adiomino Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 My question is.. does it really take photoshop to put transparent gifs on the avatars we draw? Becauuse.. I thought i heard of other ways. Eh.. Photoshop is expensive too isn't it? meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutler121 Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 [quote name='adiomino' timestamp='1297743224' post='78874'] My question is.. does it really take photoshop to put transparent gifs on the avatars we draw? Becauuse.. I thought i heard of other ways. Eh.. Photoshop is expensive too isn't it? meh [/quote] I use CorelDraw but that is even more expensive (unless you live in Thailand its only about 3$ US here). Cutler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiomino Posted February 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Darn.. Thanks cutler. I suppose i won't be able to turn in my avatars after all xDD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apophys Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 I use GIMP. It's free. [url="http://www.gimp.org/"]http://www.gimp.org/[/url] Sharazhad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rendril Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 [quote name='adiomino' timestamp='1297745032' post='78876'] Darn.. Thanks cutler. I suppose i won't be able to turn in my avatars after all xDD [/quote] Gimp is free. Just search for other programs, I think paintshop is still around too. You can also get a trial version of photoshop that lasts 30 days which is free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyphis the Bard Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 And of course, you can find a friend (either in RL or MD) who has one of these programs and get their assistance, if you can't locate a suitable program (although Gimp is pretty damn good) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonUngernSternberg Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 For simple conversion to transparent gif there are also many on-line applications. Try to type "transparent gif online" in Google and you'll find several links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrthilian Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 paint.net also does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiomino Posted February 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Ah yay! Thank you guys. I'll definitely be using one of those then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrieg Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Could someone write a brief instruction on how to prepare avatar using gimp from raw scan/ photo file with basic tricks (which filters, what should be paid attention to)? It seems many decent quality drawings may be trasnformed to dismal quality avatars; some would not even take a pencil after a few conversion atempts. Such a public MD resource could only help to get more original graphics in game; I think when someone decide to draw something for MD, MD-requirement digitilizing should not be a major obstacle. (I have just spent a few hours doing that - alpha conversion and resize kept killing any quality I managed to put on paper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFH Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 If anyone needs help with avy transparency, resizing, etc. Send me the pic and I'll fix it for you. (I see many people are having trouble with that so that's why I'm offering my help) adiomino, xrieg and Luke27 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaya Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 (edited) a small tutorial on how to use gimp to create a good transparent avy: first you should take all color out of the picture: Image > Mode > Grayscale Image > Mode > RGB and now we're going to start making it transparent: Colors > Color to Alpha set the background color to RGB = 241.239.214 or Hex #F1EFD6 Filters > Web > Semi-Flatten and save it as a .gif file, select Convert to Indexed using default settings (You can convert to indexed before you save, it's up to you) and you're done don't forget to scale you're image to 100 x 160 px and credits for the semi-flatten go to ravenstrider Edited February 20, 2011 by samon Pipstickz and apophys 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apophys Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Semi-flatten will remove the transparency; I've tried it. Here's a full tutorial, from raw file to upload quality: [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/9102-avatar-tutorial-for-windows/"]link[/url]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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