17-06-2011, 09:33 PM
Thanks for the interesting responses guys, and well done to Brian on his excellent creation from scratch of the TV info, also for the helpful tips. I do use Paint for such things as anotating pictures and drawings, and I've seen some splendid efforts by people who've made front panels for home-brew projects using Paint. I think the problem for some of us - me for example - is that we dabble in so many things that we end up not being truly competent in any of them because the time that has to be invested in moving up the learning curve is disproportionate and the 'opportunty cost' (the things that you could otherwise do with your time) is too great.
Photoshop has moved on quite a lot since the version that I still use from 2006 - Elements 4, and probably has lots of features that I'd never want to use. The nearest book I could find was 'Elements 8 in Easy Steps' so I fumble along with that, though naturally it's more about editing photographs than about what I want to do. I've been quite pleased with what I've been able to do in cleanning up dial scans and PCB artwork which has often been poor scans of magazine artwork, not of good enough quality to make a mask for UV exposure until the opacity of the tracks has been increased, and sometimes tracks widened or re-routed.
All good clean fun!
David
Photoshop has moved on quite a lot since the version that I still use from 2006 - Elements 4, and probably has lots of features that I'd never want to use. The nearest book I could find was 'Elements 8 in Easy Steps' so I fumble along with that, though naturally it's more about editing photographs than about what I want to do. I've been quite pleased with what I've been able to do in cleanning up dial scans and PCB artwork which has often been poor scans of magazine artwork, not of good enough quality to make a mask for UV exposure until the opacity of the tracks has been increased, and sometimes tracks widened or re-routed.
All good clean fun!
David
