CONCEPT
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Read below for a list of the software and hardware that was used to create this website and the images it contains: |
Much to my chagrin, I get a lot of feedback
about the graphic on my website. Recently, a fan shamed me into restoring all the chapter
banners that I had on the old StarNet webpage. The fan reminded me of how much fun I had with the graphics, and how much pride I took in being able to offer them for the readers. In a pile of CDROMs, I found one that contained all my graphics stuff. Old images, in progress images, discarded images, the whole deal. I found some others on an old ZIP disk that I was about to erase and re-use. I decided, once again, to recreate the "Concept Graphics" portion of my website. I had something similar on the StarNet page, but it had to come down due to space restrictions. The nice people at Sonic.net, however, gave me 50MB of disk space for this website for no extra charge, and so I finally have enough space to put them all back up again. Click on a link at the upper left to go to the appropriate page, and enjoy. |
Hardware
USR 33.6 FaxModem & Software |
I have been asked numerous times
what I use to create these graphics. The actual base images, the ones that I modify to create these images, are taken from the Internet almost exclusively. I downloaded all the Fox promotional material I could find, burned it to CDROMs and ZIP Disks, and kept a master catalog organized by my own system so that I could find images that I needed quickly. Then I "prepped" the images that I thought I would need to start with. For example, a lot of the images that I use have the background dropped out. That is a painstaking process that requires pixel-by-pixel editing. Once I have a good base image of Mulder, Scully, Skinner or some other character, I save that image in a seperate library. I try to save the images at as large a dimension (height x width) as possible, because making a large image smaller is much easier than making a small original larger. In some rare cases, I used my scanner to capture images from magazines, or to create custom image portions, such as the "film" seen in the Duplicity banner. In some upcoming stuff that hasn't been seen yet, I used a Sony Macvia Digital camera (a nifty $1000+ toy my work lets me use sometimes) to capture some custom images of certain firearms. |