Daniel,

I hope I'm not stretching things, but would you agree to make your original Corel art work on your TSU3000 v1'02.pcf available?

As many others, I've designed mine around your GUI design, but often I find that I need to change, for example the text on one of your bitmap buttons: pretty crazy to do on the end result bitmap.

There are licensing issues on the Swiss Font that Daniel used. The corel files are most likely not useable unless you have the same font installed.

Daniel, can you comment or are the fonts you used available freely on the web. Last time I looked, I had to dig long and hard to come up with them. FTP sites, etc...

As far as I know they are not available free on the web. Corel sets up special licensing deals with companies to bundle their fonts... and if you've ever seen the cost of buying a "real" font family, you'll quickly realize that Corel's worth the price just for the fonts! :-)

I don't really like releasing the original vector artwork. It's not what I would call "easily editable".

I too have made my PCF's 100% around Daniels design - both the greyscale version and a new colourised version I have made. In my view its the best and most intuitive use of space designed yet.

The fonts have always posed a bit of a problem but the way I got around around it generally, is cutting and pasting, letter by letter in Photoshop or whatever graphic program you use. Its can be a bit tedious but its definitely worth the effort.

Daniel,

One last shot on accessing your Corel art work and then I'll give up.

I am licenced for Corel. What I was hoping you would accept was to share the button backgrounds. Ex: I want to use a button design of yours but need to have it show "yes" on it. If I had access to your background, the rest is easy. But working backwards from a bitmap is painful, unless one simply slaps a sloppy rectangle over the text part and overlays new text.

As others have said, your PCF is a piece of art. It certainly hooked me.

However, the enormous amount of work you evidently put in this is your property, and I respect that. I just want to eliminate the possibility that it's only a licencing barrier, because it's not in my case.

CV27,
if it's just a few buttons you are talking about, you can mail them to me.
I'll see, what I can do.
Greets
André

André,

Thanks for the offer. For now, I found a compromise. I opened this thread thinking of my next phase of development. I like to be autonomous. I could get back into Corel and redo Daniel's buttons from scratch, but laziness...you know.

Which buttons in particular?

From your 1.02 PCF, under the Gallery, the buttons on the "GUI Home" and "Power interface" pages

Since Lyndell highlighted the Daniel's fonts on this thread - it certainly been a lot easier to match text in modifications of Daniel's layout. I'm using Photoshop and the new text I make sits on the bitmaps nicely (no sloppy rectangles).

However there is one area where it would be great to have access to the raw files and that is the tabs at the bottom of the frame (they match the hard buttons). Although its easy to place labels on the tabs, or to overlay the Swiss font on them, it would be brilliant to match the "engraved" look of page counters on the page tabs.

Like CV27, I too respect Daniels artwork and know this ask may be beyond the limit.

Alternately, if any graphic wizz knows how this engraved look could be achieved by working solely with the bitmaps, it would be great to hear how do to it

King... or Rock...,
whatever... using Photoshop it should be fairly easy to make the engraved effect using Layer effects.
Simply select the text layer, then select Layers / Styles / Bevel and emboss. Needs a little bit of playing around, but should pose no problem (if we're talking about the same buttons, that is ;-) )
André

Nice one Andre - thanks for the tip.
Cheers
Adam