I just knew the hits would come eventually... Gary and Alan, Hi...
Thanks ever so much for continuing to reply to this topic--I mean, this may be the skeleton in the closet for a lot of us: counter envy. Once upon a time I had a really nice, little freeware tidbit called Easy Vassal Counter Creator v.3.0 (actually, something not quite as easily remembered), a program that someone, somewhere spent (what should have been) the best years of his marriage laboring over. I fooled around w/ it for a time and generated an exquisite little game piece that inspired me to try again. I couldn't locate that software and uninstalled it--I must have found it inexcusably lacking for some reason. (I do recall that it didn't have a voice recognition feature and that irritated me.) Well, I have looked at every suggestion posted here--not Gimp or Photoshop. (I like Gimp's price but couldn't handle the "sans serif" error and a bunch of small windows opening w/ nothing to suggest intelligent integration, though I know the experts swear by it. Photoshop is beyond my buget.) It isn't that the interfaces are all that intimidating. The problem is that, while most of us can edit photos and layer--I've done several reworks of work--mine and others--to great effect. The issue is whether the average user feels comfortable doing the work of what are ordinarily features of a drop-down menu. In other words, it is one thing to apply a bevel but quite another one to create one yourself. I have no pretensions that I can, from scratch, accomplish anything that even the most modest image editing programs achieve through their feature options. To that end, I found the best program for the money was Xara3D--but I didn't have the money. I settled for a program out of Red China: IconCool: http://www.iconcool.com/icon-editor.htm , $19.95. I think that most users here will agree that it is fairly full featured, though whether I can make it behave is another story. I guess I will reach and assume that, while it doesn't sound like it, there may be quite a few types like me, who would like to dress up a game or two, but who also don't have either the time (all of us are challenged there, though) or the confidence to really let things fly. So, many thanks for all the help--I considered all the advice... And will be back, Whit --- In [email protected], Gary Krockover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Photoshop is a piece of cake for me - now. I've been working with it since version 5 on the Mac and now up to version CSS2 on the PC (and to be honest, I prefer version 7 on the PC). > > I do remember the first time that I looked at it though - it was intimidating. I mean, ok, I can pick the paintbrush and draw a squiggly line, and I can draw a box but I didn't know what to do with it from there. > > I'd say that using the program itself is really easy, it's just knowing how to use the various tools properly and how to achieve the desired look that is the learning curve. > > GJK > > At 09:13 AM 8/9/2006, you wrote: > >This is kind of off topic, but an honest question. What exactly is it > >about Photoshop that people consider "difficult"? I'm wondering how > >much of that is social conditioning, or people being misled by some > >phantom reputation, because there's nothing really difficult about it. > > > >Alan > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
