My New Flag Design

[Ridley Grainne]

Hello.
I spent the past few days learning Gimp 2.
I finally made a pattern that I am happy with, and i'm wanting to get it put in the game for my personal use.

First, I want to get your opinions!

[Sadet]

Nice work, looks good! My only suggestion would be that you might want to brighten the colors a little bit. This isn't required for approval, just a personal opinion. The game tends to dull flag design colors a little bit once they get in game.

[Ridley Grainne]

I was thinking about that too...But I was kinda aiming for the "Ye Old" kinda look. So dull is excellent for me.

Also, thank you for your flag tutorial! It took me almost an hour to figure everything out, using the tutorial, but you saved me days of work!

[Sadet]

Awesome! Do I need to update it?

Also, colored fabrics tend to lighten rather than darken when exposed to sun and weather.

[Ridley Grainne]

Yes, well. It's much lighter than it was in it's previous stages of making. I also made another flag that has a little bit more of a complex design, and weathered a bit better.

Also, I just put a version of sails into reviewing. I have a tad bit of aliasing that I don't know how to get rid of, any ideas? I worked on this in 1500 scale, then scaled it down.

[kitwilliams]

A cheat for aliasing is to throw a gaussian blur of 1 on it. That just softens the whole design.

[Ridley Grainne]

Wow, that made a huge difference. Thank you!
I think that it is ready to submit for voting, would you agree? Have any other suggestions, or anything that needs to be fixed?

[Sadet]

Nope, looks stellar!

P.S. Do I need to update the GIMP tutorial or is it still pretty current with the latest version of GIMP?

[Ridley Grainne]

It's still pretty up-to-date, except some of the things on the newest version of GIMP. There are a few things though, instead of there being 4 windows on GIMP it's been compacted to 3, and some of the tools are easier to use/get to then what was described.

Overall, it's more than 85% the same.

[Sadet]

Ok, thanks for the info. It sounds like an update may be in order when I get the time.