striker
05-09-2005, 08:38 PM
:D New car added Dick Johnson 1988 RS500 Sierra. Opening bonnet, boot doors. Follow the link below. Working on a new site design.
http://diecastmodeltrader.com/gallery3.htm.
A few people have asked how to produce the flash objects. Well! here we go.
You need:
1) digital camera with zoom 3.2 mega pixels will do plus tripod.
2) photography table. Any flat surface will do will need white paper backdrop.
3) lighting setup. halogen lights. For a prefessional setup you will need softboxs (if you got deep pockets).
4) Software. Photoshop or simular. Flash MX.
5) Once that is all setup you will need to take a around 25 to 45 shots depending on the complexity you want. Tiff images are not required. SHQ or HQ will do. Its all about balance between image quality and download size. A lot of people are still on dialup.
6) The images are then cropped and reduced to 30% of original size loaded into flash and there you have it.
There are plenty of places on the web to get more information about the photography side of it and using the software.
Explained here is a very, very, very brief description. From go to woe, as a conservitive guess, probably took me a month or two to set it all up and produce the first object. That without learning the software.
With every thing setup it takes about 4 hours to produce one new object.
As you can see it is not an easy task. ;)
http://diecastmodeltrader.com/gallery3.htm.
A few people have asked how to produce the flash objects. Well! here we go.
You need:
1) digital camera with zoom 3.2 mega pixels will do plus tripod.
2) photography table. Any flat surface will do will need white paper backdrop.
3) lighting setup. halogen lights. For a prefessional setup you will need softboxs (if you got deep pockets).
4) Software. Photoshop or simular. Flash MX.
5) Once that is all setup you will need to take a around 25 to 45 shots depending on the complexity you want. Tiff images are not required. SHQ or HQ will do. Its all about balance between image quality and download size. A lot of people are still on dialup.
6) The images are then cropped and reduced to 30% of original size loaded into flash and there you have it.
There are plenty of places on the web to get more information about the photography side of it and using the software.
Explained here is a very, very, very brief description. From go to woe, as a conservitive guess, probably took me a month or two to set it all up and produce the first object. That without learning the software.
With every thing setup it takes about 4 hours to produce one new object.
As you can see it is not an easy task. ;)