ShatnersBassoon Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) What program do you guys like to use to draw out your designs? I would love to get to grips with something where I could do full scale, realistic looking models of possible future creations! Maybe something where I could superimpose the photos of the woods I am using on to the designs. I believe Sketch Up is good? I’m pretty computer savvy although something that doesn’t have an insane learning curve would be cool. Cheers! Edited August 18, 2018 by ShatnersBassoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'm not going to be much help, I'm afraid. My software of choice are grubby half gnawed pencils and scraps of foolscap. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 I use photoshop... not because it is a great tool, but because I have learned it over the years in other capacities. Gimp is a good free version of it. I should really get to know gimp as my ps is outdated and is just a limited version I got ages ago. Gimp seems to have all the same functionality, but a different gui. I take pictures of my actual wood and have built a folder of them. Its nice to be able to play with the images and decide the orientation of said wood. Still learning new things there, and def a challenge to make the finished build live up to the drawing but: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 Inkscape is a pretty cool vector drawing package - and is completely free. You can use a path as a mask on embedded bitmaps for mock-ups. It's a bit of a learning curve, as any vector-based drawing package will be. However if you've ever used something like CorelDRAW! you'll be right at home I've used it to design all sorts of templates, logos & inlays https://inkscape.org/en/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShatnersBassoon Posted September 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 On 8/22/2018 at 12:52 PM, mistermikev said: I use photoshop... not because it is a great tool, but because I have learned it over the years in other capacities. Gimp is a good free version of it. I should really get to know gimp as my ps is outdated and is just a limited version I got ages ago. Gimp seems to have all the same functionality, but a different gui. I take pictures of my actual wood and have built a folder of them. Its nice to be able to play with the images and decide the orientation of said wood. Still learning new things there, and def a challenge to make the finished build live up to the drawing but: Looks a bit BC Rich'y...except classier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShatnersBassoon Posted September 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 On 8/29/2018 at 12:27 PM, Norris said: Inkscape is a pretty cool vector drawing package - and is completely free. You can use a path as a mask on embedded bitmaps for mock-ups. It's a bit of a learning curve, as any vector-based drawing package will be. However if you've ever used something like CorelDRAW! you'll be right at home I've used it to design all sorts of templates, logos & inlays https://inkscape.org/en/ Cheers, will check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 On 9/11/2018 at 1:21 PM, ShatnersBassoon said: Looks a bit BC Rich'y...except classier so bichy then? have been going back and forth on that design a bit... who knows where it will end up but it sure is fun! thanks for the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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