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How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - PeterP - 11-07-2008 Hi, Following some of the amazing renderings of 'desired' calculators here I was hoping that someone can point me in the right direction on how to change an existing image of the 41 keyboard layout with some custom words to basically create a good looking overlay. So for example, I'd like to have the text 'MPVIEW' instead of 'VIEW' on the shifted R/S key. How can I best accomplish this? Thanks for any help! Peter
PS: here is the image I have for the 41cx keyboard Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Jeff O. - 11-07-2008 There are probably better ways, but I do it by creating new labels out of the available labels, cutting and pasting to spell the desired new ones:
In the above, I took the P from the R->P label. Since there are no M's available on the keyboard, I created one from one of the N's.
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - PeterP - 11-07-2008 gee, you are a wizard!! I'm very impressed...
1)Which software do you use?
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Jeff O. - 11-07-2008 Quote:Thank you very much. That may be the first time I've been called a wizard at anything! Quote:If I tell you all of my secrets, I may not seem so wizard-like and you would be disillusioned. (Kind of like when you learn how the magician does his tricks.) Seriously, I did the work in plain ol' Microsoft Paint. I created the M by copying the left half of the N, flipping it horizontally, then pasting it back over the N. Quote:Well, for some reason I do enjoy doing such things. Post up what you would like and I'll try to take a crack at it. A row by row listing, example below, should suffice: Row 1: E+ yx x2 10x exAlthough the image you provided above will work fine, If you have a higher resolution picture available that would be good. Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Egan Ford - 11-07-2008 Are you doing this for i41CXp? If so blank overlays are available from the i41CXp site. I created the Forth and TVM overlays for the current i41CXp. I used GIMP.
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - NACHO - 11-07-2008 hi! how did you create those blank overlays??
thanks
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Egan Ford - 11-07-2008 I didn't, I just downloaded them from: http://alsoftiphone.com/i41CXplus/AdditionalOverlays/
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Walter B - 11-07-2008 As Jeff told already, you can do almost everything using MS Paint. To add a point, it also offers text writing, which saves you creating the labels the way Jeff explained. If you mix both techniques and add some tuning, you may reach pretty nice results. Just a matter of precision, patience, and some feeling for artwork. No magic, witchwork nor sorcery were applied in the creation of the 43s and its siblings (so far ;) HTH,
Walter
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - PeterP - 11-07-2008 well, that would be a service extraordinaire, I'd be most thankful! A perfect layout would be the one below but I can produce a reduced version if this is too difficult: Row 1 shift MPGETM yx x2 MPY^X MPX^2 Obviously, this is the complete keyboard. All the new items start with 'MP'. It is the keyboard that I use for playing with the multi-precision library. Unfortunately I do not have a higher precision picture than the one I posted. It is the .png file for the i41CX. let me know what you think, this would be truly awesome! Cheers
Peter
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Pal G. - 11-07-2008 If anyone can get a hold of Maciej Bartosiak, I would ask him how he or someone else created the skins for the OSX Nonpareil calcs. They are PIXEL ART. They are incredibly clean and iMHO the nicest I've seen.
Edited: 7 Nov 2008, 8:44 p.m.
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Walter B - 11-08-2008 Quote:As a matter of fact, this work and the respective skins for Free42 impressed me, too, and got me started. Eventually it's easier to produce such clean skins than more realistic ones. Edited: 8 Nov 2008, 2:36 a.m.
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Jeff O. - 11-10-2008 Peter,
Sorry, no way to fit "MPGETX" on a key, so I did the best I could :-) The above image is a .gif file. A .png would not fit in my guest folder here. If you would like a .png version, you will have to provide me with an e-mail address so I can send it to you. Either post it here or contact me through the MoHPC. Jeff
Note - Original image replaced with smaller file to save space.
Edited: 10 Nov 2008, 12:24 p.m. after one or more responses were posted
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - PeterP - 11-10-2008 holy cow jeff!!! This looks fantastic, exactely what I had envisioned. Very impressed. Thanks (and you have mail) Cheers
Peter
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - V-PN - 11-11-2008 Is it possible get a higher resolution picture?
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - PeterP - 11-11-2008 Hi Veli-Pekka, so good to read from you again, haven't seen you in a while around here! I do have a .png from the overlay Jeff produced as well as a .png from Al (i41cx) for the normal keyboard. If you send me a msg with your email address, I email them to you. Hope all is well! Cheers
Peter
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - Jeff O. - 11-12-2008 V-PN,
Re: How to Make a good looking Overlay image? - V-PN - 11-12-2008 Not a particular interest, but..the curiosity killed the cat should be in your inbox [NT] - PeterP - 11-12-2008 cheers,
Peter
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