Belated Album Cover Meme!
Monday, 2 March 2009 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightNicked 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...
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...
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Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 07:56 pm (UTC)I don't use GIMP, as I can't work out what else you need to download to make it work on Macs. I've got Photoshop but never use it, as all the training sessions I've had on it have gone in one ear and out the other *g*.
I'm very fond of http://www.picnik.com/
It's easy to use, is free, and I've had OK results with it.
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Date: Monday, 2 March 2009 10:50 pm (UTC)I'm lousy with Photoshop too - had it for ages and never got much further than putting text on images. Oh, and I worked out that transparency thing at one point, though I might have forgotten it! I'm reeeeeally basic... *g* On the other hand, I can't twirl text to make it go down the side of an image in Paint, which is all I've got now (although, hmmmn - I just had a wonder about a possible way of doing that, just then!) and I'm ever hopeful that I might one day be able to come up with slightly better banners than I have done so far... Mind you, I suspect talent has alot to do with that too... *sighs*
Hmmn - shall have a look at picnik too, cheers! *g*