Comments on: Tutorial: The Gimp

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:42:20 +0000

Then probably XCF and PNG, if you don’t mind saving in two formats. Just know that a file saved in XCF might not open correctly in a different version of The GIMP.

By: jack

jack — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:31:50 +0000

my question was if i would be able to modify it afterwards as if it was the first time. i mean what is the best format to save to if i want to continue the project and whats the one if i m finnished.
if for those two questions it is a different format, the best solution when you finish a project would be to have the project in both formats in case you want to modigy it sometime in the future?

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:56:15 +0000

@jack,

You could do a several different things with this. You could create a new image for each planet, then you could save each one (on a transparent background) for later use in another project, if needed. Or you could just merge the layers as you get done with each planet to keep the layers to a manageable amount.

Ideally tt would be nice to do this in a vector drawing tool (like Inkscape) and save it as an SVG, but I don’t know if some of the “clouding” stuff would be available then. The Gimp developers don’t recommend saving to the XCF format because it changes often (it is mostly for internal use), but that might be your only option to be able to save the layers.

If you are just worried about losing quality then you could just save as PNG.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:02:41 +0000

i also wanna ask something else, when i save it as an jpeg there is a small quality loss. so if i want it as a jpg but i may modify it sometime in the future, i should save it also as a xcf?

By: jack

jack — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:17:40 +0000

great tutorial man!
when i make the other planets do i make new layers for each one? i mean for 10 planets i ll need 20 layers…

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:23:45 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately the GIMP can be a little difficult to learn. Especially if you don’t have any experience with graphics programs.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:04:56 +0000

Finally an easy to understand tutorial. I am a beginner with GIMP, it’s making me sweat sometimes

thanks,
Jasmine

By: Tony Steele

Tony Steele — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:18:35 +0000

Hi Grant

I find Gimp very difficult but could follow this tutorial. So thanks.

Tony