Oolite Bulletins

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!)

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...

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





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.

@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)

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.

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?

DaddyHoggy wrote:

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

That’s not a nice font, that’s Arial Black. :-)

This or this might help.

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

@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!

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. :-)

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...

Nice one Disembodied!

D'oh! They're for Windows and Macs - anybody know how/if I can can incorporate these into Ubuntu?

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!