Comments on: The New Love of My Life http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/ My own observations, reviews, and stuff I'm working on. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Robert http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5639 Robert Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:17:13 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-5639 Very nice. Although, most of my funny stuff is on another blog. It's in a claim comment somewhere... Very nice. Although, most of my funny stuff is on another blog. It's in a claim comment somewhere…

]]> By: Brian http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5630 Brian Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:40:03 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-5630 Hey Simmons - I added your blof to my roll. We homies now... Hey Simmons – I added your blof to my roll. We homies now…

]]> By: Brian http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4436 Brian Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:16:49 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-4436 The only thing missing now is an open source variant of Flash. *Wrings hands* Then i am like long gone from the windows world. The only thing missing now is an open source variant of Flash. *Wrings hands* Then i am like long gone from the windows world.

]]> By: Robert http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3907 Robert Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:15:17 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-3907 I'm glad you like it. I hate most of my own attempts especially when compared to what real graphic artists can do. I hadn't really considered a step by step guide as it was so insanely easy with Inkscape. It's just made a set of concentric circles by duplicating the one outer circle and changing the radius ("Ctrl+(" I think) and changing the stroke style (Ctrl+F to bring up that dialog). You then just need to make sure that you align the centers of all of the circles. The trick with the text is to create an invisible circle and wrap the text to the curve (that's under the text menu). You can then adjust the location of the text independent of the visible circles. I also had to reverse the path of the invisible circle to get the text to appear on the outside of the curve rather than the inside. Finally, you can rotate the invisible curve to position the text (make sure you aligned all the centers again, it seems to get off if you're not careful). I just eyeballed this. The two objects in the middle were found using Google Image Search. After finding a gif/jpg/bmp I imported it into Inkscape and converted to paths using the built in tool (Shift+Alt+B). I had to play around a bit to get what I wanted. After deleting the paths I didn't care about I had two black and white objects of laurel leaves and the caduceus. After that it was just playing with positioning and colors (although the posted image is still in black and white). The only other tip is that whenever I have problems getting a path from an image I use Gimp to simplify the image before tracing. Usually this just consists of reducing color depth or using the find edges filter in Gimp. Hopefully that helps get you started. I highly recommend the built in tutorials that are built into Inkscape (which I'm still going through). They're really well done. I'm glad you like it. I hate most of my own attempts especially when compared to what real graphic artists can do. I hadn't really considered a step by step guide as it was so insanely easy with Inkscape.

It's just made a set of concentric circles by duplicating the one outer circle and changing the radius ("Ctrl+(" I think) and changing the stroke style (Ctrl+F to bring up that dialog). You then just need to make sure that you align the centers of all of the circles.

The trick with the text is to create an invisible circle and wrap the text to the curve (that's under the text menu). You can then adjust the location of the text independent of the visible circles. I also had to reverse the path of the invisible circle to get the text to appear on the outside of the curve rather than the inside. Finally, you can rotate the invisible curve to position the text (make sure you aligned all the centers again, it seems to get off if you're not careful). I just eyeballed this.

The two objects in the middle were found using Google Image Search. After finding a gif/jpg/bmp I imported it into Inkscape and converted to paths using the built in tool (Shift+Alt+B). I had to play around a bit to get what I wanted. After deleting the paths I didn't care about I had two black and white objects of laurel leaves and the caduceus. After that it was just playing with positioning and colors (although the posted image is still in black and white).

The only other tip is that whenever I have problems getting a path from an image I use Gimp to simplify the image before tracing. Usually this just consists of reducing color depth or using the find edges filter in Gimp.

Hopefully that helps get you started. I highly recommend the built in tutorials that are built into Inkscape (which I'm still going through). They're really well done.

]]> By: Lev http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3879 Lev Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:02:03 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-3879 Can you post a step by step guide on how you made the logo. It looks awesome. Thanks! Can you post a step by step guide on how you made the logo. It looks awesome.

Thanks!

]]> By: Robert http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 Robert Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:25:23 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-3631 Thanks. The link's been fixed. Thanks. The link's been fixed.

]]> By: Richard Querin http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3630 Richard Querin Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:00:49 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-love-of-my-life/#comment-3630 Yeah, I love Inkscape too. The other great thing about using it for logos and other designs is that since it's svg, you can export it to whatever size of bitmap you want without fiddling with resolution and pixelation. ps - the link to inkscape in your post doesn't point to inkscape.org. I think it points to your previous post. Cheers. Yeah, I love Inkscape too. The other great thing about using it for logos and other designs is that since it's svg, you can export it to whatever size of bitmap you want without fiddling with resolution and pixelation.

ps – the link to inkscape in your post doesn't point to inkscape.org. I think it points to your previous post.

Cheers.

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