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QuestLeader

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From: My house, Va, USA
Registered: 04-20-2005
Hey ppl, I just discovered how good GIMP realli is... and I made a couple of backgrounds with it. These are made for my widescreen laptop, but you may still be able to use them . Here they are:

Hope you like them

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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
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you just know discovered how good it is? it took you that long? just kidding... but... WELCOME TO THE NOT-EVIL DARK SIDE! hey, you and me should collaborate, cuz i've got that whole Flash animated desktop thing, and you like making desktops in GIMP, and you make them good... lol...

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QuestLeader

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Yeah, I could make a base image and you could add active material to it

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" I hat typos..." - gamer4christ
"TROOPER: umm... CyBob and BIL are fighting over whose dead." - Realm Master

buddboy

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lol, good idea... want to? go into MSN sometime soon and we could work on it...

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CPUFreak91

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Weird looking. I like it!

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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
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hey i made this really cool one... so you know quest, how i made it is i did that gradient, with one of the set features, it was a black and white one, in a 420x300 white background, and then i selected all the black, which is now the gray stripes in between the what looks like raised up area... and then i did a Gaussian blur at 100x100 and it did that effect because it was still selected... and then i did the same thing to the raised up area, only i think it was a a lot less so it's not as different... gave it that metal shiny look... lol... i think i might do one of brushed metal lol...

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[This message has been edited by buddboy (edited March 14, 2006).]

QuestLeader

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You should post it here

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" I hat typos..." - gamer4christ
"TROOPER: umm... CyBob and BIL are fighting over whose dead." - Realm Master

goop2

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I layed down some bricks, put down "Grafitiware" and di the color-alpha thing. it looks great, but it wont save with the alpha. Is there another way to get that look?

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buddboy

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lol, i wrote all that and forgot to post it... i was going to edit it, left it open forever and finally got around to it... i edited the post, check it out!

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QuestLeader

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In the attitude of al the spam... I GOT A NEW SIGGY!!!

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A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon.
He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses the Heck out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.

[This message has been edited by questleader (edited March 15, 2006).]

QuestLeader

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fixed... I think...

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A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon.
He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses the Heck out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.

buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
Registered: 10-08-2004
ROFL that sig is funny! did you see the pic?

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QuestLeader

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From: My house, Va, USA
Registered: 04-20-2005
Yeah man, that bg is sweet!

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A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon.
He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses the Heck out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.

QuestLeader

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From: My house, Va, USA
Registered: 04-20-2005
I made another one! I really like this one =D

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goop2

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o me gawsh leik wow!

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Briant

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Hey Questleader and Buddboy,

Those images are great. I'm almost finished writing a screen saver that uses spirals - it's turned out really good and is quite mesmerizing. I would love to use your spiral images, and try my hand at making more (thanks for the tip about gimp!). Let me know if it's OK for me to use your pics, and even if you want to make some more for me.

Brian

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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
Registered: 10-08-2004
WOW!! how'd you do that lol?

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goop2

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thats interesting... Anyone know where to get the screensaver "wormhole"?

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hotmail: Grafitiware@hotmail.com
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QuestLeader

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I would be honored if you used my spirals . If you want a custom one, just give me a general description and color schemes, and I'll make it. Oh, and the way I made that last image... First I rendered a flame and zoomed it in some. Then I created a bump map for it and made it look raised and stuff. After that, I just added some lense flares to the middle of it. I think I used the hidden planet, distant sun, and supernova... or something like that... but yeah, that's four lense flares in the middle

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goop2

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Check this out

[EDIT] Hey cool, if you scroll up and down it looks like its rotating

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Its one of those... Goop... things...
hotmail: Grafitiware@hotmail.com
Yahoo: namerobbedagian

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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
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cool... what do you mean, 'rendered a flame' is that like in Filters or something?
lol...
lol i keep forgetting to answer your question BrianT... i guess it'd be okay with me too... esp. if i get my name in like the credits or something... lol...
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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
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hey... i made this one... it'll probably be resized... because it does that if i put them on photobucket and they're real big... lol...
i rendered a flame... duplicated the layer, set the top layer to overlay i think it was... then, i bumpmapped the top layer with the bottom one, merged the layers, i cut out a little of the color, filled the empty parts with black, filled in all the white with black, duplicated the layer, moved it up and to the right, blurred it with a radius of 10x10, duplicated again, filled it all with red, moved it up a little less than the black blurred one, blurred it 6x6, and then merged all the layers... lol... that was one heckuva long sentence!
here it is:

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buddboy

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From: New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
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hey i made another one... here it is:

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In the stock market, you must buy high and sell low...Wait! That's not right!
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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!