Calling all skinners...
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Have any of you had to draw up a cool looking skin for some kind of virtual or simulated device such as a DVD/CD player, cell phone, or just some fake device? If so, what graphical tool did you use? Do you recomment some cheap but powerfull CAD program, or do you crank it out using photoshop or fireworks. A CAD program that can render various textures and stuff appears to be the best tool for this job. What do you guys/gals think? Kind regards, Tim
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Have any of you had to draw up a cool looking skin for some kind of virtual or simulated device such as a DVD/CD player, cell phone, or just some fake device? If so, what graphical tool did you use? Do you recomment some cheap but powerfull CAD program, or do you crank it out using photoshop or fireworks. A CAD program that can render various textures and stuff appears to be the best tool for this job. What do you guys/gals think? Kind regards, Tim
A CAD program is probably the worst idea ever to create a skin, why not use photoshop, and if that's too expensive, try Photoshop Elements - I have used both to create custom user interfaces cheers, Darka www.xfcpro.com
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A CAD program is probably the worst idea ever to create a skin, why not use photoshop, and if that's too expensive, try Photoshop Elements - I have used both to create custom user interfaces cheers, Darka www.xfcpro.com
The reason why I mentioned a CAD program is because the "skin" is not just simple window or control shapes. I'm creating a device with contoured sides, a lot of curves, and I want the proper lighting and shading effects for the complex 3D shapes. I could probably model what I want faster in a CAD drawing and apply the desired effects faster than I could create the complex shapes from basic shapes and feehand using any 2D drawing package. Perhaps I just need to learn the "photoshop tricks" or fireworks in my case. Kind regards, Tim