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Originally Posted by oldtimers
Good Morning to everyone. Maybe someone could help me. I like the 1951-1952 Bowman look. Is their a Program or way to do the players now like the 51-52 style? ALSO LOOKING FOR SOME PICS OF SIBBY SISTI AND WALLY WESTLAKE. THANKS FOR ANY HELP
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I'm working on putting together a comprehensive virtual set of 1978 Topps. To create the cards, I simply used the Microsoft Paint program. There's probably something more sophisticated out there, but Paint seems to do the trick pretty well - it should work very well for you as the 1951 and 1952 Bowman sets are pretty square. It might not work on sets with more elaborate designs (think 1960, 1962, 1972, or 1980 Topps). As it is, with the 1978 set, I still am not where I want to be with the look of the team name, but I think I've finally managed to produce good looking position designators/baseballs.
Anyway, it's as simple as cutting out an appropriate-sized portion of the image you're working with and placing it in an existing card template - for me, I use the images available at the Baseball Card Cyber Museum (
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As for the image itself, I use the Corel Paintshop Pro program if I need to eliminate flaws on the photo. But for the most part, the Paint program works well on its own. Good luck with your efforts! Here are a couple of examples of cards created using just the Paint program (thanks goes to Merkle of this community for the McGilberry image):