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Regarding having an artist do the work, that's probably going to be the way it works out in the end.
However, I've always been a "generalist", so I've been able to handle writing, some imaging and other chores (including computer problems themselves), thus I want to learn how to do my own line art if possible.
I forgot about GIMP and will download it and give it a try.
-- Ken in Atlanta
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:03 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Friedman <
daniel -dot- friedman42 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> If you have illustrator and an artist that will do them in vector format
> for $5 an image, that is a pretty good deal. You would probably want an
> artist to do it so you can get all angles of the product (there's always
> that one component you need a specific side view from). Also, raster line
> art is very difficult to work with as it can be hard to change even a small
> thing (removing a button), or resize the images for high DPI printing.
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>
> wrote:
>
> > Nope.
> >
> > All we have are Windows "Paint" (the remnants of the once-glorious
> > standalone "PC Paintbrush" program whose company was located on Delk Rd
> in
> > Marietta, a northwest Atlanta suburb), Corel PhotoPaint 8, and Adobe
> > Illustrator.
> > -- Ken in Atlanta
> >
> >
> >Â Â On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 11:40 AM, "Stuckey, Ginger" <
> > X2BVSHEW -at- SOUTHERNCO -dot- COM> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Â Do you have AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or ProE? If I remember right, most of
> > those can do it.
> >
> > Ginger Stuckey
> > Technical Publications - Design
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: techwr-l-bounces+x2bvshew=southernco -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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> > techwr-l-bounces+x2bvshew=southernco -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf
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> > Ken Poshedly
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:38 AM
> > To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> > Subject: photos to line art conversions
> >
> > We have need to convert various photos (jpg format) to line art for our
> > operator manuals (heavy construction equipment). This will be ongoing and
> > is not a set number of images.
> > I have Corel PhotoPaint Version 8.0 on my (Windows XP) platform, but
> > haven't found anything in it that can accomplish this.
> > I know this can be done in Adobe Photoshop, but management here won't
> > spring money for almost anything, although we did locate an individual in
> > Thailand who charges $5 per image and does very nice work.
> >
> > So the questions are:
> >
> >Â - Is there an undocumented method to convert photos to line art using
> > Corel PhotoPaint Version 8.0?
> >
> >
> >Â - Is there a free software package that can do this if PhotoPaint won't
> > do it and I can't get the bucks to the use the Thailand source?
> >
> > -- Ken in Atlanta
> >
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