Not many pics yet... but that's largely because I just downloaded a bunch of toys (gimp pimpage) and have only finished one image since.

I'm actually going through a lot of old tutorials to polish my skills. This is the result of one... from a rusty old paper making exercise.

For that exercise, not knowing what it was "supposed" to look like really paid off... I personally think my paper looks better than the example that I finally saw later.

Though the next exercise is about making mountains. And that one... figuring out the correct angle is going to be... fun. No images at all to work from. But hey, its possible that there are plug-ins that can do it for me.



Looking forward to meeting you all!

Wow. Shrinking that image for viewing really... changes my perspective on it. It looks better on my desktop... honest.

I think I'm going to have to look really hard at a topo map.
Then I should generate something that looks less like muddy dragging footprints to look like low ridge mountains.

Heh. Now you know why I'm looking at a tutorial about mountains.

to Gimp Chat Dorthy! I love your map even if it's shrunk down. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work. It looks like we're going to have even more fun with you here. We all like to dive into a post and put our offerings in, too.

Here is what you are looking for I believe Dorthy.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/7431
Welcome to Gimp Chat! =)

Welcome Dorothy! I agree that the map looks good shrunken! It probably looks better full sized, but what I see so far is quite impressive!

If you make Gimpchat your home, you can truly say

"There's no place like home. There's no place like home."

Sorry! That's my type of humor!

Well, Photomaster, et al, I'm startled that people liked my work. It looks pretty amateur compared to... well, all the stuff I've seen here.

I deliberately scaled the image down because I had some trouble uploading it full size. I have a pretty good internet connection and an only slightly underpowered computer. During the process, everything sloooooowed down, and I wasn't sure it would load at all. I have re-posted the original... having the photo hosted off-site.

Part of my problem is that I'm not used to letting the computer do the work for me. My background is in uh... snail media? IRL wetware? You know... linseed oil instead of linux; india ink, not Inkscape... you get the idea.

Nice script, btw. Am looking at the output as we speak.




Woot!


The disparity is embarassing since I remember Gimp back from about... oh, 1996 or
thereabouts. (remember when text layers had no alpha? Interlace was all? *shudder*)
But, I lost my way, etc etc... and now I'm back.

However, I have... quite a history with graphics software, and linux in general.

Believe it or not, my second love was Adobe Illustrator, running on a state-of-the-art 486 running Windows 3.1 for WorkGroups. This is around 1990-93 roughly. Before that, I ran PAINT III.. on an Amiga. Legendary software. Still miss some of it's features. But I won't bore the art geeks...

In fact, I had a tablet, a scanner, and a printer all hooked up to my machine running Windows back in 1996. I had a version of Photoshop that I scammed from the government (ie. I was a student). Yes, that was before Windows 98. Just saying.

My system was insanely unstable, and painfully slow. Then my geek(ier) buddy says... "hey, dude, let's overclock! that will solve EVERYTHING! "
...
No. I did not. I ducked and installed Slackware instead. From floppy disks. All...28 or 36 or something of them. It was... insane. Yes, I also had a Zip drive (remember THOSE?) but I couldn't get the distro to boot off the Zip drive, not even with a trippy hack with Dos that worked for some other stuff.
This was also pre-lilo. FYI. (If you don't know what that means, let's just say that bootstrapping was involved... which is NOT fun.)

The irony is, not only did Slackware solve the IRQ problem (turned out my scanner and cd drive worked as SCSI devices... so IRQs worked out) but it also solved the over-heating problem, but I can't for the life of me figure out how. My system was also suddenly much faster! No overclocking needed!
Bonus! Oh, and I found GIMP. And it was good.

So I've been around a while.

PS. Have fun with the name all you like. In terms of words, I'm bulletproof. I think it's funny, too... goes with having been blond, going to a REAL art school with hot&cold running criticism, and...
having a goofy name growing up. And probably having been a bb mod elsewhere. Tis' cool.


So here it is: original size.



Funny how even the colors look less flat.

If my joking becomes a problem, let me know.

I love the image! Is that lettering Chinese, Japanese, or something else? It really adds a classy touch to the image!

Looks great. =)
Seems to need a great big X marks the spot somewhere though!

I love me buried treasure matey. argghh

{If my joking becomes a problem, let me know.}

Keep it up Greg. Love your joking.....

Ditto on the joking.

The language is Japanese. I cheated and used Google Translate, but the person I am making the map for actually does read Japanese. She can tell me how good they did.

In fact, if I did know Japanese, this would look that much cooler. Then I could insert the text going on the vertical line, and that would ROCK! But as it is, I don't know where one word starts and the other ends, so I am leaving it on the hum-drum horizontal until I get feedback from an expert. Legibility does matter.

I was hoping I could figure it out based on spacing or behavior on the part of the word processor.. but no luck. Maybe I'll try again with OO, and see if I can get it to print text on the horizontal naturally, then do another cut and paste move. We'll see.

BTW, this image, even on my original development track, is/was not complete. While there is no "X", there are stars and little symbols on the map that show where cities and ruins are. Which is kind of like "X marks the spot", but more... subtle. It's like a dungeon crawl only in a sandbox format,in the parlance of those computer RPG gamers. In other words, you get to choose where you land, which way you go, but it's still like a treasure hunt. There are just more places to look.

ARRRR, Maitie! Love them pirates! I'm part Scottish, btw... Which isn't quite like being part Berber, but still...