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Extra banananana rations that ape! A nice addition to the Oookliverse ;)
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:) Why thank ye kindly sir!

I think I'm starting to get the hang of GIMP and would struggle back in M$-World and PSPro - which was my previous image package of choice.

Work on it BIG has become my new philosophy - I worked on this one at 768x1536 so the mistakes and blemishes disappeared when I scaled down. Makes my earlier efforts (such as Bee & Qoo) where I worked directly on the 256x128 image look positively crude by comparison (although still capture the "feel" of the oxp and the Ooniverse I hope!)
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Still playing with "Haulers" - I do have a long term plan - I'm using the ads to "set the scene".

As this one made Drew spray coffee onto his keyboard when he read it in the "large "Haulers" " thread - I thought it might deserve an official outing.

Turns out turning "Store" into "Star" was a complete nightmare given what turned out to be some fairly complex cross shading going on in the background - I became a bit of a whizz with the old "clone" brush! (Still not happy with the gap between "Star" and "-" but it was proving troublesome to fix and it's late and I've got work in the morning and I wanted it done...

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While I haven't posted much here in a little while, I'm back with two new advertisements!

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Also, nice ad! About the whole cross shading thing, I'm thinking it'd be easier to make a green rectangle over the original, shade/gradient the heck out of it, and just use a nice font over it.
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@Stromboli - nice ads - just where did the gun come from?!

Re: Oodie Stoobart ad - I hear what you're saying about the plain green rectangle - but as you will see from my other ads if it's based on RL then I try to be exacting as possible - I'm cleaning it up now I think I've found a clever way of doing it in GIMP - so there may well be a v2 of the ad...

GIMP doesn't actually seem to have that many nice fonts - does anybody know where I could get/add some more? (Linux/Ubuntu)
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Well, I'm not sure how it'd work on linux, but www.dafont.com is where I get all of my fonts.

The gun is a toy ray gun, and I just painted on the space-suit sleeve.
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
I'm cleaning it up now I think I've found a clever way of doing it in GIMP - so there may well be a v2 of the ad...
Any chance of sharing GIMP tips for fellow users who are still learning and discovering too?
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GIMP doesn't actually seem to have that many nice fonts - does anybody know where I could get/add some more? (Linux/Ubuntu)
Doesn't it use the fonts on your machine? There are many sites which give away (or sell) fonts, such as the one above. Your search engine of choice is the key here ;)
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That’s not a nice font, that’s Arial Black. :-)

This or this might help.
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Ah. Nice new ones.

My favorite must the brown ale.

But also good to see some new inputs in politics and hand- (/tentacle- /claw-) guns.

34 to go!

PS. I like Arial Black - and Times New Roman :)

After way too many Noocearso Brown Ales you might even hear me say, that Comic Sans i beautiful :roll:
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@Dr. Nil :) Thank ye kindly

@Ahruman - thanks - I 'fess I cannot identify a font simply by looking at it!

@Thargoid - Re: GIMP - happy to share what little knowledge I have gleamed by trial and error!
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
@Ahruman - thanks - I 'fess I cannot identify a font simply by looking at it!
It’s a curse, I tell you. So horribly, horribly distracting. :-)
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For lots of free fonts, I find http://www.1001freefonts.com/ a good site. Maybe not quite 1001 -- although I've not counted -- but they are free and there's a Sci Fi subsection, too...
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Nice one Disembodied!
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D'oh! They're for Windows and Macs - anybody know how/if I can can incorporate these into Ubuntu?
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I think there might be issues with using Mac fonts with Ubuntu, but apparently you can incorporate Windows fonts -- at least, according to information here. I have to say I'm not remotely qualified to judge whether this information is useful or not, though!
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