Hi James :)
First thot is to just go buy a stack of Monopoly (tm) replacement money
at the local toy store....
Second thot is to scan a bill then alter it with Corel draw... for U.S.
bills you would do a oval overlay picture over the Dead Presidint :) (and
yes I mispelled it on purpose!)
Note! In the U.S. the Secret Service takes very seriously any
reproduction of bills that are even remotely close to accurate and will
"visit" you if they get even a whisper on the wind about it! We found out
when we (in 1978) replaced Bennie Frenklin with Simon Benson at Benson
Polytechnic High School.... lots of suits appeared the next day to
confiscate lots of our 'work'... and we were only using it as a sail on a
Sailing Ship (Christopher Columbus type) on a cover of a work book!!!
The kicker was we only altered Bennie... replacing him with Simon
Benson (namesake of the school) and left every thing else of the h*un*dr*d
dollor bill intact... and exact reproduction... this did not sit well...
guess people don't look at money that closely :) ...
And no... we used no computer equipment... and only a photo copier and
offset printing and other print shop equipment from the 60's to do this...
imagine the trouble we could get into in this day and age! hehehe
Art "back to SQL projects " Bahrs
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I have a rather odd request that I think just might be answered here
on the list. My daughter is having a party and she has asked me to
make some novelty money for it. I have Corel Draw 12 and I must
say my first attempts at making a banknote are rather pathetic.
Does anyone here have any suggestions as to where I can get
some guidance on how to make a realistic looking money bill using
Corel Draw or similar vector based drawing package?
I thought to use my daughter's cat as the image on the bill, but it still
looks like a photo rather than an engraving. Equally, I do not seem
to have the skill to produce the embellishments and flourishes often
found on a banknote.
There is also the question of paper. I would have this stuff look and
feel as authentic as possible without going to an incredible expense.
I have a HPLJ4 with duplex attachment and while I see no real need
to print in colour I concede that white is not the best choice for the
paper. Insofar as dimensions are concerned, I figure that a width to
height ratio of 5.5" to 2.5" would look about right, yielding six bills per
page.
Any suggestions as to what to use or where to look. The images on
the net are wonderful for ideas, but useless for reproduction. I do
not want this stuff looking or feeling like a cheap photocopy but I
have no intentions of passing bogus money drawn on the Irrational
Bank of Natasha either.
Regards,
Jim
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