I've been bugging this community several times lately with specific requests, while I was not able t o give exact details about the subject.

I was working on a product brochure of a new product, which is now released, so anyone who is interested can have a look at the brochure, which is made using Inkscape.

The brochure is built out of 4 different SVG drawings. Photo editing was done in Photoshop and Gimp. All the rest is done in Inkscape.
The four SVG's were saved as pdf and the four PDF's were combined to one large PDF using PDF Split And Merge.

The product brochure for our new PC oscilloscope can be found here

If you don't mind my asking out of curiosity, what did you use Photoshop for that Gimp could not do? Or was it just an issue of you being more comfortable with certain features of Photoshop?

I used photoshop to "cut" the object (the instrument) out of the background of the photograph. No doubt that Gimp can do that as well, but I'm far more familiar with that functionality in Photoshop.

The motion blur that can be seen on the front page was done in Gimp.

Oh so that is the final product. Very nice.

ErikTiePie wrote:I used photoshop to "cut" the object (the instrument) out of the background of the photograph. No doubt that Gimp can do that as well, but I'm far more familiar with that functionality in Photoshop.

The motion blur that can be seen on the front page was done in Gimp.

Even Photoshop elements magic wand is orders of magnitude better than gimps! Wait a minute you cut the image out. Your supposed to spend weeks making the box in inkscape -- adjusting the blurs and fretting over inkscape only have linear and elliptical gradients.

Recently finished another new product brochure, which can be found here.

This one is again made in Inkscape, 4 separate documents, glued together with PDF Split and Merge.

Again, used PhotoShop to extract the photographed items from their backgrounds.


Additionally, many of the drawings in the Measurement Basics articles in the classroom section of our company website (www.tiepie.nl) are drawn in Inkscape.

You can mask bitmap in InkScape.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/Inkscape/ClipAndMask

hjalle wrote:You can mask bitmap in InkScape.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/Inkscape/ClipAndMask

True, but as EarlyBlake already mentioned:

EarlyBlake wrote:Wait a minute you cut the image out. Your supposed to spend weeks making the box in inkscape -- adjusting the blurs and fretting over inkscape only have linear and elliptical gradients.

I use Inkscape not because it's Inkscape, but because it allows me to create the things I want, pretty fast in an intuitive way. If however certain sub tasks can be done much more efficient in another application, I will choose the other application to perform that part of the assignment.