...so I decided to give myself a little exercise to give myself a little GIMP practice, the end result being a teeny tiny bit based on the loading screens thread in Suggestions, the idea being an updated loading screen.
Not exactly AHMAHGAWSH!-awesome or anything, but after three hours of taking high-res screenshots matching the angles of the shots in the original loading screen, trying to find the right fonts, realising GIMP refuses to italicise them unless there's a pre-existing italic version available and having no hope of finding an up-to-date version of the Paragon City map suitable for a 1920x1200 screen, I was kind of getting irritated, but I think the general idea's still a teeny bit visible. That, or I'm kidding myself. My inf's on the latter.
Still, might be nice to improve on it some more, eventually get it to worth-a-flip standard, so some suggestions would be appreciated. I've got the XCF handy still, so changes shouldn't be too much of a prob.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas." Max: "Me too."
how cool would it be that the zone loading screens have info about them. ala tour map.
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I would angle the bottom pic a little more so the statue from the top pic isn't showing. Sure, it creates symmetry, but it also makes the focal point the statue more than anything else.
...so I decided to give myself a little exercise to give myself a little GIMP practice, the end result being a teeny tiny bit based on the loading screens thread in Suggestions, the idea being an updated loading screen.
Not exactly AHMAHGAWSH!-awesome or anything, but after three hours of taking high-res screenshots matching the angles of the shots in the original loading screen, trying to find the right fonts, realising GIMP refuses to italicise them unless there's a pre-existing italic version available and having no hope of finding an up-to-date version of the Paragon City map suitable for a 1920x1200 screen, I was kind of getting irritated, but I think the general idea's still a teeny bit visible. That, or I'm kidding myself. My inf's on the latter.
Still, might be nice to improve on it some more, eventually get it to worth-a-flip standard, so some suggestions would be appreciated. I've got the XCF handy still, so changes shouldn't be too much of a prob.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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