Starfinder Item Cards

[Kochean]

I am working on making item cards for my game to hand out instead of just listing the items they find.

My question is there a good way to extract the images of gear from the pdf with a white/missing background on them to use on the cards?

[Schoon]

While this doesn't address your question in the slightest, you've got a great idea there.

Item cards would be a great accessory to the game!

[Vic Wertz]

When you copy an object with transparency—technically, an "alpha channel"—from a PDF and paste it into another application, the image is often converted to a rectangular image with a solid background. (Some apps and OSs fill the transparent areas with black and others fill it with white.)

If you experiment with different software for extracting and for image manipulation, you should eventually find a setup that will preserve the alpha channel along the way. (This is not a thing I do regularly, so I can't tell you what a good working combo is.)

[Kochean]

Schoon wrote:

While this doesn't address your question in the slightest, you've got a great idea there.

Item cards would be a great accessory to the game!

So far the major slow down for me is finding images for the cards. But it is nice to have the gear card ready when they loot an area and you throw down a few cards with all the stats on them so they don't have to root through the book.

Vic Wertz wrote:

*Technical stuff*

I will have to experiment then. Thanks for the input.

[Necrodemus]

I'm doing the same thing, and I basically just rip images from pinterest of cool looking gear. As long as it's for personal use, you won't have any problems.

[Kochean]

Necrodemus wrote:

I'm doing the same thing, and I basically just rip images from pinterest of cool looking gear. As long as it's for personal use, you won't have any problems.

So far that is what I have been doing.

[Schoon]

Not to hijack the thread, but it occurs to me that NPC cards would be pretty cool as well!

[McBugman]

I just came to this message board to inquire and request Paizo consideration for item cards, great to see like minded people!

Before I start making my own, would you be willing to share the ones you made Kochean?

[Kochean]

McBugman wrote:

I just came to this message board to inquire and request Paizo consideration for item cards, great to see like minded people!

Before I start making my own, would you be willing to share the ones you made Kochean?

I suppose I could, I did not get too far into it though. I got busy at work and my home computer is starting to sputter out.

let me get them collected and packed up and I will figure out how to link them here.

[ghostunderasheet]

I been thinking of doing this as well. Might as well do it for the hard to track medical items as well. Just guna doodle needles and bandades on blank card stalk.