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Everything posted by Lhamster
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I still don't get what exactly it's asking?
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I think if i give an answer with a valid reason, I should get the points, even if it's not the answer remaine has. :lol:
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Some of the questions don't make any sense. "How many paints have a special appearance in specific operations?" Wut? "Which paint symbolises a rainy day? * That's a matter of opinion...
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Still haven't managed to do this, was busy with the newspaper yesterday...
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^Just no :lol: I don't like pretty much any American car. British, Italian and German FTW.
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Please discuss the MUs in the official topic. Closed.
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I haven't got round to doing it yet...
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I'm with flae on this one, and the Gallardo, Murcielargo, Aston Martin DBS and V8 Vantage.
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I use a combination of GIMP, PicMonkey, Paint and OpenOffice Draw atm. Downloaded paint.net today too.
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No-ones knows. Closed.
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Nope. :lol: I use it with other things, it can be useful sometimes.
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Who said I wanted to play? You can't just sign me up for something without asking or telling me beforehand.
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This is the song he's covering. I showed him it. :lol:
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Announcement [Issue 14] Main Topic
Lhamster replied to Lhamster in [Issue 14] Main Topic Newspaper Archive
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I think so, a time lapse video of a drawing would look great.
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http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=177128&view=getlastpost If you want to discuss Thunder use this topic. Closed.
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Pointless, closed. Do not reply to troll topics.
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Er, I guess pointless as only one of them is an admin. Closed.
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Guide [Issue 14] How to make the Main Topic
Lhamster replied to Lhamster in [Issue 14] How to make the Main Topic Newspaper Archive
You will have seen the Main Topic that is posted every issue, with excerpts from the articles and clickable pictures, but you may not know how it's made. In this article I will explain how I make it, reveal my secrets, and it's probably not what you expect! I don't have Photoshop, so I use OpenOffice (Free version of Microsoft Word) and Paint, with a little help from GIMP. To start, I open OpenOffice and set up the formatting, using a header for the main title at the top, and splitting the page into 2 columns, for the articles, with a dividing line to mark the middle. I then create the title, with the issue number and month above and a little logo too. I make a list of the article titles and the order I want them in, then paste in the article title and its excerpt one by one and arrange them in the 2 columns, making sure the spacing between the paragraphs is even. I then check to make sure everything is in the correct font, and is the correct size. Once this is all done, I will paste in the background. I put it in twice, with the bottom half flipped vertically, to make sure it matches and then stretch the parts vertically to make them meet. If I go onto a second page, I make sure the background doesn't cover the second unneeded header, so that the bottom of the first page and the top of the second match. I then go into print preview, zoom to 126%, and go full screen. I will then print screen a section of the page and paste it into paint. To slice the MT so it can be made clickable with links to the articles, I simply select the area that I want to be the slice, using the dividing line I put in to make sure the writing is in the middle of the slice, and crop the rest of the screenshot out. I then save the slice as an image, hit Ctrl Z to reverse the crop, and select another slice, crop and save that. I repeat this until I've done all the slicing I can for the section I print screened, and then I screenshot another section and repeat the process. Once this is done, I have my MT in the slices that I need, but they may not all be the same dimensions, which means it won't look smooth on the forum, and some slices may stick out further than others. What I do now is fire up GIMP, and simply resize the slices to make sure they are all the same width, and are the same height as the slice next to it. Once this is done, I have my MT ready to put on the forum, so I upload all the slices and put them in the topic that will have the MT in. The last part of the process is to link all the images to the article that it has on, so when you click it, it takes you to that topic. To do this, we use the code: [url=*topic link*][img=*image link*][/url] So instead of seeing the url, or green clickable text, you see the slice. I then post it, and it's ready for publishing! So, a bit of a strange way to make it, but I had to improvise having no Photoshop, and I'm quite proud of the way I came up with to get it sliced. If you look at the MT I made in Issue 10, you'll see it's all one big picture with no links as I hadn't figured out how to do this yet. Thankfully, I realised how to do it and now you know my secrets of the MT. ;) ~Lham~ -
http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=173971 Dupe Topic, Closed.
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Moved to Forum Games.
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