I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but have you tried look at Home of the Nutty's caps? You can find them here.

Hope this helps!

~Wunder

joy93: Welcome to NW! In answer to your question, if you look in this thread posted by Gymfan, you should be able to upload your sig.

Hope that helps!

~Wunder

Oh THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! That helped me alot!!!! Know i can use all those GREAT signitures you guys make!!!

hi im kinda new at GIMP so any tips help. but i do have a question.
how do i get an avatar on here? do i put it on photobucket?

Hi iamgeorgiestwin!

There are several ways to upload an avatar onto here.

You could upload it first into Photobucket. (Signing up to it is totally free and you get lots of storage). After you've signed up, upload the image and just copy the code underneath the image and paste it into the code box on here.

You can also just simply upload it onto here directly from your computer. (Which I believe is what you have already done.)

Hope this clears things up.

Yes it does thanks a lot Aurora.
by the way i love ur name its really pretty.

Now i have another one. Whenever i shrink something down to size and zoom in so i can see it better it shows up all pixely. Help?

I've always had problems zooming in too Hopefully someone else can give you a better answer, but I always crop or shrink the image in word or paint, than copy and paste it to gimp. I know its not what you're looking for, but at least its a temporary fix.
I hope someone else can be of more help.

Now i have another one. Whenever i shrink something down to size and zoom in so i can see it better it shows up all pixely. Help?

Sorry, but that's not something that can be fixed. It's not something wrong with your program, it's just the way Gimp (or any graphics program) works. See, when you scale an image down, it has fewer pixels, therefore when you zoom in closer the image looks pixely.

Make sense?

--- flambeau

Ok thanks for the help. I didnt think there was anything i could really do anyway. I just wanted to be sure.

I'm trying to stretch myself and grow as a graphics artist, do you all have any suggestions on how to do this?
Maybe you remember something that's been a help to you?
Thank you!

Does anyone know where i can find those new pics of georgie like my sig? i cant find them!!

okay so never mind about that i found them so its all good. but i have a different question. in the tutorials they mention frequently about filling a layer with like #ffffff or something like that. (this is on GIMP by the way) i dont how to do that or what that even means. can anyone help??

I'm trying to stretch myself and grow as a graphics artist, do you all have any suggestions on how to do this?
Maybe you remember something that's been a help to you?
Thank you!

I find looking at other people's artwork tends to give me some inspiration and ideas on what my next icon will look like. Also, trying out their tutorials or just experimenting in GIMP/ your graphics program. Growing as a graphics artist takes time so experiment and try different things out and you will learn and definitely become a better graphics artist.

okay so never mind about that i found them so its all good. but i have a different question. in the tutorials they mention frequently about filling a layer with like #ffffff or something like that. (this is on GIMP by the way) i dont how to do that or what that even means. can anyone help??

It means colouring in a blank white layer with colour. So for example, if you have a simple 100x100 picture, you would need to make a new layer (usually it's Ctrl N) and you should get some options, such as transparency/white/black etc. I normally choose transparency but it's up to you. Then click on the bucket icon, choose which you would like (say #ffffff) and click on the icon and it should be filled with the chosen colour. You will then need to change the layer from 'Normal' to possibly 'screen' depending on the picture.

Hope this helps.

okay so never mind about that i found them so its all good. but i have a different question. in the tutorials they mention frequently about filling a layer with like #ffffff or something like that. (this is on GIMP by the way) i dont how to do that or what that even means. can anyone help??

I tend to understand better with images, so this is for you (and others who are visual like me).

Okay, I'm starting with this image of Georgie.

The tutorial may say "add a layer of ffffff" (ffffff is white) but in my case I'm going to use the example of "add a layer of 05112f and set it to screen at 49% opacity."

Now let's add a new layer. Go to Layer>New Layer.

Now another box should pop up. Make sure that transparent is selected. Click "ok."

After you do that, this is what your layers palette should look like.

Now go to your toolbox. Find the button with a paint bucket on it and click on it.

Now find the two squares overlapping each other and double click on the top square.

This box should pop up. This is how you choose different colors.

To get whatever color the tutorial asks for, type in your number or number/letter combination in the white box next to "html notation." So I typed in "05112f" and pressed enter. You can see that this is a dark blue color

Then click "ok." Take the bucket and go over your image. Then right click. The image should be all blue now.

Go to your layers palette. Make sure your new layer (blue) is selected. See where it says mode? There is a drop-down box. Select whatever mode the tutorial asks for. In my case, it is screen. It also said to set it to 49% opacity. So go to the opacity and move the button until it says 49.0 or you can just type it in. Voila!

I hope that's clear enough for you. Let me know if you have any questions.

~Wunder

thank you very much both of you! that helped a ton!

I have absolutely no idea how to use Gimp, but I installed it because I'd really enjoy making graphics. Could I have some very basic help, anyone?
I know how to get the image up, how to crop it, but not really anything else . .

Hey, Elanor! My first suggestion would be to just go through and read some of the tutorials posted in the tutorial thread and the questions answered in here---there are a LOT of great graphic makers who have posted really helpful tutorials in here and you can learn a lot just by reading some and trying them out (I know I did ).
My second suggestion would be to just start fiddling around with some of the features on Gimp. I've gotten a better idea of what things do because of playing around with them, but I'll still fiddle around a lot, just trying to see what looks best with different layers and such. Don't be afraid to just try every feature on one layer or something---if worse comes to worse, there's the undo button.
Thirdly, don't be afraid to ask questions if a specific feature or tool has you stumped. Chances are, someone here knows how to use it (if not, it's probably not worth using ), and they'd be more than happy to tell you how it works.

That all said, I went through and made a kind-of-tutorial with a few of the basic things I do on some of my graphics, trying to be pretty thorough. Hopefully that will give you some reference points and a place to start from. Please let me know if you have any questions or are confused by something---I've never written a tutorial before, so hopefully it's relatively easy to get through.

Have fun learning to work with graphics!