08.06.2011, 23:57
Hello,
I need cockpit graphics for WW2 planes. I decided today that I should give it a try and make them myself. I'm a total newbie with Photoshop that I've used until now only for very basic tasks (resizing/cropping pictures).
Based on those 2 tutorials #1 #2 I made this graphic from scratch in some hours:
![[Image: alt2copytmp.png]](http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4355/alt2copytmp.png)
Now I'd like to ask you for some help to basically create the bezel and add some effects to make it a bit more realistic. Could you point me to some other tutorials or give me some hints ?
A friend of mind who is a graphic designer told me that I should stick to vector graphics so that I can resize them to my needs without loosing any quality and that's what I've done until now. I wonder though which are the limitation when I use only vector layers. For example, in one of the tutorial some grain was added to the numbers and tics but this makes the picture rasterized. What would be a workaround for this ?
Other question, I did this in Photoshop but would Illustator be better to do such graphics ?
Thanks for your help,
Tex
I need cockpit graphics for WW2 planes. I decided today that I should give it a try and make them myself. I'm a total newbie with Photoshop that I've used until now only for very basic tasks (resizing/cropping pictures).
Based on those 2 tutorials #1 #2 I made this graphic from scratch in some hours:
Now I'd like to ask you for some help to basically create the bezel and add some effects to make it a bit more realistic. Could you point me to some other tutorials or give me some hints ?
A friend of mind who is a graphic designer told me that I should stick to vector graphics so that I can resize them to my needs without loosing any quality and that's what I've done until now. I wonder though which are the limitation when I use only vector layers. For example, in one of the tutorial some grain was added to the numbers and tics but this makes the picture rasterized. What would be a workaround for this ?
Other question, I did this in Photoshop but would Illustator be better to do such graphics ?
Thanks for your help,
Tex