2010/7/8 Matias <matiassu...@gmail.com>: > Sorry for this completely offtopic question. > > I'm a systems administrator with programming experience (mostly python > and C) and I love web applications design/programming and I'm pretty > good with html, javascript, css, etc... but I have a really weak point > when it comes to "images" desing. I mean, I'd love to learn how to do > images like this: > http://www.freecsstemplates.org/previews/solutions/images/img01.gif > > (from the template http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/solutions/) > > I understand the basics, and I use quite frequently Gimp, but this is > not like coding, when you code, most of the times it is easy to > understand what is happenning (except if the code you are reading is > perl :-P ) and thus, you can learn.... but I still can't "read" images I > see out there, so, I guess there should be any learning path for this > also or maybe is that just the creative half of my brain is missing. > > Would you recommend any book? any website? or some other way to learn to > do "nice 3d looking menus, buttons"..etc? > > Thanks for your help, and sorry for the offtopic, but I didn't find a > better place to ask this. (didn't look for a lot also...) >
I understand completely what you mean and I have felt the same way at times. It just takes some practice, but once you "get it" it's really simple. (Note that I'm not a GIMP pro by any means.) The image you linked can e.g. easily be created using the following steps: 1. On the background layer create a gradient from gray to white. 2. Create a new layer. 3. On the new layer create a completely white box - select rectangle and fill with white. 4. Create yet another layer. 5. On the new layer select a smaller rectangle and fill it with a gradient which goes from green to lighter green. 6. Create a new layer with the green stuff at the top. I know that this is not what you were asking for, but I hope this helped you understand something new. :) -- Deniz Dogan _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
