in my line of business I see people using drawing software to make graphics, and taking longer to make a worse result than they would get by hand drawing. I would strongly recommend that where possible you make your initial field sketches of outcrops on paper, use a cheap disposable pigment pen to ink them in, then scan them as a black-and-white image, and only add a box outline, the labels and words digitally. Even if you use powerpoint (yuk!), you can get great looking results this way, and putting semitransparent color or greyscale blobs over the top of a scanned sketch gives a professional appearance.
Graphics technology is improving but, unless you are a trained graphic artist, and you have a high quality, touch sensitive tablet, you will probably waste time and get a worse result by going straight to digital drawing. The day will come when this isn't the case but we are not there yet.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:27 AM
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Subject: Good softwares for drawing geological maps and outcrop/texture sketches? (Toshi Shimamoto)
Dear list subscribers
6 April 2011
This is Toshi Shimamoto, now from Beijing.
Would anyone give me information on softwares useful for drawing
geological maps and outcrop/texture sketches? Not super-expensive, easy
to use and above all having many good patterns in black and white
suitable for showing formation, strata or any units you want to
classify. I am involved with drilling into Longmenshan fault system that
caused the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
Please note that my new e-mail address and affiliation is given below. I
retired from Hiroshima University one year ago and am now enjoying a new
research opportunity in Beijing with a new low to high-velocity machine
(plate to seismic velocities!).
(Sorry for sending personal messages).
Best regards,
Toshi
(My new e-mail address is given at the end.)
Toshihiko Shimamoto
State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics
Institute of Geology
China Earthquake Administration
P. O. Box 9803
Beijing 100029, China
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