Wiki article on SignWriting

[Stuart Thiessen]

Gimp is an open source equivalent of Photoshop. It is an excellent  
program that can be downloaded for free.

Thanks,

Stuart

On May 22, 2007, at 18:14, Cherie Wren wrote:

> OK, I have no idea what Gimp is...  I took the photos I had and  
> traced them into ... not exactly line drawings, but simpler than  
> photos...  I have a list of about 7 handshapes that I don't have  
> pictures of, I will work on that next...  but here is the first batch.
>
> cherie
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Stuart Thiessen <sw at passitonservices.org>
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:54:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Wiki article on SignWriting
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> I think this is an excellent type of resource. I think it will help  
> many people jump between the hand and the symbol.
>
> My thoughts (perhaps common sense but worth mentioning maybe):
>
> 1) Make sure the palm facing and the handshape symbol are  
> identical. I didn't have time this morning to really view all the  
> handshapes to check this, but I was impressed by it. :)
>
> 2) I think line drawings are better because there is much less  
> peripheral information to distract the viewer (jewelry, watches,  
> clothes, scratches, fingernails, etc.) I do have a document I wrote  
> up on how to use Gimp to do some very basic linedrawing work. It  
> isn't perfect like an illustration, but if you give yourself a good  
> background, it should work pretty well for this purpose. I could  
> email that to you, Cherie, if you want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On May 21, 2007, at 9:41, CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
>
>>
>> I have photos of all the manual alphabet handshapes, and some  
>> classifiers...  Do you think line drawings would be easier, or  
>> photos?
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>> CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
>> > This is the picture I was thinking of, but its using the stokoe
>> > handshapes from this picture    Which I still have no idea where it
>> > came form.  So although I think they would be great information for
>> > the SW article, I have no way to determine the license for the
>> > picture of Stokoe's handshapes.
>>
>> This is a wonderful chart, Cherie!
>>
>> I have never seen this before that I remember...but I like it!!
>>
>> I can send you the illustrations that we own the copyrights to, and
>> you could replace the illustrations one by one...If you have time to
>> do that, tell me, and I will start sending them to you...I may not
>> have all of them, but you could always take photos of your own hands
>> too...I have some hand photos as well, of my nephew's hands...
>>
>> Once the illustrations are replaced, then I hope when you post it,
>> that you will give it the most open and free license
>> possible...copyright free....I want everyone to use SignWriting, and
>> diagrams related to it, freely with no restrictions...
>>
>> I feel frustrated when people think a writing system would be
>> restricted from use...nothing can be farther from the truth...
>>
>> We can place this new chart on our SignWriting site as well as
>> Wikipedia...I know it will be useful to people, as it was to you ....
>>
>> Many thanks for all you are doing, Cherie...
>>
>> Val ;-)
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>> <SW-and-stokoe-smaller.png>
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