Post by iolum on Jan 27, 2006 23:27:45 GMT -5
Quite a few people have been asking me how to make your own mini’s for use with Open Rpg, so here it goes.
1) Copy your pic and make a new document, be sure to set the background as transparent.
2) Now paste your pic. You have 2 options from here based on the pic. If you have a nice clean one with a uniform background like the one I used for this example, this step becomes exceedingly easy. Just select the “Magic Wand Tool” and click on a clear spot in the background. Depending on the picture you will have to tweak the tolerance, but 15 usually works good for most pics.
Now if you don’t have a cooperative picture, ones with a gradient or multi colored background, the process becomes tedious. Select the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” and draw a selection around the parts of the picture that you need. Zooming in close makes this easier and also gives it a smoother border when you finally are done.
3) Depending on the pic, I sometimes like to shave off 1 or 2 extra pixels from the border once I have selected it. To do it, just go to select-expand-1px and delete. This often reduces the “white” edges of the picture. Another technique is to select-smooth 1-2px and then Delete. In this case, none of that was required, so I just hit delete.
4) The last thing I do is crop the pic, just select a rough area of the part you need, image-crop. Leaving the mini in this state often results in the “jagged brighter color border syndrome”. So just adding a 1px black border around the mini makes it look so much better. Just double click the mini’s layer, select stroke, change the color to black and size to 1px.
5) Last thing, resize the image, image-image size or Alt+Ctr+I ( I usually use 80px height) and save it Shft+Ctr+S as a .png or .gif file. Upload it to a image host like photobucket or on to your server and your done.
1) Copy your pic and make a new document, be sure to set the background as transparent.
2) Now paste your pic. You have 2 options from here based on the pic. If you have a nice clean one with a uniform background like the one I used for this example, this step becomes exceedingly easy. Just select the “Magic Wand Tool” and click on a clear spot in the background. Depending on the picture you will have to tweak the tolerance, but 15 usually works good for most pics.
Now if you don’t have a cooperative picture, ones with a gradient or multi colored background, the process becomes tedious. Select the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” and draw a selection around the parts of the picture that you need. Zooming in close makes this easier and also gives it a smoother border when you finally are done.
3) Depending on the pic, I sometimes like to shave off 1 or 2 extra pixels from the border once I have selected it. To do it, just go to select-expand-1px and delete. This often reduces the “white” edges of the picture. Another technique is to select-smooth 1-2px and then Delete. In this case, none of that was required, so I just hit delete.
4) The last thing I do is crop the pic, just select a rough area of the part you need, image-crop. Leaving the mini in this state often results in the “jagged brighter color border syndrome”. So just adding a 1px black border around the mini makes it look so much better. Just double click the mini’s layer, select stroke, change the color to black and size to 1px.
5) Last thing, resize the image, image-image size or Alt+Ctr+I ( I usually use 80px height) and save it Shft+Ctr+S as a .png or .gif file. Upload it to a image host like photobucket or on to your server and your done.
