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BAMA'S SUPER EASY CUTOUT TUTORIALâ„¢ "So Easy, Even I Can Do Them!" This tutorial is for users using The GIMP which can be found somewhere online. Photoshoppers can probably use this too, while they gloat (or while they [Ross GLOAD] (yes I know i'm lame)) about having 600 bucks to spend on software. Anyways... We're going to use an Hi-Res image of Chase Utley found on CBS Sportsline for this tutorial. Here's the picture: You can download the picture here: http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m212/Th...orial/utley.jpg Now, Open the Image in GIMP. Select the scissors tool with a 10 pt radius, feather edges and anti-aliasing. Anti-Aliasing prevents jagged edges, and feather edges allows the glowing effect around the cutout, along with leaving less jagged edges that look like poor free-hand cutouts. Here's what your toolkit should look like: Using the scissors, select a starting point around Utley. Make sure it borders him. Click that point and let go of the mouse. Now select another nearby point around Utley. If a line connecting 2 points cuts into Utley, manually drag that line to where you want it to be. When you almost return to your starting point, make one last vertex (point/dot) right next to your first one. Now click your first dot/point/vertex. When your mouse hovers over that point, your cursor should change to an arrow with a four-headed arrow. Click that. Now click inside your image (your cursor should now look like scissors). If you did it correctly, your image should be surrounded by a blinking black and white outline like this: If not, start over. (Just click any other tool then the scissors to start over). EDIT: Ok, well not like that, but that's how the image should look before you click inside of it. The yellowish/black-white dotted outline around the whole canvas should take the place (minus the yellow) of the line with dots on it if you do the above correctly. Sorry for any problems this may have caused Now cut or copy the selection (Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C) Now, click file, new, you will see a dialog box. View all the options and select a transparent background. Do not worry about the size, GIMP will automatically generate the correct size: Now paste your image: Next, click Layer and select "Anchor Layer'' to make your image 1 layer. You may have some areas that need cleaning up. For example, between Utley's right arm and his lower torso there's a tan mark (a specator's head). You can't see it in the above picture because I already cleaned it up, but you can here: . To remove it, outline the blob of the guy's head with the scissors, select it, and cut it out, or erase it. Finally, clean up whatever needs to be cleaned up. You should end up with something like this: Save your image as a .psd, .png, or .gif. Congrats! You're done! Guys, as a request, please let me know if this tutorial helped you out. Thanks!

Actually, I found it really easy... I'll post a tutorial really quick

Thanks for the C&C Fastflink. I just noticed that blob too...I think it was because i stretched out utley underneath and used i think it was burn to add the color. Here's the fix: BTW Fastflink, I remember you telling me you were a UT Fan? If so, here's a little gift from a Bama fan:

Thanks for the C&C

Can I get some C&C on my first couple sig attempts? Here they are: EDIT: The Prothro one was my first, and was kinda patterned after a Hernandez one i saw (I think KC Did it). So I guess it can count as plagarism... Thanks in advance! BTW, I used the GIMP to answer someone's question...

Resources I'm open for requests...i'm a noob, so they're more like challenges then anything.

Like a sore Braves fan: "The division is bullshit anyway. You really want the wildcard. And guess what, the Mets aren't going to win it [the wildcard], we are...you guys lose, we win again, Go Braves"

..Echoing what Y4L said about Canadian Coins - It's rare that I get them around here, but when I do, I do to them what I do to the pennies when I find them... I throw them away. ..I can't believe we got rid of Wilson, and I can't believe that all of a sudden the Mets own us. This is bullshit. ...Were only 6.5 games out of the Wildcard...******* great.

It's good but I don't like the font. I find that the problem with all my signatures too (the ones I make) that the fonts usually don't work right

Oh man NYM, YOU are a genius. Thanks so much man

Dom2662, BigJay , and/or NYM, I would be honored to have one of you make me an Andruw Jones sig :wink:

How about a better Andruw Jones sig than the one I have now? (This is a request to anyone who has the time)

For the font, anti-aliasing is your friend. :wink:

That is really swell. What font are you using for Weaver's name?

I'm really sorry to hear that dj. Ditto to what tebjr said about keeping you and your family in my prayers.

...man my stomach and my legs, and my arms hurt...stupid Diabetes. ...I nearly had a heart attack when I looked at the calendar today, 2 weeks until the new semester starts. ...as much as I hate the rain, i want it to rain here so I don't have to go water the grass again. ...friends coming from Ohio this week, can't wait to shove it in their faces that we've got Wickman now and they don't.

where's the list of Home Run Derbyers?

...Cristiano Ronaldo can **** off... ...I'm kinda sad the World Cup is almost over... ...The Office gets better the more you watch it... ...I want to go to the pool so bad, and its only about a 10th of a mile walk, but its so damn hot outside, I don't want to walk...And I don't want to drive either, that would be a waste...

- High School exam review is killing me. Hey dumbass that sits to the left of me...if you don't know what the periodic table is maybe you shouldn't be in AP Chemistry. -I wanted to go watch a Birmingham Barons game last night, but I didn't feel like using gas. -I might start digging for oil underneath my house so I don't have to pay for gas, or even worse... -I might get a job. -****...I just noticed its mother's day. Does Wal-Mart sell flowers? -I hate the RIAA -I hate that punk who stole my baseball bat. Hey buddy, you're not allowed to come up on my front porch whenever you feel like it. Period. Actually, you're not allowed 20 feet near my front porch you little punk. Steal something from me again, I dare you. -Where did I leave those tickets? -Not everyone can write a book. This includes you Jennifer Wilbanks and you Natalee Holloway's dad. Just because something happened in your life doesn't mean that people want to read about it for 24.95. Get over yourselves. -I started playing America's Army with a bunch of my friends so we could anonymously challenge one of our teachers whose obsessed with it. Now, I fear, I might be getting obsessed with it, I know, I'll go outside and hit a baseball...oh wait...that stupid punk took my baseball bat and I don't have the money for gas, nor do I want to dig, *gasp*, I might have to study today.

Wait. Mile High is now Coors? I thought Coors was a totally brand new stadium.

Hey APR, those sigs are tight man, can you make me one with The Braves, Padres, Mavericks, Avalanche, Jaguars, Manchester United, and most importantly the Crimson Tide?