I am trying to knock up a sign with grass around its base to go on a white
background.

Here is what I've done so far:
http://www.nrkn.com/sign/

The sign was easy, used vectors, gradient and texture fills.  I am quite
happy with it.

I then found a picture of a tree with grass around it to use as a base for
the grass around the bottom of the sign.

So far so good.

I'm just struggling with getting the grass to sit on top of the white
background and look natural (or even reasonable).  I pretty much stuck the
grass both under and over the sign, then used the eraser to get rid of all
of it except for a patch around the sign base.  I then used the push tool to
get rid of the smooth edges from the eraser and tried to introduce a little
randomness.

I'm not happy with the result at all.

Any ideas on how I could go about doing this?

TIA!

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:34:46 +1200, "Nik Coughin"
<nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> wrote:

>I am trying to knock up a sign with grass around its base to go on a white
>background.
>
>Here is what I've done so far:
>http://www.nrkn.com/sign/
>
>The sign was easy, used vectors, gradient and texture fills.  I am quite
>happy with it.
>
>I then found a picture of a tree with grass around it to use as a base for
>the grass around the bottom of the sign.
>
>So far so good.
>
>I'm just struggling with getting the grass to sit on top of the white
>background and look natural (or even reasonable).  I pretty much stuck the
>grass both under and over the sign, then used the eraser to get rid of all
>of it except for a patch around the sign base.  I then used the push tool t
o
>get rid of the smooth edges from the eraser and tried to introduce a little
>randomness.
>
>I'm not happy with the result at all.
>
>Any ideas on how I could go about doing this?
>
>TIA!




There are grass Tubes in some psp proggies, find them there or Google
for d/l, tubes work well in that situation.

Nik Coughin wrote:

> "Come to think of it, there are already a million
> monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
> is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" - Blair Houghton

Ah, but one must wait one million years.
Patience, Grasshopper, patience.

Nik Coughin wrote:
>
> I am trying to knock up a sign with grass around its base to go on a white
> background.
>
> Here is what I've done so far:
> http://www.nrkn.com/sign/
>
> The sign was easy, used vectors, gradient and texture fills.  I am quite
> happy with it.
>
> I then found a picture of a tree with grass around it to use as a base for
> the grass around the bottom of the sign.
>
> So far so good.
>
> I'm just struggling with getting the grass to sit on top of the white
> background and look natural (or even reasonable).  I pretty much stuck the
> grass both under and over the sign, then used the eraser to get rid of all
> of it except for a patch around the sign base.  I then used the push tool 
to
> get rid of the smooth edges from the eraser and tried to introduce a littl
e
> randomness.
>
> I'm not happy with the result at all.

Try using the Deform tool on the grass to give it the same
perspective as the sign has.

> Any ideas on how I could go about doing this?
>
> TIA!
>
> --
> "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
> typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" - Blair Houghton
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>  http://www.nrkn.com/
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