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I feel your pain, but I have to either be able to get it done myself or 
have a really good relationship with an always-online and willing PS expert.

It's really a client problem, so having a friend anxious to quote 
on-demand work is probably the best way to go. Why should it be "free"?





R. Mariotti r.mariotti-at-fdcx.net |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

>Fellow PHP'ers;
>
>As a developer, most times for a professional site the graphical 
>components might be conveniently delivered by the design person.  This 
>makes for very easy reference and literally plug-in.
>
>However, like today, there is often the occasion where someone desires a 
>change in some of the text that is already part of an image.   The 
>technique I usually use is to make a copy of the image then use gimp to 
>cut-out the undesired portion then add the new text to the image and 
>move it around finally flattening it, saving it then uploading to the 
>site.  Most times it works reasonably well (sort of!)
>
>But, the clarity and precision of these resulting images are certainly 
>not up to the quality that the original displayed.  I don't know the 
>real reason because I'm not a graphics designer/artist.  It appears that 
>the fonts, even though anti-aliased, are not as sharp as the original.
>
>So, what other techniques do most of you use to accomplish the same? 
>Surely not everyone has an in-house graphics artist.  I know I never 
>had.  What programs and/or techniques are customarily used to accomplish 
>this feat?
>
>While this is not entirely a php question, it certainly is php developer 
>related so that's why I though of posting to this list.
>
>Thank you all.
>
>B
>