Can anyone point me to an easy to use program to generate parcchment/scroll type images that can be typed in in a variety of fonts and can also have images such as screen shots placed within?, must be able to be a simple copying to forum posts for others to read.
I've seen many people use them but have never really felt a need to use such things until now.
Can someone point me to some fairly easy to use ones?
Parchment Templates.
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*Ceremorph
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*Lost and not Found
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GIMP is a good program, and free.
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.gimp.org/
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*WhenWizardsWar
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Gimp is to confuseing and i cant even remotely close to the background im looking for and the other links are just pictures unless theres a way to write on them?
Thank you for your help though! Im hopeing to eventually find what im looking for
Thank you for your help though! Im hopeing to eventually find what im looking for
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*Lost and not Found
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Lost's guide how to make fancy scrolls with the help of Google and Gimp:
1: Find a picture of a scroll.
2: Right click the picture with your mouse and choose copy.
3: Open Gimp.
4: Move your mouse to "Edit": then proceed to "Paste As": and finally "New image". Or, you could simply hit the following keys: "Swift + Ctrl + V".
5: Now you should take a look at your tool box.
6: Find the bolded letter "A".
7: Draw a square on top of the picture.
8: You can change the font size and font in the tool box.
9: If you did it correctly, you should have a new window in which you can type the text.
10: You can change the shape of the box by; moving the mouse cursor near the edge of the square, pressing down the left mouse button, and moving the mouse around. The mouse cursor needs to be inside the box.
Once you get hang of it, easy as a goblin pie.
"Image -> Scale Image" is another handy tool.
1: Find a picture of a scroll.
2: Right click the picture with your mouse and choose copy.
3: Open Gimp.
4: Move your mouse to "Edit": then proceed to "Paste As": and finally "New image". Or, you could simply hit the following keys: "Swift + Ctrl + V".
5: Now you should take a look at your tool box.
6: Find the bolded letter "A".
7: Draw a square on top of the picture.
8: You can change the font size and font in the tool box.
9: If you did it correctly, you should have a new window in which you can type the text.
10: You can change the shape of the box by; moving the mouse cursor near the edge of the square, pressing down the left mouse button, and moving the mouse around. The mouse cursor needs to be inside the box.
Once you get hang of it, easy as a goblin pie.
"Image -> Scale Image" is another handy tool.
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*WhenWizardsWar
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Thank you!.
I spent hours fiddling with it, tried to get a picture up top but it kept dissapearing so i had to place it on the bottom, and the pictures abit blurry which happens when you scale things but I am still very pleased with the finished product!.
Check out the new harmonium recruitment poster!
I spent hours fiddling with it, tried to get a picture up top but it kept dissapearing so i had to place it on the bottom, and the pictures abit blurry which happens when you scale things but I am still very pleased with the finished product!.
Check out the new harmonium recruitment poster!