tommy42 wrote:
Oh that was Bob's Photoshop handywork. I thought it was Bill's. Hey that's pretty good Bob. How long you been playing with Photoshop?
No PhotoShop in this case. We used a combination of GIMP and KolourPaint (both Linux tools) starting with a Google Earth view of the area.
tommy42 wrote:
How did you do the arching yellow lines to the red dots. Looks like a great logo, but kind of long. Although, I think a long logo is appropriate for the long distances theme.
We made it long because we wanted it to handle wide screens. Since it's compressed, all that black out there doesn't really add much size to the file itself. I thought it was long enough to handle most any screen, but my work monitor is so big that it still didn't cover the whole top of the page.
We started with Google Earth and put pushpins at all the endpoints. Then we rotated it to get the view we wanted. We took screen shots of that view both with and without the pushpins. Then we edited the pushpin version to mark small red dots at the location of each endpoint and turned the rest of that version transparent. Then we copied that transparent version on top of the un-push-pinned version to get the endpoints marked on the original map. We then used a path drawing tool to connect the red dots with yellow lines and added text labels for the distances.
So there was a lot of hand work involved. There's no way we could have done the things that you've done using that technique. Your PhotoShop work is very cool!!
