Belated Album Cover Meme!

[byslantedlight]

Nicked from everyone who did this last week - I did it on Friday too, cos fun meme, but I didn't get a chance to post that day, and of course since I'd done it at work... in my break, obviously. Like now. *g*

1 - Go to a random wikipedia article — The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations" — The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr's "explore the last seven days" — Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop, MS Paint, or similar to put it all together.
5 - Post it with this text.



So... does anyone out there use GIMP instead of Photoshop or whatever? I've just found out that it's a free downloadable thingie, and thought I might - has anyone tried it? What d'you reckon to it? It's on all the computers here at work, and I used it for this, and it seems quite good...

Comments

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

I've used GIMP, before a co-worker gave me their older PS, and it could do a lot of advanced stuff, but it was really hard to find out *how* to do it. I spent hours searching the net for answers, and usually found them, but it was a bit tedious.
Come to think, I have to do similar things with PS, because their help file isn't all that enlightening, either, in many cases.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hmmn - I tend to struggle on even the basic stuff, so I probably won't get as far as that advanced stuff anyway... *g* I can never figure out PS in fact, which is why I'm still struggling with either - I have a low battle-tedium threshold, I think! *g* So maybe there's not much in it between PS and GIMP... I'm thinking of MS Word and OpenOffice, the latter of which I'm using now - I love the shareware principle of it, but there's so much that just completely throws me, or doesn't quite seem to work yet, so I wondered if it might be a bit like that... Maybe I'll just cross fingers and jump! *g* Thanks!

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

GIMP and PS are hard to figure out (imo), especially for occasional use. So, definitely a battle ground! :D
There are so many hidden functions they don't even mention in their help file, and if I don't use the program for a couple of weeks, I've forgotten all the tricks I learned, except the basics.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

and if I don't use the program for a couple of weeks, I've forgotten all the tricks I learned, except the basics
Eeep! Yes! I know just what you mean!