The Graphics Lounge [Resources included] Page 2

Started by seeker July 23rd, 2010 6:07 AM
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Aquacorde

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Um, I'm using GIMP, and I reeeeally don't get tags. And all the tutorials I can find show me things that I can't understand and use language that I am not familiar with.
So, um, I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to explain, slowly and clearly, how to make tags that don't look like what I ended up when I tried a while ago like half an hour ago? (Which would be this.)
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seeker

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Posted May 20th, 2018
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Some of the tuts aren't working and is there anymore for Gimp? /shot for reviving thread
I will have to give the thread a spring clean soon to be honest. But because I'm not a gimp user myself, I don't come across many.

Um, I'm using GIMP, and I reeeeally don't get tags. And all the tutorials I can find show me things that I can't understand and use language that I am not familiar with.
So, um, I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to explain, slowly and clearly, how to make tags that don't look like what I ended up when I tried a while ago like half an hour ago? (Which would be this.)
Well my recommendation would be to post in the graphics rating thread, which is stickied. Then I would say that you should try and figure out how some tag artists came up with the results they did in their tag. Read the main post in this thread for some terminology and do a bit of research.

Konekodemon

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I need a huge favor. Could someone take this and resize it to be poster size, like how it is on the anime. I want a poster cosplay item of this poster from the show but this was as close as I could find to it but it's too small to be a poster.

Please check out my InuYasha fanfiction and tell me what you think.
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Xyrin

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Posted October 17th, 2013
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I just started doing graphics and I'm not too good. I neeed some crit but nobody's been giving kme any really. So if anyone who's good would just look at my thread and give me crit on a few pieces that'd be great.

Here it is.

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Not sure if someone wants to do my dirty work, but if someone could resize this to fit the size of a tumblr background youd be amazing. Or maybe just teach me how to in a brief tutorial.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs37/f/2008/270/a/6/Paper_Yoshi_3D_by_YoshiNoJas.jpg

thanks(:

seeker

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I need a huge favor. Could someone take this and resize it to be poster size, like how it is on the anime. I want a poster cosplay item of this poster from the show but this was as close as I could find to it but it's too small to be a poster.
Not sure if someone wants to do my dirty work, but if someone could resize this to fit the size of a tumblr background youd be amazing. Or maybe just teach me how to in a brief tutorial.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs37/f/2008/270/a/6/Paper_Yoshi_3D_by_YoshiNoJas.jpg

thanks(:
This isn't a request thread guys, I recommend heading over to the Art Gallery where there's a request thread.

Also this site will resize images for you - http://www.picresize.com/

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Posted August 16th, 2019
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I made a tutorial on my Dante tag. Thought I'd make one since so many people asked me to.

Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8917494/Tutorial.png

Xyrin

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Posted October 17th, 2013
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I made a tutorial on my Dante tag. Thought I'd make one since so many people asked me to.

Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8917494/Tutorial.png
OH MY GOODNESS! THAT ONE I LOVE THAT ONE! YOU'RE AWESOME!!!

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Konekodemon

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This isn't a request thread guys, I recommend heading over to the Art Gallery where there's a request thread.

Also this site will resize images for you - http://www.picresize.com/
That didn't work. It wouldn't resize it big enough.

Please check out my InuYasha fanfiction and tell me what you think.
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quixotic

keyholes
Seen January 3rd, 2017
Posted March 13th, 2014
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Alright guys, reviving this because I've got some ideas I want to try and implement, even just at some point in the future, but if nobody is going pay attention / get involved, there really is no point at all.

Basically, last night I was looking through all the old community threads in Graphics and Photography and there are so many ideas that could work to bring more activity to this forum and to help build a stronger bond between the members who frequent here, and maybe even get other members on board.

So just for a show of interest, how many of you would be interested in a graphics tournament? Here is a previous example that was quite popular sort of 2 years ago, but I'd like to see it have a comeback if you guys are interested!
Comic Tragedy's FSE

Another thing, that might also be quite nice that was surprisingly popular a while ago was an Icon Wall, where people posted icons, (sort of like the graphics giveaway for people to wear if they wanted) but they were all compiled in the first post side by side in a massive wall of icons as done by the community. This was fun because it was a good way to get your icons out there and noticed, particularly members without galleries could post as well. Here's the original.
The PokeCommunity Icon Wall

Basically I just want to get all of us graphic artists back together like a family, get more activity in this forum and have a darn good time!
So even if you don't like those ideas, tell me why, what you'd like to see instead and we'll see if we can arrange something as a community! :D
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Alright guys, reviving this because I've got some ideas I want to try and implement, even just at some point in the future, but if nobody is going pay attention / get involved, there really is no point at all.

Basically, last night I was looking through all the old community threads in Graphics and Photography and there are so many ideas that could work to bring more activity to this forum and to help build a stronger bond between the members who frequent here, and maybe even get other members on board.

So just for a show of interest, how many of you would be interested in a graphics tournament? Here is a previous example that was quite popular sort of 2 years ago, but I'd like to see it have a comeback if you guys are interested!
Comic Tragedy's FSE

Another thing, that might also be quite nice that was surprisingly popular a while ago was an Icon Wall, where people posted icons, (sort of like the graphics giveaway for people to wear if they wanted) but they were all compiled in the first post side by side in a massive wall of icons as done by the community. This was fun because it was a good way to get your icons out there and noticed, particularly members without galleries could post as well. Here's the original.
The PokeCommunity Icon Wall

Basically I just want to get all of us graphic artists back together like a family, get more activity in this forum and have a darn good time!
So even if you don't like those ideas, tell me why, what you'd like to see instead and we'll see if we can arrange something as a community! :D
The Icon Wall seems a very nifty idea. It would make a lovely community collage. ;D

seeker

Ireland
Seen November 1st, 2019
Posted May 20th, 2018
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14.1 Years
First of all, I'm gonna update this thread and get rid of some broken links and add some new tutorials. I'm really not happy with how outdated I've let this thread get. In addition, getting back to you moments on your suggestions; starting with the FSE, let's just take a look at how many of these guys are still around:

  1. C:\PC\Ezzo
  2. Gummy
  3. Comic Tragedy
  4. Cherii
  5. Statistics
  6. Counterfeit
  7. Dukey
  8. Graceful
  9. moments.
  10. Loki
  11. Color Me Evil
  12. vVintage
  13. Angela
One. And we do not have the community to get that going again right now. However, I'm certainly interested in rebuilding one to create a prospect for having one again. A tournament such as this would be a good way to spark a little activity again. But I think what would be good, would be to get some teams going.

What I'm thinking of is getting a prefix made known as [Team], and an additional section added to the rules on how they work (I'd talk to Ana about this). If any of you go to big graphics forums such as Fringe or Planet Renders, teams are pretty big things. They give graphic artists the opportunity to help each other, collab and battle other teams. Again, we may need a bit more of a sense of community first.

As for the icon wall, I think it would be a good idea to keep adding to it, in a new thread, but I would rather see if Gazza would like to remake it. If not, then someone else could. It was always a nice concept.

Lastly, getting the graphics school active again is a good idea. The more we breathe life into graphics in this forum, the more we can expect to see from photography. Personally, I've let down my responsibilities in recent weeks due to a rather busy life, but I'm all up for helping out and getting a sense of community rolling again. Staring with getting the competition threads up and editing this thread once again with some updates. Bit by bit we'll get there.

moments.

quixotic

keyholes
Seen January 3rd, 2017
Posted March 13th, 2014
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14.9 Years
I agree with the tournament, I'd like to work towards getting that back up and running at some point in the future, I just dug it up so it could generate some interest and so it wouldn't get forgotten again.

As for the icon wall, I was unsure if Gazza was still active, so I just assumed someone else could start it up, but if he's still around and wanting to get it up again himself, that's all cool!

Lastly, teams is definitely a good idea, the only issue is that I don't think we even have enough active members to create teams. We could form one team to start with and then once it gets going we could split the members and half of them start the next team. We can have battles and stuff within the team itself at first, but we don't really have enough to start up two teams off the bat. I definitely want to see this implemented though, I've been wanting teams since I've been at g&p and I'd love to see it kick off!

Another thing I think we need to spark more activity are some of the things I mentioned in the 'what do you want to see more of' thread. I mentioned emblems for things like consistent and quality CnC, we could have one for battles, one for resources and so on, but it has been awkward getting everything started without a proper mod... sorry ana!

But yeah, we've got good ideas, just need to get the people in here!
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seeker

Ireland
Seen November 1st, 2019
Posted May 20th, 2018
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Well yeah, G&P kind of struggles when it doesn't have someone to pull it by the reigns. But with that said, if you have emblem ideas, all you need do is make the required 80x80 icon and the description & name and send it to Ana. She'll bring it up to be uploaded if it's approved. If you want to get something done, it's a matter of sending a PM.

moments.

quixotic

keyholes
Seen January 3rd, 2017
Posted March 13th, 2014
3,406 posts
14.9 Years
I think just also the presence of an authority and moderator is comforting. Like technically that's Ana's job, but because she doesn't really frequent it doesn't have the same effect.

Well I will put some time into some of those emblems, probably run them by you, Gav just to make sure they're all good and if anything needs tweaking.

Another thought on the teams enlightenment, it will be like an actual working version of the Battle / Collabs social group that was made multiple times and failed miserably every single time without fail... Not sure if you were ever part of them, but they were a great idea, just needed the prominence and structure of actual threads and prefixes...

Also, after stalking the threads from the past year in G&P, I noticed that all the battles voting threads were held in Competitions rather than the actual G&P section. Do you think this is a better idea for getting more views and votes from people given that it is shared by artists and pixel artists as well, but given it is a smaller sub forum, maybe not.
I don't really know, but just a thought that if moved might generate more activity as well...
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Posted October 21st, 2011
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Yeah i just posted my entry to totf as a URL, i figured it'd get put in [img] tags in the voting thread so it didn't really matter.

Um, a set stock one would be nice as in the past it's really helped me to expand from my usual style.

Tags seem to be most popular here so i guess it could be a tag battle, but i'm more than up for doing something on a bigger canvas and would prefer it really.

seeker

Ireland
Seen November 1st, 2019
Posted May 20th, 2018
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Yeah don't worry too much about the url. I'll put it in tags when I put the thread up anyway, I don't believe you're any sort of bot or anything so it's all good.

Yeeeah, I'm pretty meh about tags, I prefer doing larger stuff myself. So if you set a stock with high quality it'd be cool with me to do something on a larger canvas. If you set one, what kind do you think it would be?

seeker

Ireland
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Posted May 20th, 2018
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Well I think you should just set it as a first come first serve basis for who can set the stock. I dunno who might set a good one, but if you think the quality is too low just contest it because I'm sure that whoever sets it will know that you're not just trying to get them to choose a stock you like more. Though whoever chooses it will have an advantage. Bit of an odd one, but just be obvious about what you're looking for in the battle haha.