The Basics.
May 8, 2011 13:02:38 GMT -7
Post by Logi Shimizu on May 8, 2011 13:02:38 GMT -7
Original Post by Tama, modified by Logi
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•Newbs Of GFX Section•
†JPG, GIF, PNG†About & Uses†
∞Gimp Section∞
•Newbs Of GFX Section•
†JPG, GIF, PNG†About & Uses†
∞Gimp Section∞
•Newbs Of GFX Section•
First things first. Font.
Font- Advice: Make it simple, pleasent, nice. Not "Oh its linkin park font!" No, thats just..no. I tryed it, it never works with about 100% of the sigs (that dont suck) iv seen. Stick with something like Arial, or Century Gothic. Something Clean and simple, you can always use effects on it.
But if you rather not heed my advice, or you doing a graphic arts project that isnt a sig here is a link for moar fonts; DaFont
Background: Dont make it boring, plain and/or dull. Smudge, blur, spatter, etc. Make it as busy as you want, just make sure there is flow and its not graphical vomit.
Stock: Not to big, not to small. Some sigs require a stock with no action going on, some with alot, and some that rest in the middle. You want to find a clean cut render...'cause it makes your life easier.
Types of stocks: Render-Image with no background
stock- Image with the background
Stock: i162.photobucket.com/albums/t249/housam_666/Stocks/Alisurfersstockpack65.jpg
Render: i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/superhotlight/DBZGOKU2.png
Where to get them:
Here
Planet Renders - Best one to use
Anime Render
GFX: Graphics. aka what your doing atm
AKA:Also Known As
ATM: At the moment
lol im jk: Lol im just kidding
Brushes: Uhm....well they're what you use to erase, smudge, or paint...with. The type of brush determines the shape of the smudge, erase mark, etc.
Brusheezy
Sig: See Signature
Signature: A type of GFX (usually at the bottom of someone's post) . A lot of GFX'ers focus on this type of GFX. The dimensions can be as small as very small and as big as holy f**k**g hell thats big. Sig sizes I recommend (W x H): 400x150, 350x100,300x100, 380x130, 370x170. You can choose your own. Remember always keep sigs within site rules
Background-The back most area of the sig. Like for short, the part that isnt the render and is the first layer you used that is the main layer.
Bg: An abbreviation of Background.
Border: The design, shape, line, etc. that goes around the edge of your sig.
CC: Constructive Criticism
"lol real cool"
Does not help anyone people. You either give useful CC to a person or just don't post at all.
Also don't just read what somebody else posted and then just reword it and say the same thing, that's even more annoying.
Also your particular interest or distaste in certain topics shouldn't sway your opinion about a piece.
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†JPG, GIF, PNG†About & Uses†
Ok so i took this from an old site i went too just to help out a little description of uses of these.
To clarify, you should only use a GIF when you are doing an animation, or saving something that only has a few colors, not a range. For example, gif would work on an NES screen shot. GIF will suck on anything that has a gradient like effect in it.
Examples of what to use a GIF on.
JPG is the standard, use it for anything that does not have transparencies in it. A good thing to use JPG on is the typical basic sig,
Examples
PNG is a newer format, and allows for transparencies, but at much higher quality than GIF. Firefox supports it, and I would imagine IE7 supports PNG format as well.
Examples
Quick run down
GIF
Pros: Small file size for stills, animation, transparency
Cons: Pixelation, limited range of colors, lower quality for pictures
JPG
Pros: Widely used, good compression, range of quality
Cons: No animation, no transparency
PNG
Pros: High quality, good compression, transparency
Cons: Not as widely used, some support issues, no animation
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∞Gimp Section∞
This is for the people who can not download a full version of photoshop or have the money or time to get it. This is a simple, free, and easy way to get a GFX type of thing. Vel said that "You will be better with photoshop indefinitely", but gimp is an exact replica of photoshop because I have used photoshop and gimp and they are pretty much the same. Gimp has some other added features that are hard to explain but with Gimp you are able to create good signatures like these.
Link to gimp: gimp.org/
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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
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Features and Capabilities:
* Painting
o Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
o Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
o Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
o Supports custom brushes and patterns
* System
o Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
o Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
* Advanced Manipulation
o Full alpha channel support
o Layers and channels
o Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
o Editable text layers
o Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
o Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
o Foreground extraction tool
o Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
o Transformable paths, transformable selections.
o Quickmask to paint a selection.
* Extensible
o A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
o Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
o Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
o Over 100 plug-ins already available
* Animation
o Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
o MNG support
o Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
* File Handling
o File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
o Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
o SVG path import/export
* Much, much more!
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Tutorials and Help:
gimp.org/tutorials/
www.gimp-tutorials.com/
gimp-tutorials.net/
tutorialblog.org/gimp-tutorials/
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I found Gimp, when i used it before, to be very helpful in making animations. These two links are a very good way to help make animations.
www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
www.gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/
You can apply these styles and make a signature like this
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Gimp is technically a way to do everything photoshop can do. It is a tad harder but if you get use to it you will be able to make good sigs in no time.
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