Practising Paintshop/GIMP...

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ahhh, Marcel, I see you came to the GIMP side! May the GIMP be with you!!!

It really is a great program. I'm still finding new stuff to play with it.
 
Njaco said:
ahhh, Marcel, I see you came to the GIMP side! May the GIMP be with you!!!

It really is a great program. I'm still finding new stuff to play with it.
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Yup, Paintshop doesn't work on Linux. I find it is better than Paintshop. Only the user-interface is a bit confusing. I heard it'll be better with the next release (I'm now using 2.6)
 
Long time since I've done any Gimp-ing, so to see if I still could do it and because I needed a new wallpaper on my new OS (Bodhi-linux, simply love it) I fired up Gimp again. Bodhi comes with version 2.8 of Gimp, which is absolutely a big step forward in usabillity compared to the previous 2.6-series of Gimp.The photo is one I made myself of the DC-2 Uiver at the Oostwold airshow last year. I decided to let it fly over the map of the London-Melbourne race (in which the real Uiver became 2nd) with old photo's of both cities lying on top of it.

The reason why I left so much open space at the top part is because it's a wallpaper and it leaves room to use that part for other things. This is what my desktop looks like:
 
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Thats great Marcel!!!

I've got the newer version of GIMP too and I had to get used to 'exporting' pics instead of just 'saving' them.
 
Njaco said:
Thats great Marcel!!!

I've got the newer version of GIMP too and I had to get used to 'exporting' pics instead of just 'saving' them.
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Me too, but I like the 1-window interface as I kept on loosing the toolbox all the time. Things are worse on Linux as it has virtual desktops, meaning the toolbox can be on any desktop

I think I should get some more life in this thread again as I still have a lot of fun doing this kind of thing. I also should give more explanation how I do it for others to learn. Unfortunately I don't have that much time, so don't know if I can pull it off.
 
Trying something simple. It's a combination of the following pictures:

Fokker T.V on patrol:


Rotterdam center after the bombing in may 1940:


- Add color to the T.V
- Make Rotterdam as overlay, but mask out the T.V (no overlay on that one
- Nice font in Dutch-orange, below the rotterdam outline
- Bumpmap the text
- Little bevel on the edges.

Gives:
 
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Have been to the Oostwold airshow again and decided to use one of the pics I took there. This time the only Dutch P51, Damn Yankee. This is a test upload to see if it works.

Seems to be too big, shrinking...


Annoying yellow bar, click to see full size, so shrinking more.


Slightly brighten Damn Yankee...

Hmm, some ugly greenish colour. I'll keep it to the darker one for now I think.
 
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