MAKING LINE DRAWING OVERLAYS FOR COINS Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 1, January 4, 2004, Article 15
MAKING LINE DRAWING OVERLAYS FOR COINS
Kavan Ratnatunga writes: "I purchased another computer
Toy for Numismatics:I have written up my notes on how to line draw an ancient
coin using PhotoShop elements and the Graphire3 Tablet
I purchased a week ago. See
http://lakdiva.org/coins/notes/linedraw.htmlA nice way to display images are shown on a page
http://lakdiva.org/coins/ruhuna1/lakshmipbtoken_js.htmlThis allows you to flip between the coin images and line-draw
which helps one to confirm the validity of the line drawing as
you can do using layers in PhotoShop. You Need a JavaScript
Enabled Browser, else see
http://lakdiva.org/coins/ruhuna1/lakshmipbtoken_ol.html."[I encourage everyone to take a look at Kavan's web pages.
The overlay line drawings are a fantastic tool which really help
bring these coins to life. It's a marvelous way for numismatic
authors to point out key features of a coin and is particularly
useful for understanding ancient coins which are worn,
corroded, crudely struck (or all three). -Editor]- 2004-01-04
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