The secrets on how to make artwork of the Sam/Jack ship family thread

[Jumble]

Eve you need to pm your Challenge entries to Oma

[TrueRomantic]

Thanks Jumble!!!! I love it!!!

Thanks for posting Oma. I'm sure the family can take it. If not, we'll know better for next time, lol!

[Jumble]

Glad you like it TR

[Oma-1]

Sorry Fainne & Eve! I didn't see them

Adding them now!


Edit: They're in the post now BTW, I keep meaning to ask (and then forgetting again ) Should I put everyone's names by their stuff?

[josiane]

Sorry Fainne & Eve! I didn't see them

Adding them now!


Edit: They're in the post now BTW, I keep meaning to ask (and then forgetting again ) Should I put everyone's names by their stuff?

I think that would be good, I was just looking at them and trying to remember who'd done each one! They do look very cool all posted together though, that's for sure

[Oma-1]

JUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I can't type properly for laughing.......


I just realised that the dog on TR's pic isn't any old dog......it's a BROCCOLI poodle!!!!

[Jumble]

Yep

Its quite a challenge finding fun things to put in

[josiane]

As promised, tut for my Avenger 2.0 sig, before I forget how I did it

First I resized and cropped the screencap to the size of my sig (600x190). Unfortunately when I had it at 600 px wide it was too tall to get everyone in properly. So I copied the layer and resized the top one to be slightly smaller (I think it was about 440 px wide, but I fiddled a bit until I got the right size so I can't remember exactly ), which meant that Jack and Teal'c were the right size, and Sam and Felger were visible. I then blended the edges of the top layer into the bottom one (feathering at about 40px) so it actually looked like the background was wider, and then merged the two layers.

Next I lightened the sig by duplicating the layer and putting the top one on screen at about 70%.

Then I added the text. The Butch and Sundance text is in Bleeding Cowboys font, and the Avenger 2.0 in Weltron Urban.

On top of all of this I added a texture layer. I used this texture, which I resized to 600 px wide, and set as overlay (100%). I liked the look of this over most of the sig, but it looked a bit funny over the top of Jack and Teal'c, so I used a round eraser brush and erased this layer over Jack and Teal'c.

Finally I made a border by duplicating the background layer, setting it to hard light (at 100%), moving it to the top and then cutting out the middle using the rectangle select.

And that's it! Told you it was a simple one

[starlover]

Love all the new artwork...and *squee* on my mem pic...love it Jumble *tackle huggles Jumbly!*

[Jumble]

Love all the new artwork...and *squee* on my mem pic...love it Jumble *tackle huggles Jumbly!*

Phew, that's a relief! *happy dance* I hoped you would like the pink teddy

and didn't I make you look innocent

[Aveo_amacus]

Wow they look so good all next to each other!
Thanks Oma!

[starlover]

Phew, that's a relief! *happy dance* I hoped you would like the pink teddy

and didn't I make you look innocent

Yup...I look like I'm the most innocent girl of all

Yeah...a teddy...I also have a teddy so it's okay!

Btw I ps'ed...Lol...just a background for my pc..my dog...only fixed the colouring (I'm bad! )

[TrueRomantic]

Hey Josi, is that cowboy font for gimp or ps?

[Oma-1]

You can use the fonts with any program You just need to download it, unzip the folder, then copy the font file. Click on Control Panel, then paste it into the font folder. It should install automatically when you open Gimp

[TrueRomantic]

It doesn't work. It's just a page with the sentence "the quick brown fox..." over and over again in different sizes. There is no actual thing besides that in it. And I just checked, it's not in Gimp.