Paint Shop Pro support - Can PSP "measure"?

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Can PSP "measure"?

43fan

2005-11-15, 7:30 pm

Where I work, we make "footprints" of tires. Currently, we hand draw points
and lines on the footprint to show a measuring point. We then take physical
measurements of the distances between those points and hand write them on
the footprint. I then scan it and this is sent to customers.

I'd like to do this digitally if at all possible, and as automated as
possible as well.

If you can picture the "tread" of the tire in this example, here's what I
mean:
x x
| |
| |
| |
|____ 4.1" ____|

So, PSP would have to recognize where a point was and what two points go
together(there are up to 10 points marked across the tire), draw lines down
from each, and then "measure" the distance between them. If it can do it at
all, I'd think that giving the measurement between two of the points(maybe
mark the outside edges as well) would be a starting number that it could
work from then?

Thanks!
Shawn

Trev

2005-11-15, 7:30 pm

"43fan" <sleap@pennswoods.net> wrote in message
news:kqOdnZ2SB6OPaOTeRVn-pA@hereintown.net...
> Where I work, we make "footprints" of tires. Currently, we hand draw
> points
> and lines on the footprint to show a measuring point. We then take
> physical
> measurements of the distances between those points and hand write them on
> the footprint. I then scan it and this is sent to customers.
>
> I'd like to do this digitally if at all possible, and as automated as
> possible as well.
>
> If you can picture the "tread" of the tire in this example, here's what I
> mean:
> x x
> | |
> | |
> | |
> |____ 4.1" ____|
>
> So, PSP would have to recognize where a point was and what two points go
> together(there are up to 10 points marked across the tire), draw lines
> down
> from each, and then "measure" the distance between them. If it can do it
> at
> all, I'd think that giving the measurement between two of the points(maybe
> mark the outside edges as well) would be a starting number that it could
> work from then?
>
> Thanks!
> Shawn
>
>
Set the images ppi to 100ppi then use grid or rules and guides in pixels
each 100 being I inch.
a screen cap of the ruler cropped and pasted as a layer can be dragged into
a position to indicate size also

Fred Hiltz

2005-11-15, 7:30 pm

43fan wrote:
> ... We ... take physical measurements of the
> distances between those points and hand write them on the
> footprint. I then scan it and this is sent to customers.
>
> I'd like to do this digitally if at all possible, and as
> automated as possible as well.
[snip details]

PSP is a good image editor, but it has no features for image
analysis, that is, scene recognition. It is not going to recognize
the salient points.

If you click on those points, PSP can measure the distances between
them in pixels. Then, as Trev wrote, you need to set the image's
pixels per inch resolution to get the distances in inches.

In addition to the grid and guides, which measure horizontally or
vertically, there is a script that measures a single diagonal
distance, that is, the distance between two mouse clicks. That might
be useful in itself or as a starting point for more complex special
measurements. If you want that script, please contact me by email or
post a note at the Corel PSP X newsgroup where I can attach it to a
reply.

Most of the PSP action is on the Corel news server now.
http://tinyurl.com/2pt9o has the URLs and descriptions.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

Dave Symes

2005-11-15, 7:30 pm

In article <kqOdnZ2SB6OPaOTeRVn-pA@hereintown.net>,
43fan <sleap@pennswoods.net> wrote:
> Where I work, we make "footprints" of tires. Currently, we hand draw
> points and lines on the footprint to show a measuring point. We then
> take physical measurements of the distances between those points and
> hand write them on the footprint. I then scan it and this is sent to
> customers.

> I'd like to do this digitally if at all possible, and as automated as
> possible as well.

> If you can picture the "tread" of the tire in this example, here's what
> I mean: x x
> | |
> | |
> | |
> |____ 4.1" ____|

> So, PSP would have to recognize where a point was and what two points go
> together(there are up to 10 points marked across the tire), draw lines
> down from each, and then "measure" the distance between them. If it can
> do it at all, I'd think that giving the measurement between two of the
> points(maybe mark the outside edges as well) would be a starting number
> that it could work from then?

> Thanks!
> Shawn

Interesting if it could do it, but I would have though a CAD application
would be far more suitable for the job.

Cheers
Dave S

--

Robert Stewart

2005-11-16, 6:48 pm

AutoCAD or a similar CAD program would make much better sense; in my
opinion.

"Dave Symes" <dfs@ukgateway.net> wrote in message
news:4dca51ceb9dfs@ukgateway.net...
> In article <kqOdnZ2SB6OPaOTeRVn-pA@hereintown.net>,
> 43fan <sleap@pennswoods.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Interesting if it could do it, but I would have though a CAD application
> would be far more suitable for the job.
>
> Cheers
> Dave S
>
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