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MisterAibo — Tumblr Tutorial 4: Trimming Needless Code
Published: 2012-06-11 00:36:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 4668; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 1566
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Previous tutorial: [link]More tutorials and the antics of Professor on askprofessor.tumblr.com !
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I just thought I'd address this issue of inkscape. Of course, this in not terribly frequent or important problem, but still.
TARDIS interior -
clean: [link]
messy: [link]
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts about this one.
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love these lil helps next please show how to cut holes in vectors eg pony eyes or shading a vector out line plz egeg love heart/star to center of a screen
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I love the idea of a pony professor. Keep 'em coming!
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"Importing 2 megabyte" You've never been using Photoshop, I guess. My last vector (10k * 6k) has 230 MB.
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Technically, that wouldn't be a vector - it would be a bitmap. They are rather large. I discussed it in the zeroth tutorial .
Not to mention that bitmaps do not scale well - both ways, usually.
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Yes, but Dr. Whooves above is mentioning bitmaps as well. "When you import a two megabyte file full of bitmaps in your picture, things will not go very well."
And that's the reason why I always have to choose round numbers for my vectors: I can scale it down later (my last one e.g. to 100*60) without losing the proportions. File size: 300kb.
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I find two to be a handier base than ten. And I would strongly recommend you to try using inkscape or illustrator instead of photoshop.
And what the Professor means is the fact that most of the two megabytes of needless code is actually the high-resolution textures, which are in the form of bitmaps. They tend to slow things down considerably and are generally not reliable at all.
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I know, I have both, but that's the problem when you get used to something: There might be something better.
I know I should switch to Inkscape (not just because of scaling, but also because of managing system resources and AA quality, not to mention open source benefits), but I tend to tell myself "Just this one, the next one will be in Inkscape".
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Indeed. Laziness is a powerful thing. But hey, I started up with GIMP. It proved insufficient time and time again and I simply got fed up with it. Inkscape was a bit of a pain to get used to at first, but it paid off.
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I started with GIMP, too, but I didn't count it as vector program
The only reason I chose Photoshop was I already had it installed and I didn't know Inkscape.
After some activities in the #MLP-VectorClub and all the people complaining about missing svg support and stuff, I got Inkscape installed and I hope I can convince myself to finally use it.
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