Re: [artworks] Web site updated with AW graphics
- From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:27:22 +0100
In article <1d66be8d50.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <7AC0781C-A8A7-4263-853E-B1EA32197F6E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A 'contrary' task that springs to mind is a droplet (see
> > Richard's thumbnails 7) that looks as much as possible like the
> > photograph of a real droplet.
> I think you are a bit too late there. Henk Huinen has done that
> many years ago (see that famous Acorn Publisher cover with the
> water drops on a window in front of a garden scene at
> http://www.mw-software.com/images/apub.jpg) and his design is both
> simple and highly effective. It did not really show its full
> potential in the actual cover because there were too many drops
> and they were too small, so the background showing through was not
> interesting enough, but they do a stunning job when placed over
> different backgrounds, see the bottommost row in
> http://www.mw-software.com/software/artworks/aw2features12.html for
> a simple example. The effect is even better when the drop is
> placed over an edge with strong contrast, e.g., the edge of a
> letter (see the "P" in the Acorn Publisher logo in the cover). I
> have used that effect many times.
Martin how did you use the Alpha mask (V2.9) over for example a jpeg.
The example you show looks as though this has been done under RISC OS.
Regards
Richard
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