Is there an easy way within S.S. to draw curved lines and fill in with colors? For instance, I'm looking to simulate a flag in the breeze as a header on my website.

I hope is a simple flag because the only way i can think is (for a french flag) 3 objects with spline function and then grouping them.

Or with tile filling( if you are lucky to center the image inside) instead of a color.

Do check out the Tutorials on shapes and lines here. Probably this section is what you are looking for. Just keep in mind that SS is not a graphic program.

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You can download many flags for free...they even come as animations (gif)
and simulate the wind/breeze moving them...like below:





This one is small and not such a nice quality


Look here for more:

http://www.google.nl/search?hl...=1&oq=flag+animation



Radio

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Whoa, slow down.

I don't want to be a wet blanket however what is on Google images is not available for all to use.

Any image that is present on a website is automatically copyrighted to the creator of that work.

If you grab an image off the web and use it in your website, you are automatically infringing the owners copyright of that work and by so doing commiting an offense.

Just because its royalty free or freely available doesn't mean its free of copyright.

There are plenty of sites on the net that make images, graphics, icons and other net assets available free of copyright.

Do make sure you read the terms of use.
If you contact the owner of the website and ask permission to use an image, you can't guarantee that he or she has the rights to allow that use.

If you want high quality royalty free images that come with permission to use them, try www.sxc.hu There's lots of other resources too although many free icon sites just seem to link to each other endlessly. Do start your google search with 'copyright free.....'

If the owner of the image requires a credit for the image, put it on your legal info page with a link to their website - You'd like to be credited for your work, it also gives them a benefit in google page rank terms.

I don't want to spoil anybody's fun, just to keep you safe.

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Geek, the link that Radio supplied carries no copyright literature at all.

The images are free to download and use for any purpose you want.

By the way, you are putting in some good input of late, and we would all like to refer to you by first name (mine is Terry), my guess is that yours is Kamikaze.

Hi Terry.

Thanks for the nice words. I've benefitted greatly from these forums and try to put a bit back.

I'm actually an Andrew.

I've been building websites for about 15 years in one guise or another and have drifted more toward marketing and business consultancy - helping others to get websites.

I'm the webmaster for a global fortune 500 company in the UK & Irelandand have a design consultancy in my (hahaha) spare time.

I guess my posts will be more related to website management, business design, marketing, low level legal aspects of build and ownership etc as I simply don't have that much to contribute on a pure technical basis. I hope this is complementary to all you super technical people.

I'm happy to review sites from a business point of view and hope it helps.

Did you know that even the song:

"Happy birthday to you"

is copyrighted ?

It was copyrighted somewhere in 18xx
the current owner is Disney Studios.

Just trying to show that you can overdo this copyright stuff
and it never ends.

You could even figure out if the owner of a flag-image/design
would not be the country/state to who it belongs to

But in general i would say that simple graphics such as these flags
are free of rights unless specifically indicated.

Even then there's the issue of public domain.
In simple words that would mean if the rightful owner of an image
publishes it (himself) on the net then he can not expect such image
to be protected (by law) against copying,redistribution...etc

The plain fact that they are available without any watermarks or
other anti-download/copy measures indicate that they are indeed free for use.

In most cases large graphics websites that specifically mention that their
graphics,icons,animations are "free" for download and use can indeed be used as such.

A clear example of what would be illigal is when i would use Virtual Mechanics
their logo on my website pretending if it was mine by changing the name/text:



Its a question of common sense.


Radio

quote:

Its a question of common sense.

Radio

What's that?!!!! Seems to have disappeared in recent times. ;-)

mccifa

radio,

you need to get familiar with the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. This international agreement, recognized by most nations, states in part: Under the Convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in force upon their creation without being asserted or declared. An author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work and to any derivative works, unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them or until the copyright expires. Foreign authors are given the same rights and privileges to copyrighted material as domestic authors in any country that signed the Convention.

An author who allows free use of his artistic work in no way gives up his copyright, nor does this place it into public domain. Indeed, even if a work is released into the public domain, it is still copyrighted work.

Most works now days fall into one of several categories as far as licensing applies: commercial, GNU, BSD, Mozilla, Creative, etc. As Geek stated, you should be aware of the terms of use allowed by the author. That's common sense.

quote:

But in general i would say that simple graphics such as these flags
are free of rights unless specifically indicated.

I'm sorry but this is back to front: Actually its not yours to have unless specifically stated.

It is common sense as you say. If you created a lovely logo for your site, spent hours in Photoshop and Illustrator and got it just right, you'd be really ticked off if I started using it and rightly so. Same deal for the other guy.


How do ~you~ protect the images on your site?

One of the sites I look after is a resource site for a particular pottery www.grayspottery.co.uk and there is a huge investment of time in photography. Looking through the stats I noticed there were a huge amount of visits from a certain auction site. Turns out sellers were linking to my client's images from his site.

If you have a CPanel based website you should be able to enable a feature called 'Hotlink protection' which denies direct access to file types you specify, jpg, gif, bmp etc.

Here is page where you can find lots of Free Photos for your website.