"Johan Feyaerts" <joh### [at] nospamhotmailcom> wrote:
>
> Don't think I could have made the animated gif  band logo's with photoshop,
> while it's a piece of cake with pov. Neither the buttons.
> Achieving the same level of detail would be far beyond my photoshop
> knowledge. Pov gives you just that extra degree of control and the ability
> to produce something good looking even if you're not an expert graphics
> designer.
> The header and side blocks were made with HDRI, not so easy to do in
> photoshop either I think.
> Actually the only thing I used photoshop for is to make the background band
> logo image of the pages. I started from a greay image rendered with pov and
> then made a seamless tile of it and changed the color scheme of it with
> Photoshop.
> The buttons were rendered with pov on hi res and then rescaled to the right
> size for the web page with irfanview.
> >
> >

I didn't mean my statement to be criticism of your site, I like the POVRay
elements (particularly the buttons)! And I do agree that POVRay is probably
more flexible overall since you can easily do things that you could only
ever fake in Photoshop/Gimp. Still though, without knowing you'd made those
elements in POVRay I probably wouldn't have guessed a raytracer was used.
Anyway I'm working on something at the moment which will hopefully make it
clearer what I'm trying to get across.

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