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Anyone familiar with GIMP that can give me some pointers? I've never used it before and Photoshop is being a pain.

Also any pointers(maybe tutorials) to make avatars and sigs using WMV? I've having issues of saving a character as a PNG file and the weapon like disappears(It's the Stave of Ferocity).

Disappearing/Transparent stuff happens a lot. Normally what I do is save both a png and bmp file, and place the bmp over the png and get rid of all of the background the bmp has.

Kurenio wrote:Disappearing/Transparent stuff happens a lot. Normally what I do is save both a png and bmp file, and place the bmp over the png and get rid of all of the background the bmp has.

Well thats a pain in the rumpus...XD Damn you WMV for being stupid like that!

Jessibelle wrote: Well thats a pain in the rumpus...XD Damn you WMV for being stupid like that!

Yep gotta love that magic wand tool >.> I'd go crazy if I had to do it manually each time.

Kurenio wrote:

Jessibelle wrote: Well thats a pain in the rumpus...XD Damn you WMV for being stupid like that!

Yep gotta love that magic wand tool >.> I'd go crazy if I had to do it manually each time.

Would you consider making a tutorial sometime on how you do it? You got me curious now.

I'm not so good with those. Plus I've never used gimp lol

Kurenio wrote:I'm not so good with those. Plus I've never used gimp lol

not that much different from Photoshop. XD

I don't use the magic wand..I sit there getting rid of the background pixel by pixel.

I made a small tutorial in the WMV help thingy. But since I don't use GIMP I dont know how similar things are. Rheyla said it sorta helped though.

The magic wand tool is about the only thing I really felt like I've got a handle on now. There's still a LOT about GIMP that I don't know. I do know that the text/fonts suck nards, and I don't think you can add borders. If you can, I haven't figured it out yet.

For models that have transparent bits, I have to save it as a JPEG and then magic-wand the dark blue yuckiness away.

Qinni wrote:I don't use the magic wand..I sit there getting rid of the background pixel by pixel.

Qinni, thats madness! I would go absolutely crazy! =P

Serenith wrote:

Qinni wrote:I don't use the magic wand..I sit there getting rid of the background pixel by pixel.

Qinni, thats madness! I would go absolutely crazy! =P

but you get the results you want in the end

Well if thats the only way to do it in GIMP.... It would drive me insane though. I am very fond of my magic wand tool. And the other way to do it in photoshop is supposed to be the Pen tool, but that takes more time than I would like. Magic wand is pretty quick and simple.

Serenith wrote:Well if thats the only way to do it in GIMP.... It would drive me insane though. I am very fond of my magic wand tool. And the other way to do it in photoshop is supposed to be the Pen tool, but that takes more time than I would like. Magic wand is pretty quick and simple.

Photoshop 7.0 doesnt seem to wanna agree with Windows 7 Professional.

I use photoshop CS4 on an iMac... I can't really help you out there.

maybe 7.0 is just so outdated it cant handle Windows 7 anymore