Rebuilt Website - Mine

Post by **benryves** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 6:11 pm

Paint.NET is a decent free image editing tool.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 6:23 pm

Gimp.org is a great free tool.

hop · Post by **hop** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 6:25 pm

Homestar wrote:
hop wrote:Open PS(P). Create some layers.
Draw some things or let it render some random stuff. Click some filters. Ctrl+s.

Rinse and repeat untill you can aim for a desired effect.
Is there a way to download a free version of this program? Or cheaply buy one?

Nah but you only need it for high end professional photo manipulation or if you're too lazy to learn how to use a real GUI.

Otherwise, this is better:

http://www.gimp.org/

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 8:02 pm

ok ok, (sorry Kalan for slightly changing this thread's topic, but I'm really interested in making this kind of art).

Ok, I have both the gimp and Paint.net [just got the new 3.0 version btw], what steps would I take to make them look good?

I've tried a few, but they all look like someone threw up on my compuer screen; not exactly the effect I was looking for.

How in the world did you pull this one off?

hop · Post by **hop** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 8:50 pm

Someone once said that if you want to learn to build a house you should build a house. Don't ask anybody, just build a house.

Otherwise you're just repeating other's steps.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 08 Feb, 2007 8:51 pm

If you give the image tags on the Images page a width=100 and height=100 (in css or otherwise) they will load more gracefully.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 3:25 am

Timendus wrote:If you give the image tags on the Images page a width=100 and height=100 (in css or otherwise) they will load more gracefully.

But it will use more bandwidth than needed, so therefor I made thumbs

.

I can't remember how exactly I completed that image, just look around and experiment but mostly have fun doing it!

hop · Post by **hop** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 9:44 am

You can give the image tags of the thumbs a preset widht and height. This causes browsers to reserve that space before the image is fully loaded. So they don't jump everywhere while loading.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 10:41 am

Exactely, I didn't mean that you should use the original, big images, just that you should specify their dimensions to keep the browser from making them jump around.

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 1:47 pm

Hey, I got one!

click for full 1280x800 size.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 5:33 pm

Thanks hop and Timendus, I will add that.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 13 Apr, 2007 4:15 am

I made a RSS feed, and made a few changes. I am also revamping all my projects (updating and optimizing), at that I am working on three new projects as well...I got bored and inspired, I just finished one project and it is ready for upload (I think I will update with all the updates).