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- WORLD BIRD CARDS 1
- by Jane M. Voskamp-Jones
-
-
- It has been a long while since I
- sent in some Card Art for GEOS, so you
- might not remember where you last saw
- some. If you want to find them, you
- can dig them up on this previous
- Loadstar issue - 5 Forest and 2 Cones
- Cards on issue #195.
-
- I hope that you will enjoy these
- World Bird Cards, and maybe even use
- them. They have provided me with many
- hours of pleasure whilst creating
- them, and a lot of special people tell
- me that they love receiving the cards
- from me.
-
-
- WHO MADE THE BIRDS
-
- The pictures fn World Birds were
- sent to me by Roger Detaille, whom all
- Loadstar readers know hails from St.
- Therese in Quebec, Canada. The Birds
- had obviously been scanned in by
- Roger, using the HandyScanner64 along
- with the PageFox Cartridge. Several
- years ago, when I received the
- graphics, Roger said that I could use
- the graphics in any way that I liked,
- for my own personal use and pleasure.
-
- Well, I certainly did that, and
- many of my family members and friends
- have enjoyed the beauty of the World
- Birds in the form of the cards that I
- have made. I asked Roger whether I
- could share them with Loadstar GEOS
- users, and he has been kind enough to
- give the okay provided that I change
- the art just a little. No Problem
- Roger, and thanks a lot for the art.
-
- There are lots more Birds,
- Flowers, Cartoons, and even Orchids in
- the Art that I have here. If you want,
- I will share as many as I can with
- you, so that you can have as much fun
- on your Commodores with GEOS as I{SHIFT-*}do.
-
-
- ABOUT THESE FILES
-
- Most of the pictures of the Birds
- were rather large, so I thought that I
- should make the Birds overlap to the
- left, to make the Card one that you
- have to open out the credits back page
- to see the complete Bird. The pictures
- remained clearer that way, rather than
- compressing them down, and losing
- detail in the process. These days I
- have even begun coloring in the cards
- with glitter gel pens, and the
- reaction among receivers has been
- fantastic. They all wanted to know how
- I have managed that - shhh, don't tell
- that I cheated will you.
-
- Some slight editing was required
- on the pictures, after which ScrapCan
- v1.3+ (a Nate Fiedler program) was
- used to compile the pictures together
- on a single geoPaint page as you see
- them presented here.
-
- Since my purpose here was to make
- Cards, some graphics needed to be
- flipped on the X-axis, and some on the
- Y-axis before they were ready to be
- used. I used Paint Rotate, (a
- shareware program by Spike Dethman) to
- accomplish this feat as most were
- larger than the geoPaint drawing
- window. ScrapCan v1.3+ pretty much
- handled the pasting to get the graphic
- positioned on the card front.
-
- GeoPaint was used to add the new
- look corners for the inside of the
- cards. The inside card corners were
- obtained from the Border Series1 by
- JMV Grafix. The fonts used for the
- text were LW-Zapf (PD from GeoWorld
- #3), and Border Font (Loadstar64 #95).
- And naturally, the text on the inside
- of the cards was typed in geoPaint,
- after which it needed to be flipped on
- both the x-axis and the y-axis using
- the edit tool, so that it could be
- read correctly after the card is
- folded. All pretty simple really.
-
- The text file was compiled using
- The Write Stuff v2 for C128 (an Eric
- Lee program), using the BB Speller
- feature in a 1750 REU for spell
- correction.
-
- As usual, I had lots of fun
- compiling these Cards. My whole
- Commodore and GEOS system keeps
- working at its best for me. Just the
- way I like it.
-
- Jane (JMV).
-
-
- JMV Grafix PO Box 635 Enfield Plaza
- 5085 South Australia.
-
-
- [DAVE'S NOTE]: As before, I have
- translated some of these images into
- standard C-64 graphics, for the
- non-GEOS folks among us. You can see
- the result on the Run It for this
- file. The GEOS files are Wraptored for
- copying convenience.
-
- DMM
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