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Post by jeffgeorge on May 25, 2018 12:52:43 GMT -9
I've just posted the second of my tutorials on using GIMP to mod the 2D cardstock minis in your collection at my papercraft gaming blog, Print and Play Gamer. The first tutorial, PnPG How-To: Format Miniatures in a PDF, teaches you how to collect existing minis from several different PDF files, and assemble them into a new, single-sheet PDF for printing. The second tutorial, PnPG How-To: Recolor Printable Miniatures with GIMP, shows you my method for recoloring cardstock miniatures. Although I used David Okum's free Where No Man Has Gone Before minis from onemonk.com in the tutorial, it's the same technique I used to create all of the recolors I've showcased here at Cardboard Warriors, in the Mobs of Mods thread. Please drop by the blog, enjoy the content, and leave a comment. I hope you find the tutorials useful!
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Post by senkosmos on May 31, 2018 1:50:25 GMT -9
Hi Jeff! Both tutorials are amazing and very easy to follow. Though I work at a print shop, my go to software is Inkscape, I'm quite GIMP impaired, yet I could easily do everything you say. Realy simple and effective! And using GIMP and not Photoshop is a great idea too!
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Post by jeffgeorge on May 31, 2018 4:29:12 GMT -9
Hi Jeff! Both tutorials are amazing and very easy to follow. Though I work at a print shop, my go to software is Inkscape, I'm quite GIMP impaired, yet I could easily do everything you say. Realy simple and effective! And using GIMP and not Photoshop is a great idea too! Thanks! I'm never sure if I'm over-explaining, but I wanted to show every single step along the way. I suspect that if someone is already a little GIMP savvy, they could get everything I'm teaching just from the screenshots--which is fine with me. It's not that I have anything against Photoshop, I just can't justify the monthly subscription fee. I used Photoshop 5.5 for more than a decade, and it did what I needed, but it didn't get along with Windows 10. When that happened, I just bit the bullet and learned to use GIMP. I've long suspected that Adobe's pricing model is self-defeating, with price-points so high that many users are driven to alternatives (or pirated copies), but they didn't ask me. I have Inkscape, but I haven't learned to use it. I'm sure that some of what I do would be better done in Inkscape than GIMP, but so far, it's always been easier in the short term to hack it out in GIMP than to learn a whole other application. Anyway, thanks for your comment. And keep checking back at PnPG...there will be more tutorials among the new content going up in the next couple of weeks.
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Post by okumarts on May 31, 2018 8:01:14 GMT -9
OH, this is so useful! Thank you!
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Post by jeffgeorge on May 31, 2018 15:37:57 GMT -9
OH, this is so useful! Thank you! That means a lot to me, especially coming from YOU, David. But would you mind saying it there, as a comment? I could really use comments... (Did that sound too desperate? I'm pretty sure it did...) UPDATE, like 10 minutes later: Dude, you are SO fast! Thanks!
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Post by okumarts on May 31, 2018 15:39:53 GMT -9
OH, this is so useful! Thank you! That means a lot to me, especially coming from YOU, David. But would you mind saying it there, as a comment? I could really use comments... (Did that sound too desperate? I'm pretty sure it did...) Will do... I also shared this on Facebook and people have commented that your method is so much better than what they've been doing. This is why I've made sure to keep my releases without locks and security passwords...
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Post by jeffgeorge on May 31, 2018 15:54:46 GMT -9
I also shared this on Facebook and people have commented that your method is so much better than what they've been doing. This is why I've made sure to keep my releases without locks and security passwords... I noticed some Facebook referrals coming in on my SEO reports for the firs time today, and I don't Facebook, so I wondered where they were coming from. Now I know! Thanks! Now that I've committed to posting meaningful content twice weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays, 6am Eastern US time), the site seems to be picking up steam. Thanks to everyone who's dropping by, and especially to anyone who's spreading the word to their own online communities! By the way, tomorrow morning's post is a long look at one of my most favorite OSR zines and campaign settings, Wormskin. Check it out with your morning coffee!
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Post by lightning on May 31, 2018 21:42:17 GMT -9
Well done!
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