Any ideas about making something like this?

[Carrie]

I want to recreat an old-fashioned looking railroad ticket. Have a 4 year
old grandson who is train crazy, and I thought it would be cute for his
wall.

Looked all over online and found party invitations for sale that are like I
want (not sure what I'd put on them now) Since he loves trains and railroad
stuff, I have been thinking of collecting train pictures from online,
printing them out and putting them together (on cardstock or cover stock)
with a spiral binder into a book (just for him) The ticket could have some
railroad stuff on it, and his name and be the cover of the book.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/starchild_dreams/tickettrain1.jpg

I wasn't sure what to use for a program (I'm in the early stages of
learning Illustrator, but don't know enough about it to try and duplicate
something with it) but settled on Publisher (2000), because of making the
rectangles and boxes and moving things around to fit.

First thing, I can't get old looking colors like that. I can get bright
yellow and grey. Even that isn't so bad but do any of the font addicts here
know what font that is, or similar? I tried round Arial MT for one, but
it's too crisp and bright looking. The colors are too bright, too. It
doesn't have that soft look like old paper. The website that has this ticket
(party invitation) on it, also has them in other colors, but they all have a
soft, faded look.

I have a lot of fonts, I'm always finding them and saving them, but don't
seem to have one that looks like old ticket print.

I like to use whatever ideas come to me to learn. A challenge

Thanks,
Carrie

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Several years ago I used Publisher to create a fake steamship ticket. I
printed it on antique gold paper/ That will muddy your colors somewhat.

As for fonts - there are bazillions of free fonts available. Google till you
find a site. Try searching for "antique fonts" or something like that.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[S S]

Dont know if this would work but I would use photoshop (or whatever you use)
eyedropper tool thing to get the RGB of the colour and see if that
replicates it.I have used this method in the past and been quite good for
me.

 

[S S]

I gave this a try in photoshop and you can see the result in the link below,
it was just a quick try at it...hope it helps.

http://i3.tinypic.com/2a0gwhd.jpg

 

[Morisot]

Hi, Carrie -

From your example, maybe fonts or in the font families like:

Abadi (Condensed)
Franklin
Gill

Subway London (clean, with a slight curve -- and a "rail" name!)


About the colors:

When you go into fill or font colors click on "more colors" and then "all
colors" , Point any where on the color window and also use the slider to the
right. (But what you see on-screen isn't always what you get when you print.)
Experiment.

Sounds like you are having fun!


M.

 

[Carrie]

Several years ago I used Publisher to create a fake steamship ticket. I
printed it on antique gold paper/ That will muddy your colors somewhat.

As for fonts - there are bazillions of free fonts available. Google till
you find a site. Try searching for "antique fonts" or something like that.

yes, it might be the paper it's printed on too.

As to finding free fonts and bazillions- gazillions of them! I know, I
spend hours looking at them and downloading ones I like and then hardly ever
(if ever) use.

But, I haven't tried the antique- old looking search.

I have one, or two that are "old crappy typewriter" font. (brings back
memories of the old crabby typewriter I used to have)

~ Carrie

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

I want to recreat an old-fashioned looking railroad ticket. Have a 4
year old grandson who is train crazy, and I thought it would be cute for
his wall.

Looked all over online and found party invitations for sale that are like
I want (not sure what I'd put on them now) Since he loves trains and
railroad stuff, I have been thinking of collecting train pictures from
online, printing them out and putting them together (on cardstock or
cover stock) with a spiral binder into a book (just for him) The ticket
could have some railroad stuff on it, and his name and be the cover of
the book.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/starchild_dreams/tickettrain1.jpg

I wasn't sure what to use for a program (I'm in the early stages of
learning Illustrator, but don't know enough about it to try and duplicate
something with it) but settled on Publisher (2000), because of making the
rectangles and boxes and moving things around to fit.

First thing, I can't get old looking colors like that. I can get bright
yellow and grey. Even that isn't so bad but do any of the font addicts
here know what font that is, or similar? I tried round Arial MT for one,
but it's too crisp and bright looking. The colors are too bright, too. It
doesn't have that soft look like old paper. The website that has this
ticket (party invitation) on it, also has them in other colors, but they
all have a soft, faded look.

I have a lot of fonts, I'm always finding them and saving them, but
don't seem to have one that looks like old ticket print.

I like to use whatever ideas come to me to learn. A challenge

Thanks,
Carrie

 

[Carrie]

Cover the entire wall?? or just one to stick on the wall?

not cover the engire wall, but like a picture. Though I have been
experimenting lately with the "poster" settings in my printer (and
Illustrator)

Can't find a way of gluing or taping the pieces together without it
showing. Maybe if it's put under plastic or something. (I know, another
topic)

This is a different project

I know, but maybe a guide to go by. I started setting it up in
Publisher, with squares and colors in them and Ariel wide MT font. Looks too
bright and "new".

You have both Illustrator and Pub2000... cool You can use either or
both to create your ticket.

Catch is, I know little or nothing about Illustrator, I have books
and tutorials I am doing as I have time. So, making something like a project
in it, at this point, would be time consuming. With Publisher, I'm more
familiar with it, and can do more without figuring so much out (and I can
always ask here)

Any chance you can use those ideas and make something original that your
grandson would then know that grannie made "just for him!" ??

Of course, he isn't seeing the old ticket (invitation) pictures I'm
going with. In a way it's some that I want to do it as a project, to learn
from. Like a challenge. This kid is almost 4 and loves trains with a
passion. He watched videos and tv shows and has an electric train. He'll
talk to you about it like if one train is a commuter train or passinger
train and what kind of engine, etc it has. He wants train pictures now
"without a face" (kid's tv show Thomas the Train has a face on it) He must
have memories from a past lifetime!

fonts is good, useless fonts ain't so nice )

No kidding (LOL) I tend to be a fontaholic and have spells of
looking for them, and collecting them and then have to go over them all to
find something, and usually tend to use the same basic ones. I like
"tabitha" for handwriting and found one "Happy" that has occasional uses
like writing Happy Birthday and putting greetings on a card.

With setting up and printing in Publisher most of what's used is more
simple and basic (I think, and have read this, too) But, I still collect
and save fonts for "you never know" (LOL)

Seems like there must be a program or something you can type a font in
and it tells you the name of it?

Thanks for the feedback

~ Carrie

 

[Carrie]

Dont know if this would work but I would use photoshop (or whatever you
use) eyedropper tool thing to get the RGB of the colour and see if that
replicates it.I have used this method in the past and been quite good for
me.

This is a great idea. I could then write down the color numbers and
transfer them to the program I'm using.

I've done this before, with something I've had open in a photo program.

Just didn't think of it with this

~ Carrie

 

[Carrie]

Hi, Carrie -

From your example, maybe fonts or in the font families like:

Abadi (Condensed)
Franklin
Gill

Subway London (clean, with a slight curve -- and a "rail" name!)


About the colors:

When you go into fill or font colors click on "more colors" and then "all
colors" , Point any where on the color window and also use the slider to
the
right. (But what you see on-screen isn't always what you get when you
print.)
Experiment.

Sounds like you are having fun!

Thanks!

I am having fun, even though I'm telling myself I'm learning and preparing
to do possible jobs at some point.

We're not supposed to enjoy what we do for a job

I love this stuff! Not enough time in the day. And I thought at one time,
when I was a grandma (greatgrandma) I would be sitting in a rocker, knitting
or reading and baking cookies? (LOL)

Computers and art and me....

~ Carrie

 

[Carrie]

I gave this a try in photoshop and you can see the result in the link
below, it was just a quick try at it...hope it helps.

http://i3.tinypic.com/2a0gwhd.jpg

Those colors are perfect and I have some font names to look for now, too.

I've found it's sometimes (usually) easier to ask people who know, for
suggestions, before I just jump in and start trying to do something new.

~ Carrie

 

[DavidF]

Google for Nattyware Pixie. A great little color picker tool compliments of
Mary Sauer.

DavidF

 

[Carrie]

I made the ticket and it came out similiar enough to the one I was going
by to look good

I ended up using Photoshop to change the colors in the backgrounds (using
the color match) and then Flash MX (after trying various other programs) to
put the text on.

I like the way it can be moved around, stretched, etc. Though I'm really a
newbie (still) with Flash, I've gotten familiar with the tools and the
graphics part of it.

The font I used, which looked similar to the ticket printing when I
stretched and squashed it a bit is Emementary Heavy SF (something I had
picked up along the way at some time)

I tried printing it on draft setting to make it look older but it wasn't
clear to read.

There is a vertical space on the right side of the ticket that (on mine)
is currently blank and I'm thinking of finding a little picture of a train
(which would be long and narrow) and putting it on it (sideways) I know I
can do this with Publisher.

Anyway, I didn't use publisher all that much, like I had thought when I
started, but wanted to give a report about how I did it.

I'd show a picture of it, but I put grandson's name and some personal
info on it. It basically looks like the one I used as a model.

~ Carrie

 

[S S]

If you want to show a picture of it then copy it and then blur out the info
you dont want made public.