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Tue, 10/15/2013 - 9:03pm

Note user I'm putting this topic in the right forum.

I regularly do motorcycle rides in support of Wounded Warriors. The grand tour is The Tour of Honor, www.tourofhonor.com.

I need an icon create to go with the locations. A simple TOH would be ok but a better one using the Tour of Honor wheel would be outstanding.

I have no artistic ability and less computer graphic skills.

Would anyone like to lend a hand>?

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Tue, 10/15/2013 - 11:39pm

Wheel

The wheel presents a couple of complications, since the icon has to be as small as 24x24 if it is going to work on any nuvi (some newer reportedly support larger images, but I'm guessing that you want it to work on any nuvi), and because the wheel is round you can't cleanly use transparency around the outside edge. But here is a simple example of the wheel reduced to a 24x24 256 color bitmap with a white boarder, done using only Irfanview:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/tkhy.png/

Opps, hold on, looks like Imageshack changed it from a BMP to a PNG file. I'll try again.

OK, try this link, same image but should stay a 256 color BMP this time:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87202412/Wheel.bmp

Once reduced to that tiny size it really doesn't look like much, but others who know the wheel logo should recognize it.

Wed, 10/16/2013 - 12:48pm

@Frovingslosh

Frovingslosh wrote:

The wheel presents a couple of complications, since the icon has to be as small as 24x24 if it is going to work on any nuvi (some newer reportedly support larger images...
Once reduced to that tiny size it really doesn't look like much, but others who know the wheel logo should recognize it.

Give yourself more credit. I think it looks pretty good.

Wed, 10/16/2013 - 5:43pm

Sounds pretty simple to me

Frovingslosh wrote:

The wheel presents a couple of complications, since the icon has to be as small as 24x24 if it is going to work on any nuvi (some newer reportedly support larger images, but I'm guessing that you want it to work on any nuvi), and because the wheel is round you can't cleanly use transparency around the outside edge. But here is a simple example of the wheel reduced to a 24x24 256 color bitmap with a white boarder, done using only Irfanview:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/tkhy.png/

Opps, hold on, looks like Imageshack changed it from a BMP to a PNG file. I'll try again.

OK, try this link, same image but should stay a 256 color BMP this time:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87202412/Wheel.bmp

Once reduced to that tiny size it really doesn't look like much, but others who know the wheel logo should recognize it.

Does not sound too hard - I bet even I could do it...

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Mon, 10/28/2013 - 3:53pm

no feedback

I'm rather disappointed to get no feedback at all from Goblinjxs.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 4:43pm

Maybe

Maybe he hasn't been back.

Then again, maybe it was a drive-by solution seeker.

A "Thanks" would be nice though.

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