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The day I write up a nice detailed guide has turned out to be the day that I am testing a new build of Marine Aquarium Time 2.
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Nice... I noticed the tga I made of Tux was much larger than the png... Why use tga at all? I'm no gfx professional but I don't see any advantage...
Edit: God, did I just write "gfx" without even thinking about it? Somebody help me, please...
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Well Targa was the only way that worked 100% in the last build of MAT2. Today's build now supports PNG-24. By way of discussions with Prolific, I think we're going to concentrate all our efforts on PNG-24 and ignore Targa support. I'm sorry that they went to the trouble to write a Targa importer tho.
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The Guide is now completely UPDATED to show how to create logos in PNG-24 format. It is a LOT EASIER to create logos too.
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PNG Logo
Can we see what this should look like?
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Ici
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Um, am I the only one who thinks the carved out effect get totally lost when color is introduced like that?
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.
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Color
I agree, just trying different things. My logo doesn't lend itself to being "carved" as it is a sphere.
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Yes, I agree, no color is best.
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well..maybe it's not craved out but it does looks a bit embossed "out" of the crystal, maybe this is a good effect, making logo embossed out rather embossed in. why not adding a option to adjust the emboss depth? as most of the image processing application does has the depth adjustment for emboss filter.
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Emboss depth can be set in Photoshop or PSP.
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Originally posted by feldon28 Yes, like I said, in many PSP can do that, but for those novice people, it' better for them to has this added in MAL, and even make the emboss out of the crystal, anyway, I shuold post my suggest to wishlist or nevermind, just my 2 cents!
Emboss depth can be set in Photoshop or PSP.
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So you are wanting an improvement in the built-in BMP loading feature, I see. I'll mention it to JR if he doesn't read this.
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Marine Aquarium Logo is now Marine Aquarium Time 2. This should eliminate confusion and make it clear that it is a complete replacement/upgrade for MAT.
I'm hearing "a few days". Since MAT2 won't have a logo loader, I'll probably create one.
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Ok here is my first attempt, kinda small but I like the overall effect.
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And another...
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very nice grape
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Since people are posting theirs, I guess I will show one of mine. I have been working on a LOTR set. Here is one of them.
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