I did try that, but by then I'd anchored that layer and saved it and had no idea how to "unanchor" it...Originally Posted by HopeHacker
I think it's looking great. One thing I would do, if I were you, would be to move the Lily and Stumpy picture on the right, to the right edge, so you don't see where the original photo cut off Stumpy's body.
You can use the same fonts with The Gimp as you can with Photoshop. You download to your Windows/Fonts section, and then they are usable with all of your programs.Originally Posted by sarahp
I did try that, but by then I'd anchored that layer and saved it and had no idea how to "unanchor" it...
And I guess the trick is to get more textured backgrounds so the cats don't look quite so obviously cut out, feather them some more, and make sure you get single cats and more of a close up pic so they're not so small and take up more of the empty space.
I'll keep playing, and read more of the Gimp book, and I'll get there. I'm only up to chapter 2I guess the one drawback of Gimp over Photoshop is that there's less a lot less fonts (such as Halloween fonts) to download.
Oh cool, thanks Hope! I had saved it, closed it, then opened it again and thought I should move it over and realised I didn't know how to - I'd meant to have it in a layer on it's own, and didn't realise until after it was on the same layer as the other pic.Originally Posted by HopeHacker
Just for the heck of it, I moved the picture over on your signature. You don't have to re-do it or anything. I then it looks great.
I know the lasso but haven't learnt the cloning tool, I'll have to give that one a go!! ThanksOriginally Posted by HopeHacker
By the way, the way I moved the picture over to the edge was I circled it with the lasso tool, which in Photoshop makes it movable, and that's all there was to it, then I used the cloning tool, to put some of you yellow sparkles in the blank area. Very simple.
Flattening the image just means once you have all of the layers in place, just as you like them, and you have the image just as you like it, and it's finished, you just flatten the image, so it is no longer layers but is one single image. Does that make sense? In other wards it is no longer editable, and you can't move the layers anymore.Originally Posted by mooficat
Hey looking goodits really addictive and with so many different themes etc, we could be creating for ever
trouble is its more fun than other things, you know ................. like making the dinner, cleaning, shopping
My next learning task is how to put borders etc around the whole thing - YUK - its driving me mad ! ! and what the heck does - flatten layer - mean ? ?
Oh well another 5 hrs the PC might crack it
Good Luck