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Tutorial by Ted Bergeron Scaling an image in GIMP is not easy like Photoshop. There are no handles to grab onto to transform and scale. So here we go. Starting files You’ll need a background image and a character image. A large cityscape image. A character image. I’ll use a potato on a white background so I can easily remove the white and make it transparent. Open GIMP and create a new file 7" wide x 10.5" high Create a layer to paste your background into Add city background Open your city background image Select all and copy (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) Edit ▸ Paste into your working image.

you’re reading…​ Blog Writing for the love of it is back By Alverne Ball Hi, Sorry I’ve been away for a very long time. The truth is my hard drive crashed about a year ago and I lost a lot of info when it came to websites such as this and I couldn’t for the life of me remember how to navigate back to it. I know. It’s a shame that I relied on technology so much.

Blog By Alverne Ball The other day a young creator twittered me a message asking how I started out in making comics. After relating a story where I tried to learn everything I could about the production of comics before jumping in feet first and learning on the go I came to the idea that this entry should be about how to start making comics. Once you’ve got your idea, the job as creator is to either write the tale or find someone that can write it for you.

I’ve been thinking about ways to promote indie comics. Perhaps if we could put together our own "Idol" competition for comics. We could get a lot of publicity for the competitors. It would give us a chance to talk about what we like and what we don’t like. We could establish some minimum requirements. These standards would help define when the aspiring maker was ready to compete. I think it would inspire comic book makers.

Blog By Alverne Ball So I’ve been trying to think about what to write for this blog, which I have no name for, wait, I think I just discovered what it’ll be called. How about "writing for the love of it". So that’s what this blog is going to be called and since this is the first of what I hope will be many let’s start with the inevitable. If you’re going to write comics then you have to first write for the love of it.

If we all work together we can achieve our dreams. So step one has to be what are our dreams? As creators, I think we all want to work on making comics full time. So my first thought is why don’t I get a job as a comic book artist? Well, easier said than done. So I need to build a portfolio. Make some comics. Start showing off my work. Start knocking on big publisher’s doors.

By Ted Bergeron ⋅ December 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment I’ll be making some new images for the website. I’m going to try to make a couple of new header images. These are 965 x 70 pixels. I like the idea of an open comic book. My goal is to come up with some logo that will be used here and on the wiki 135 x 135 pixels. And I want to develop all kinds of buttons and banners that members can link back to us.