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:58:24 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92020302.asp Everyone has seen those cute gif animations on the Web. In this article, you'll learn how to create your own gif animations using the free GIMP image editing program. Once you understand the basic steps you'll find it's incredibly easy to create animated gifs with GIMP. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:41:22 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92041101.asp To combine two different paths into one path, you need to join the endnode of one path to the endnode of the other path. To join two endnodes, overlap the two endnodes on top of each other, then combine the paths, then join the endnodes. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:30:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92041301.asp To add a new node on a segment use the Insert new nodes button on the Edit path nodes tool control bar. These steps assume that you have already drawn a segment e.g. using the Bezier Curves and straight lines tool. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92042301.asp Have you created a software product, digital product, or other product that could use an attractive box? This article contains step-by-step instructions for making an attractive box for your product using Photoshop. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/92042601.asp This article shows you how to take an existing cartoon or other image, and create your own version in Photoshop that you can adapt, modify and improve for yourself! Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93042301.asp Inkscape is a free Open Source vector graphics illustration application that comes in versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. In this article, I show you a basic method a beginner can use to get started. Create a drawing by simply creating bezier curves, dragging them into the desired position and adjusting their nodes and control handles. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93050603.asp Inkscape is a free Open Source vector graphics illustration application that works similar to Adobe Illustrator. In this article you'll learn your way around the Inkscape interface, including its toolbars and menus. You'll learn how to zoom and pan to navigate your drawing canvas. And you'll learn how to save and open your drawing files. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93060202.asp The choice of colors for your website is very important because the first message a visitor to your website receives is the psychological message that color communicates. One color scheme can communicate a message of conservative trust, while a different color scheme can send a message of risk and instability. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93062303.asp A logo is the image which represents a company or its product. Its function is to create a memorable, recognizable impression on the mind of a potential client or customer. There are three basic types of logos, which can be used alone or combined within one design. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93082604.asp Businesses can greatly benefit from a professional and unforgettable logo that sets them apart from their competition. Logos are not just fancy graphics that adorn websites or letterhead, logos are a representation of a businesses' philosophy. Logos are a critical component of brand development. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93090201.asp You might want to apply a blur filter to an image for artistic effect, to hide information, to highlight part of an image, or for legal reasons. In this article I show you how to use the various blur filters on your images. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/93092901.asp Inkscape is a free Open Source vector graphics illusttration application that works similar to Adobe Illustrator. A vector graphics application allows you to create images by drawing geometrical shapes like rectangles, elipses, lines, and curves with your computers mouse. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/94021601.asp GIMP is a powerful full-image processing application, and like all powerful applications, its complexity may seem intimidating to inexperienced users. However, you can quickly perform some common basic operations without spending the time to completely learn GIMP. This article will focus on how to scale an image. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/94061601.asp In this article I'll show you how to crop an image to retain only the area you want and how to scale an image so that it fits neatly into your webpage's layout without the user having to download an oversized image that needs to be resized by their browser. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/94072701.asp GIMP is a comprehensive image editing program on the level of Photoshop, in fact it looks and works pretty much the same as Photoshop, with one major exception; Photoshop costs about $800.00 while GIMP is totally free! Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/94082501.asp Anti-Aliasing is a term used lots when selling graphics cards, but what exactly is Anti-Aliasing? We look deeper into the reasoning behind Anti-Aliasing and why we need it in the first place. There are varying types of anti-aliasing producing different results and different levels of performance hit. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/96021704.asp You can specify color using "hexadecimal" notation. Whereas the decimal numbering system uses the characters 0 through 9 to get 10 values, the hexadecimal numbering system uses the characters 0 through f to get 16 values. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/96092901.asp Paint shop Pro (PSP) by JASC, Inc. was the leading shareware graphics application for many years. If you purchased a book that included a CD-ROM, it almost always included a copy of Paint Shop Pro. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/96111101.asp One of the first settings you need to choose when scanning an image is the DPI (Dots Per Inch). This is a very confusing parameter and is often set incorrectly. Scanning an image with an incorrect DPI setting can result in a blurry or slow-loading picture. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/97021110.asp It is incredibly easy to turn a set of GIF images into an animation using WhitSoft Development’s UnFREEz freeware program. First use a graphics program, such as Windows Paint to create a set of images for your animations frames. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/97081420.asp Displaying graphics on your web page can make it more interesting. To display an image on your web page, you need to convert it to the appropriate file format. Which format is best depends upon the character of the image. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/98010441.asp Most computers today are capable of displaying up to 17 million different colors simultaneously. But back when video RAM was scarce, a method was devised that would permit the monitor to display pictures acceptably using only 256 different colors. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/buttonmaker.asp Use the controls to set the properties of your button, your changes will appear immediately. Click on a color in the respective palette to set a color. When satisfied with result, select and copy the code at the bottom of the page. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/colorschemer.asp RGB Color Schemer is a quick way to design a color scheme for your Web page or for other Web graphics. To use RGB Color Schemer, click on a color in the color strip to display the base color in the first box. Click on a scheme button to display the other color(s) for that scheme in another box(es). Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT http://bucarotechelp.com/design/graphics/schemerfaq.asp RGB Color Schemer is a quick way to design a color scheme for your Web page or for other Web graphics. To use RGB Color Schemer, click on a color in the color strip to display the base color in the first box. Click on a scheme button to display the other color(s) for that scheme in another box(es). Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:40:31 GMT