Lesson 2 - Part B: creating a userbar

[NLegari]

Took a little while, but here it is:

[♔Jean-Luc Picard♔]

I'll have mine a little later in the week. AP exams are this coming week so I'm a little bogged down with studying.

[Lü Bu]

Take your time.This lession will be opened for some more time...

[Tzar]

Lol , it's great that even the RS 2.0 2d-artist joins this lesson

I do my work with PhotoShop so why not learn tu use GIMP also.

[sithlord447]

gimp is better than PS

[Lü Bu]

No way---

[PubliusKhannus]

rofl no, but is a great medium nonetheless. It just doesn't have all of the features and capabilities to compete. But it beats paint any day.

[Scandinavisksoldat]

rofl no, but is a great medium nonetheless. It just doesn't have all of the features and capabilities to compete. But it beats paint any day.

Ah, but it is quality, not quantity, of features that counts. And GIMP has the best and only feature necessary:

FULL LINUX SUPPORT!!!

[sithlord447]

perhaps it could be i don't want to shell out 150$ + i leared how to use gimp first

[PubliusKhannus]

I view gimp more as a stepping stone for Photoshop, though it easily succeeds as a stand alone program.

[Imperator-Rex]

[Killerbee]

I view gimp more as a stepping stone for Photoshop, though it easily succeeds as a stand alone program.

Actually , i made a thread about it :

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240104

GIMP came out as the winner ..

Because , tell me 1 thing that (in-game) Photoshop can do , but GIMP can't

[Theodotos I]

My pattern file is showing up as corrupted and the opacity of the ellipse seems to stay the same. Help!

[Sevasti]

For some reason I can't get the scanlines pattern to show as a "pattern fill" when trying to use the bucket tool. I saved the pattern as a .pat in the correct folder. Am I missing something?

[Theodotos I]

For some reason I can't get the scanlines pattern to show as a "pattern fill" when trying to use the bucket tool. I saved the pattern as a .pat in the correct folder. Am I missing something?

Same problem I'm having.

[Sevasti]

Same problem I'm having.

I actually found a temporary solution. Just open up the pat file in gimp again and save it a second time, just name it to whatever (like wwwwww for instance, just so you can find it easily in the list), same with the description, just scribble down some gibberish and you'll find it once you've restarted gimp. Don't ask me why but it works.

Edit: Work done. I used a motive for background, made some color adjustments, slapped on a gradient effect and a catchy quote. The result can be viewed in my signature.

[Theodotos I]

Doesn't work for me.

[Subuatai de Bodemloze]

did you save it to the right location Theo? you will have to reload the patern files though.

hit Shift +ctlr+p... then at the bottom there is a refresh button.

[Theodotos I]

did you save it to the right location Theo? you will have to reload the patern files though.

hit Shift +ctlr+p... then at the bottom there is a refresh button.

It's in the right location, I dove into Program Files to check. When you say hit "Shift + ctrl. . .) is that with GIMP running? Thanks.

[Sevasti]

If it's any help I just discovered that the pattern is displayed with it's description and not its name. Maybe you're looking for the wrong name in the pattern tab?

Edit: so when I didn't find my scanlines it was due to it simply being saved as "gimp pattern" as I didn't bother to write anything else. Same with my www, it's sorted under rrr.