Fellow PHP'ers; As a developer, most times for a professional site the graphical components might be conveniently delivered by the design person. This makes for very easy reference and literally plug-in.
However, like today, there is often the occasion where someone desires a change in some of the text that is already part of an image. The technique I usually use is to make a copy of the image then use gimp to cut-out the undesired portion then add the new text to the image and move it around finally flattening it, saving it then uploading to the site. Most times it works reasonably well (sort of!) But, the clarity and precision of these resulting images are certainly not up to the quality that the original displayed. I don't know the real reason because I'm not a graphics designer/artist. It appears that the fonts, even though anti-aliased, are not as sharp as the original. So, what other techniques do most of you use to accomplish the same? Surely not everyone has an in-house graphics artist. I know I never had. What programs and/or techniques are customarily used to accomplish this feat? While this is not entirely a php question, it certainly is php developer related so that's why I though of posting to this list. Thank you all. B _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
