Companies Planning To Do M&m Superlink - Please Read This

[lmpjr007]

Hello, this is Louis Porter Jr. of Louis Porter Jr. Design. We have created an online PDF art resource called Image Portfolio. The easiest way to explain it would be it is "clip art" or "OGL art" for RPG companies to use for their products. We are planning to put out a super hero edition of Image Portfolio that RPG gaming companies can use. The have discovered an artist by the name of Tony Perna and I have placed up a link of the sample of artwork at this link:

www.lpjdesign.com/DevilsWorkshop/TonyPerna.html

Looking at Mr. Perna work I am sure you can see that we only plan to put out high quality work with our Image Portfolio line. If you have any other question please feel free to contact me at your earliest opportunity.

 

[JoeGKushner]

That art looks great but I think as far as official company use, you may not see a lot.

Why?

It's a one trick pony. As a normal reader, I'd probably get more use out of this than a publisher.

Now if you're including the original files or a editable format like illustrator or photoshop, I can see more professional use out of this product as the material is more mutable.

I could be wrong though. Still, when I look on the bookshelves, I've only seen one company that used the clip art from Elmore in print. Even the PDF files that Phil used to do with the Elmore art have been replaced.

 

[lmpjr007]

That art looks great but I think as far as official company use, you may not see a lot.

Why?

It's a one trick pony. As a normal reader, I'd probably get more use out of this than a publisher.

Now if you're including the original files or a editable format like illustrator or photoshop, I can see more professional use out of this product as the material is more mutable.

I could be wrong though. Still, when I look on the bookshelves, I've only seen one company that used the clip art from Elmore in print. Even the PDF files that Phil used to do with the Elmore art have been replaced.

Let me see if I can respond to your questions one at a time. I will be answering these questions in the point of view of being a publisher, not as a consumer.

First off, "The One Trick Pony" concept would be what all art is if you used it only once. Most company know how expensive art is (roughly $100 a full page) and will try to re-use some of their pieces more than once if they can. If you look at the original Deadlands Core book and their revised Core book you will some pieces of art have been used in both of the books. If a company wanted to use an image as a background image, that they will place another image on top of it, they should have not have to pay out $100 a page to do so. Would you rather pay $100 for a background piece that may or may not even bee seen or 25 cents for that piece?

Second, Adobe Acrobat is the most versatile form for Adobe products. A PDF is considered to a vector based copy of an image, meaning that the image was created by a mathematic formula that is read by Acrobat, Photoshop or Illustrator. When you zoom up on a PDF, there is no pixelation of the image. If Photoshop created the images, it would be a pixel-based image and the more you zoom in the more it breaks up in to pixels. If you enlarge a pixel-based image, by double it size for example, in Photoshop the program will ad pixels by making a sampling of the other pixels around it. This can cause images to become blurry when you do this. With Vector Based images like PDF and Illustrator, this will not happen due to the computation to make the art being based on math and not the image resolution.

Third and most importantly, this type of product is best used for magazine publishers who need lots of art while at the same time keeping the cost for art down. We want people to same money by using our product.