#gimp help

[papermint-airplane]

Anyone have any good links to some GIMP tutorials?

Either video or text tutorials, it doesn't matter. I can't afford Photoshop so the next best thing is GIMP. I've had it for years but it's updated several times since the last time I used it and I have no idea what I'm looking at. I don't even know where to start Googling. I just want to make some of my screenshots prettier sometimes. Help a Simmer out pls? 🥺

[deadhawke]

Tried my hand at digitally coloring this panel instead and while I may not be the best at it the determination is real and I'm pretty happy with it

[jaimistoryteller]

Sales & Help

6/22/2023 4 pm EST

Hiya Folks

I know not everyone just wants to give money away, a lot can't afford to do so. That's okay! There are other ways to help!

Share this!

Buy something off my Redbubble! Right now it is mostly focused on different Pride Flag butterflies. There is 21 different designs, while I work on the templates to upload for another 11 of them. Buy a sticker for $3, and while I might only get part of that, it adds up!

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So please, please share this, buy something, or both! I just want to make sure I don't lose my account, pay my electric bill, and get my cat back from the crematorium.

Thank you all.

Jaimi

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Here's some examples from Redbubble:

Here's some of the gimp brushes on Patreon:

[catsinmugs]

playing with reshades with a new build i'm working on... instead of building LOLOL

[chanyoungies]

the complete eri guidebook (2023) full version under the cut ♡ pdf ver. happy birthday @xiaojuun !! <3

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[thebewilderer]

I'm almost finished* with my current project!

*read: almost out of thread on the bobbins because I don't have a plan for the lace and thus don't have a planned stopping point for length

(pattern is a modified-by-me version of this Framed Rose Ground)

And I'm super excited to start the next one!

(pattern is this Roman Maze)

It's probably way too advanced for my skill level, as I really haven't made many pieces before (the pattern in the first picture twice, a bookmark piece with spiders and Torchon ground, a bookmark with Torchon ground and one diamond of cloth stitch, and then another bookmark piece of just Torchon ground).

I've also never done a mat of any sort before, or worked with gimps at all, which this pattern has a frankly ridiculous amount of.

But I've learned that doing pieces I'm already capable of is incredibly boring for me. The first piece that I did was just Torchon ground with twisted footside, and it was so boring and unchallenging (and also looked like I could crochet it in minutes) that I almost gave up lace making as soon as I started.

So I've figured that the best way to keep my own interest is to jump headfirst into the deep end and flounder until I figure out how to swim!

That said, if anyone has any advice on gimps (do you really not secure them to the rest of the lace? do you really just rely on the surrounding twists to hold them in place??! that seems insanely tenuous!), it's more than welcome!

[cicadagaze]

the many years of firestars, the many years of progress.

[bigbutchgothgirl]

Yk that feeling when you see a tweet and you feel the need, the primal urge to edit it? and you're too sleep-deprived to think twice? yeah yeah

[crossbackpoke-check]

Hello, im wehaveagathering from my main blog, im kind of obsessed with your hockey poetry edits and I think your blog is great! I guess I kind of have a dumb question, where do you find the images you use for your edits? Did you say Getty in your tags?? I’ve gotten into making icons recently (and i have ideas for poetry edits hrrrghhh) but it’s hard to find high res images. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a nice day :)

first of all thank you so much 🥹 and second that’s absolutely not a dumb question!! i do pull a lot of images from getty and i’ll also download pictures from sports articles (i got a lot of the hugheses pictures from online access articles, for example), or sometimes from instagram/facebook/twitter if an account is public. freely admitting that i am not technologically advanced? inclined? in the slightest here, but the image editing software that you use and how you import/export photos with it makes a difference in the quality of them as well!

if you haven’t seen them yet, i would also recommend checking out @simmyfrobby @national-hockey-lesbian @hauntedppgpaints @tapedsleeves @starscelly and @captainbradmarchand’s blogs just off the top of my head!!! they might know more places to get high res images and also i love their work 💕🫶

[otherfireangel]

his name is Jonas and he is very talented

[deadhawke]

I was gonna see about maybe coloring in a couple more and posting them all at once but tbh I am very proud of how this one came out so I'm posting it now

[er1c-c4rtman]

✨️☕️Tea party☕️✨️

[calamitaswrath]

I already got like three different creative hobbies that I pursue, and out of those only one with any kind of frequency (writing), and yet

And yet I keep thinking about giving drawing a shot, partly cause I want to have more art of my Cross (lol).

At this rate, I'll probably really just give it a shot sometime soon... even if I don't have a tablet lying around at home and my pens (as in, the ones you'd use for traditional art) are all shit. . . so I would/will just use my mouse.

[buginacup]

How do you make that awesome dithering effect in your recent 3D stuff? Would love to try and incorporate it into something of my own!

Excellent question! I learned the process from Jay Tholen of Hypnospace Outlaw here, but I'll give you a short version. The open-source (free!) image editing software GIMP has a function in COLORS->DITHER that allows you to limit how many reds, greens, and blues there are in your image. If your image is small and the number of colors is also small you end up with something looking pretty crunchy and retro!

Definitely experiment with saturation and color curves. This dithering really compliments bright colors well so I always try to aim for colors that are almost garish. That's more preference than anything, though. For animations, I use Aseprite to export one long image strip and apply these changes all at once to every frame. Then I reimport them into Aseprite as a spritesheet!

[shwoo]

I've been fighting Windows' API trying to make a simple program before tomorrow night because I volunteered to do a trivia thing for my family, and I thought it would help with organising the questions and scores. I already have the questions, so it's not a huge problem if it's not finished in time.

I just wanted some form controls, like buttons and stuff, but I'm not that familiar with doing that in Visual Studio with C++. And the information on Microsoft's site is extensive, but... convenient (missing a lot of important information). I learned Win32 programming about a year ago, so I might have also forgotten something important that wasn't mentioned in the documentation I'm using at the moment.

And I could not get a control defined in the code to show up. I didn't want to use the resources for a lot of reasons, even once I figured out how to bypass the kind of stripped down visual editor, but I also couldn't seem to program a button in directly and have it appear in the window when I ran the program. It seemed to be created fine, but I couldn't see it anywhere.

I finally found some example code on Stack Overflow or somewhere, and the reason the button wasn't showing up was because... I hadn't specified the WS_VISIBLE flag when I created it. (WS stands for Window Style. Win32 has a very broad definition of a window that includes buttons) Apparently it's programmed in a way that assumes that an object invisible until you tell it that it's not? I would've done it the other way around.

I had to sit there for a few seconds after I added it in and the button finally showed up. At least it's progress?

[boo-jay]

OK YAY YAY AH AH, NOW THAT IVE BEEN REPLIED TO I HAVE TO DO AN EDIT SHIT OK IK WAHT TO DO HHHHHHHH I DONT ACTUALLY IM SHIT AT GIMP AHHH