CompuServe Messages

I just had to throw this in … once in a while you DO get a reward from heaven. A while back, a customer handed us the most complicatedly insane (or maybe it was insanely complicated) drawing … and wanted it traced into some slides we were doing for him. I figured it might take weeks to get the settings right for this one, with another week just for the vector edits, so I could colorize the thing. Figured it would just be simpler in the long run to do the thing in Photoshop. But then I figured "What the heck. I'll just throw it through Corel Trace, if only for the fun of watching it choke." Took my best first guess at the settings, and got a perfect trace the first time. I picked my tongue off the floor and stuck it back in my mouth then hopped into Corel to see what a mess the edits would be (lots of neg/pos space problems implicit in this particular drawing.) The saliva marks on the floor got to be a more serious problem when it turned out that, apart from picking all the little objects and getting the colors right, I had to do absolutely no editing at all. Zilch. Some days you get the elevator. Steve