Image Editing

Eradan · #1 July 16th, 2003, 06:46 AM

I hope this is the right thread. I have a question about modding, but it's pretty basic so the regular modding thread didn't seem like the right place for it. I've been playing SE4 off and on for about a year, and about a month ago I started gathering images for a mod I want to do. Now, even I know the experienced modders usually paint their own shipsets, but I don't have an artistic bone in my body so I'm gathering my images from the Web. I'm begining to have enough but they're all kinds of irregular sizes. My Windows XP can turn the jpg and gif files into bmps but it can't change sizes or cut images up. So my really basic question is:
Whats a good image editing program I can use to shape them into the standard 128 by 128 format that SE4 uses? Preferably one available in a (free)trial format, if you know of one...
Thanks, Eradan

Will · #2 July 16th, 2003, 08:09 AM

Could try out the GIMP. Completely free.

the GIMP {link}

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 July 16th, 2003, 09:08 AM

hi. welcome to the Boards.

do you want toast?

Erax · #4 July 16th, 2003, 09:14 PM

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MSPaint will do for simple cropping and cut&paste work.

For rebalancing levels, stretching, rotating, etc you will need something fancier.

Photo Editor will perform those tasks.

Rojero · #5 July 17th, 2003, 01:15 AM

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hi. welcome to the Boards.

do you want toast?

I would like scrambled eggs and bacon too!

Suicide Junkie · #6 July 17th, 2003, 01:39 AM

MSPaint will do for simple cropping and cut&paste work.

For rebalancing levels, stretching, rotating, etc you will need something fancier.

General Woundwort · #7 July 17th, 2003, 01:43 AM

Windows XP has several photo-editing packages in the mix (at least the Version on my HP desktop does) that are good complements to working in Paint. Try right-clicking on an image file, go to "Open with..." and see what software packages show up.

EDIT - BTW, you don't want that toast. Trust me...

[ July 16, 2003, 12:44: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

Eradan · #8 July 17th, 2003, 07:47 AM

Thanks everybody. I tried the GIMP thing this afternoon and it seems to be working out OK. It's from something called "The Free Software Library" so I won't have to pay anything. You can't crop images with GIMP, but apparently people are encouraged to mod it, so my guess is there is a free add-on or mod or whatever, that will give me that ability too. Which actually, when you think about it, makes this program a pretty good complement to SE4; maybe there should be a regular link to it somewheres...

Dare I ask: What's on the toast?

Eradan

Taera · #9 July 17th, 2003, 09:29 AM

you dont want to know...

edit: where the toast comes from anyways? i mean, some book or show i dont know about???

[ July 17, 2003, 08:30: Message edited by: Taera ]

Jack Simth · #10 July 17th, 2003, 09:33 AM

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Originally posted by Taera:
where the toast comes from anyways? i mean, some book or show i dont know about???

A toaster on a show: Red Dwarf.