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Old 03-03-2015, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rob View Post
ArmySgt., How did you do that graphic with the Google Earth overlaid onto the AutoNav sheet? That is so cool. I have some knowledge of using computers but that beats the dickens out of my skill!
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I'm assuming he used Photoshop, although I am more of a GNU man myself...
Microsoft Power Point.

I took a screen shot of the Google Earth Image (print screen button on your keyboard). I pasted that into MS Picture Manager so I could convert the image from a bitmap (.bmp) to both .jpg and .png files; so I could decide which I like better.

I pasted that into MS Power Point. Select the image and the "pictures tab" appears on the tool bar. I used "Sharpen" to remove the haziness, and changed "Contrast" to lighten the picture and make some more difference between forests and roads.

Then "Pictures" has a select of digital frames. So I chose a round frame and resized the photo to fit a Autonav circular map image.

The license has run out on my edition on Photoshop but, I haven't really learned much about how to use it on my own.

I have a working copy of Image Ready but, to many tools and I don't get far with it really.

I may take photoshop at my local community college just because I can see the usefulness as an RPG gamer to make really great visual aids.

Last edited by ArmySGT.; 03-03-2015 at 04:13 PM.
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