Re: gEDA-user: Hand-made "PNG export"

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very nice!

Steve Meier

Ben Jackson wrote:
> I didn't care for the PNG exporter so I laboriously made a PNG with
> screendumps and the GIMP.
>
> 	http://ad7gd.net/misc/flexpretty.png
>
> Main steps:
>
> Took snapshot of only soldermask, changed color, made partially transparent.
> Used select by color to delete all the holes.
>
> Took snapshot of all top copper, used select by color to get it all selected
> and then did a gradient fill with a gold gradient for that SMOBC look.
> Then I inverted the selection and deleted the rest.
>
> Took a snapshop of the top silk, inverted it, then used levels to make the
> black really black and set the layer mode to 'add'.
>
> Put a black background behind it all.
>
> Did it all at 2x of the final resolution so I could do a shrink by 2x at
> the end for anti-aliasing.
>
> Any HID experts want to guess at how hard it would be to make an exporter
> that did this sort of thing automatically?
>
>   



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