I feel your pain, but I have to either be able to get it done myself or have a really good relationship with an always-online and willing PS expert.
It's really a client problem, so having a friend anxious to quote on-demand work is probably the best way to go. Why should it be "free"? R. Mariotti r.mariotti-at-fdcx.net |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote: >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
