User talk:VRB97

Tube map mock-up
Welcome to Wikipedia.

Thanks for your email. I'm glad that you appreciated the work that went into File:Northern_Heights_Map_Mockup.png, but I don't think this answer is going to help you very much.

The original creator of this file, and most of the others like it, was User:McDRye. Unfortunately, he hasn't edited since August 2010 and I don't know how he created them originally. All of the edits I made to this file and the others that I modified or created were made by laboriously editing the .png file. I cut and pasted small clips of the bitmaps with the necessary bits and pieces of lines together and the individual letters were assembled into groups to make the station names. These were pulled together in a bitmap editor and the individual pixels were adjusted to ensure that the anti-aliasing looked correct. At the time I think I used Paint Shop Pro, but I use GIMP for bitmap editing these days as it is free.

If you were creating a new section of a mock-up from scratch you would probably be on the right track in using Adobe Illustrator to create the work in vector format first, but if you are editing a bit mapped version of the PDF from the TfL website that sounds like a complex exercise to blind bitmap and vector components together. I'm no expert on this, but I would probably stick with editing the bitmap version in a bitmap editor.

Good Luck.--DavidCane (talk) 21:23, 10 May 2012 (UTC)