Any of you graphic geniuses...

[femkes_follies]

does anybody regularly use GIMP and know how to do a scalloped border without doing it Dot by Dot, then cropping it in half?

I can't find a menu in GIMP that allows a painted swath with spacing between the dots, like Photoshop seems to do.

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[alysten.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately PS is my tool of choice. Sorry.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Undoubtedly the more user-friendly, feature-rich program. But outside the budget just now. :-(

Most of the custom brushes, etc. work in GIMP these days. But I can't find a nice, scalloped border.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

How wide of a scalloped border do you want? Colors, etc.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

OK, Let me try that again.
There are other ways to get borders besides creating them yourself dot by dot, I just need to know what size, shape and color.

For instance, I can take any image off of this page or this one or this one or any other one, and run it through Inkscape to create a png or jpg in any size or color.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

?

Do you just set the background color to Alpha channel and then reset the color for the image?

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Aha! I've located Inkscape.

Yeah, that's a good notion. I can probably work something up there, then import it into my page design in GIMP.

Thanks!

Any other favorite sources for page "chrome" images?

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

The key with Inkscape is to crop your image so you're just tracing the paths of the part you want, not the whole page.

There are TONS of typography books on archive.org and lots of good stuff on Wikimedia Commons, so it really depends on the theme and style you're going for. A steampunk page will obviously be different than a SCA research page.

Fonts are fun too

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I've been playing with the @font-face selector in CSS.

I guess I'm not all that interested in making it scream "period." I just want it clean and classy.

*g* Don't get me started on the steampunk idea - I'll get all distracted.

How do you select an image? Can you somehow "print" the page to a file? Or can you select off the image if you view in .pdf? The page I'm looking at looks to be running a script and I can't just "snag" tidbits.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Is the page on Archive.org? While viewing the book using Read Online, most of the time you can Zoom in to 50%, right click Save As, type in a name without file extension and it saves as a jpg.