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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2018, 03:39:27 am »
I am sorry this took me so long! I did a bunch of graphic design work for a client's social media this week, and it reminded me of this. I've made composites of your photos to go on your computer desktop, Facebook, and Twitter. I did some very light blurring at the image seams to make it less jarring to see the photos together, and I did some moderate color correction to emphasize that it's two different images. I've also included the raw composite so that you can do your own editing if you'd like. The important thing is that you get those dimensions to the same size I set them at. (Social media networks are always changing this, but it'll work at least for now!)

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2018, 02:26:42 am »
And fuck me for forgetting all about this.

Sorry. Been a few crazy weeks for me. Still, I failed to deliver.

Good job, Lord J!

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2018, 01:11:53 pm »
Oh they are beautiful! Thank you Lord J!

Boo, it's ok, I completely understand! I do have to teach myself to do stuff like this, eventually. I need to get me some Photoshop and Illustrator again when I have the money!

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2018, 11:07:02 pm »
You are welcome, Nadia! And no sweat, Boo.

As for buying graphics editing software, I use Paint.NET and it's totally free. I actually like it very well. I'm not a professional graphic designer in that I sell designs to others, but I do my own graphic design work for my various projects and personal larks and Paint.NET has been plenty powerful enough to handle my editing needs over the years.

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2018, 01:57:49 am »
There's also GIMP. It's sort of a freeware version of Adobe Photoshop.

Back in college I did a graphic design minor, and I was pretty fluent in Photoshop. I still have some of my chops, by switched from Apple to PC and no longer have access to the disk/program. Unless, of course, I emulate an older version of OSX, which I don't do. :)

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2018, 03:01:47 am »
I've used the GIMP, but I've heard good things about Paint.Net too.

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Re: Banner and/or Wallpaper Help?
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2018, 05:20:42 pm »
I've used the GIMP, but I've heard good things about Paint.Net too.

Same but opposite! I've heard good things about GIMP, though I use Paint.NET.