I can't believe I'm doing this but..... - Page 2

#26 01-04-2008, 04:34 PM

MonCapitan2002 · #27 01-14-2008, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

None of my usual sources have anything in stock. Looks like this will be a commission. I have the perfect artist in mind too, but his online activities have been a bit irregular lately. :chin:

Did you ever get in contact with that artist?

Deadlokd · #28 09-03-2008, 12:43 AM

Haha! I made one. Will work on them and get better with time.

ETA: And thread necromancy FTW!

Pinecone · #29 09-03-2008, 03:03 AM

A brand new first smilie! :excited:

Crumb · #30 09-03-2008, 03:08 AM

Cool, Deadlokd. Looks like you need to work on transparency. :yup:

Deadlokd · #31 09-03-2008, 09:25 AM

Yup. I used GIMP, but I couldn't make it make the background transparent. Does anyone know how?

I made a rude one too for another forum I'm on. Wanna see? It's definitely NSFW.

JoeP · #32 09-03-2008, 12:32 PM

In The GIMP ...
Get the select by colour tool (right click > Select > By color, or Shift-O)
Click anywhere in the white background
Hit delete (or Edit > Clear)
Select the next layer in the layer palette, and select this layer's white background, and delete
You might need to add an alpha channel to the bottom ('background') layer

Then export as a GIF animation, which you obv know how to do

Watser? · #33 09-03-2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Deadlokd

Yup. I used GIMP, but I couldn't make it make the background transparent. Does anyone know how?

I made a rude one too for another forum I'm on. Wanna see? It's definitely NSFW.

Ensign Steve · #34 09-03-2008, 05:01 PM

I love the animation in the rude one. Excellent job!

Deadlokd · #35 09-03-2008, 09:22 PM

Thanks Joe. I'm very new to this, as in I downloaded GIMP two days ago. So, can you tell me what an alpha channel is? I've seen it there, but no comprende senor.

JoeP · #36 09-04-2008, 07:51 AM

There's probably a better explanation, but ...

Images are made up of arrays of pixels. (Even "vector" images, once they're rendered.)

Each pixel has a red, green and blue component. Since you can extract all the red from an image, and display or manipulate it separately, it makes sense to call it a channel. Each component is typically an 8 bit value, but could be more or less.

The one thing that's missing from this is the ability to describe transparency. That's where the alpha channel comes in - it's another component, another value for each pixel of the image. This allows parts of an image to have different levels of transparency, including partial transparency. Which is very cool. Except that JPEGs don't support transparency and GIFs don't support partial transparency - PNGs are the way to go.

And since each layer in an image editing program is effectively an image, you can use alpha channels (in each layer), or masks, to control how much of the lower layers you see.