We have no plans at this time for an art gallery or art packs for the art used in our products, though we do sometimes release preview art in the blogs.
If it wasn't to much I would pay for a hi-res art pack for each AP myself. I like to print out some of the images and show them during the game and that would be better having a art pack like that.
Ditto.
If it wasn't to much I would pay for a hi-res art pack for each AP myself. I like to print out some of the images and show them during the game and that would be better having a art pack like that.
There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
Hi-Res images of the maps would be very helpful.
When you cut out a room for maptools use and blow it up, it gets fuzzy and pixelated. High res images would make online play easier.
Just my 2cp :)
If it wasn't to much I would pay for a hi-res art pack for each AP myself. I like to print out some of the images and show them during the game and that would be better having a art pack like that.
Ditto Ditto.
There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
I do that now and was just hoping there was an easier method.
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There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
I do that now, would just be nice to have a easier and better way to do it. Enough i would pay for it, as long as it wasn't to much.
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Hi-Res images of the maps would be very helpful.
When you cut out a room for maptools use and blow it up, it gets fuzzy and pixelated. High res images would make online play easier.
Our maps are not generally commissioned at 1":5' scale—they're commissioned at the size we intend to run them. That is to say, if you compared the versions in the PDF to the original, you'd find that the quality difference is minimal (and comes mainly from the JPEG compression used in the PDF).
Understood. I was hoping that the maps benefitted from something like scanning pics at higher DPI, It becomes a larger file but is easier to use.
I dont know all that much about jpeg compression and what goes into building a PDF, so please forgive my ignorance.
Our maps are not generally commissioned at 1":5' scale—they're commissioned at the size we intend to run them. That is to say, if you compared the versions in the PDF to the original, you'd find that the quality difference is minimal (and comes mainly from the JPEG compression used in the PDF).
Makes sense. If you commissioned them at 8.5" x 11" and thereafter had to scale them down there could be critical details that become too small to make out easily.
I do that now, would just be nice to have a easier and better way to do it. Enough i would pay for it, as long as it wasn't to much.There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
Wait, this sounds a million times easier than what I do, which is take a snapshot of a picture, paste it into a pic editor, trim out all the words that I accidentally picked up with it, and save it.
How do you extract all pics from a pdf?
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I do that now, would just be nice to have a easier and better way to do it. Enough i would pay for it, as long as it wasn't to much.There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
Wait, this sounds a million times easier than what I do, which is take a snapshot of a picture, paste it into a pic editor, trim out all the words that I accidentally picked up with it, and save it.
How do you extract all pics from a pdf?
There is programs that let you do that. The better ones are pay ones but there is some free ones too.
There is programs that let you do that. The better ones are pay ones but there is some free ones too.I do that now, would just be nice to have a easier and better way to do it. Enough i would pay for it, as long as it wasn't to much.There's always Plan B: Get the PDF, extract the images with the PDF reader of your choice (some require you to click each picture by itself while others have "extract all pictures" options), and print that. The pictures from the PDF should be good enough for printing and showing.
It's a bit of work, but it's better than nothing.
Wait, this sounds a million times easier than what I do, which is take a snapshot of a picture, paste it into a pic editor, trim out all the words that I accidentally picked up with it, and save it.
How do you extract all pics from a pdf?
You happen to have a name or three for me to Google? This honestly sounds like it would turn a three hour job into ten minutes.
Ah, thank you. I see what you mean now though. No way to get rid of that black stuff around the pic. Easier to do the screen shot > edit pic.
I'll put myself down for a reasonably priced pdf of images similar to the old Dungeon supplements then. Those were fantastic.
Ah, thank you. I see what you mean now though. No way to get rid of that black stuff around the pic. Easier to do the screen shot > edit pic.
I'll put myself down for a reasonably priced pdf of images similar to the old Dungeon supplements then. Those were fantastic.
I deal with that black stuff problem (because of the alpha channel Paizo uses in their images) all the time. I deal with it one of four ways:
1. Copy the image from the PDF and paste it into MS Paint, and use the bucket to fill all the black with white. Sometimes this works really well, other times it doesn't work for beans. For example, this worked perfectly on the four-armed giant from AP #36.
2. Copy the image from the PDF and paste it into Gimp, and once again use the bucket tool, but this time I can use the threshold and fill areas that are within a certain pixel value threshold from the one I fill. This works better than #1 but still can end up looking like junk. If I'm really motivated (or it's for a creature that I intend to use a lot) I'll take the time to clean it up.
3. Take a screenshot and crop out the part I don't want. Sometimes this is easier than #1 and #2; depends on the image and what kind of stuff is around/over the image.
4. Do a Google search for the image and hope it was in a blog or is posted on Deviant Art or something.
I've never found an image extraction tool that works on the PC; every single one I've tried (and I've tried a bunch) always screws up the alpha channel. Darn Mac users.