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====== Basic game image editing with GIMP ====== | ====== Basic game image editing with GIMP ====== | ||
- | Here is a guide to using GIMP, an open source image editing program, | + | Here is a guide to using [[http:// |
- | GIMP may or may not be the best tool for doing this. But it's open source (something that's important to me), it's available for all major desktop operating systems, I know it, and it works. | + | GIMP may or may not be the best tool for doing this. It's open source (something that's important to me), it's available for all major desktop operating systems, I know it, and it works. |
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+ | In what follows, I am assuming you are using PNG images for all your image resources. With small changes, everything should apply to other formats as well. | ||
===== Getting GIMP ===== | ===== Getting GIMP ===== | ||
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You've got two choices if you are going to use GIMP on Windows: you can install it as a regular program or you can use the portable version | You've got two choices if you are going to use GIMP on Windows: you can install it as a regular program or you can use the portable version | ||
=== Installing as a regular program === | === Installing as a regular program === | ||
- | - Go to [[http:// | + | - Go to [[http:// |
- | - You may have to scroll down again to find the " | + | - After clicking the link, scroll down again to find the "GIMP for Windows" |
- | - When the download | + | - When the download |
=== Installing as a portable application === | === Installing as a portable application === | ||
- | - Go to http:// | + | - Go to http:// |
- Click the " | - Click the " | ||
- When the download is complete, run the installer, tell it where to put GIMP, and Bob's your uncle. | - When the download is complete, run the installer, tell it where to put GIMP, and Bob's your uncle. | ||
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+ | ==== MacOS ==== | ||
+ | - Go to [[http:// | ||
+ | - After clicking the link, scroll down again to find the "GIMP for Mac OS X" section. In the "GIMP for Mac OS X" section, follow the instructions in the " | ||
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+ | ==== Linux ==== | ||
+ | - Go to [[http:// | ||
+ | - Follow the instruction under "GIMP for Unix-like systems" | ||
+ | ===== Converting images to PNG ===== | ||
+ | - Open the image you want to convert in GIMP. | ||
+ | - Go to //File > Export ...// and in the resulting dialog: | ||
+ | - Be sure //Select File Type// is set to //(By Extension)// | ||
+ | - Enter '' | ||
+ | - To save changes you have made to a PNG file, go to //File > Export to myImage.png// | ||
+ | ===== Cropping images ===== | ||
+ | Often times an image will have extra borders or padding around it that you won't want. (It will make sprites larger than they need to be--which will affect collisions and other things. | ||
basic_game_image_editing_with_gimp.txt · Last modified: 2014/03/29 04:57 by mithat