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 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*