PainShop Pro Graphics - Re: Checker Blinds

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Re: Checker Blinds - grids

Joske

2006-02-08, 12:22 am

tosime wrote:

> Beautiful Joske.

> Like the way your little mascot peeks over the window with the
> unique blinds.

Nice compliment, thank you.

> What did you figure out about the snap to grid?

Nothing artistic, just numbers (and I am number-blind, so I have to
figure extra hard) :-)

You have an image of 600x600. You have a grid done with the
gridmaker script. Typically it will be a pixel short top and left
outside if you divided the 600x600 into even parts (grid 10x10,
20x20 for instance). The grid lines make for an uneven number.

How do you go about from there if you want all the gridlines to be
there, but wider, equally wide to each other, to all still have
same-sized inner spaces. What are the least and easiest steps.

Selections, Select all, Float, Modify/Expand, Fill will fall partly
outside the canvas. Do you enlarge the canvas first, and with how
many pixels on which sides?

Mayb this will work:

Enlarge the canvas. Do this on the background layer, keep the image
centered.
Go back to the grid layer and duplicate it. Then Flip and Mirror it.
Move the duplicate so it fits.
Merge the grid layers.
Now do the select etc expand on the grid. It can now be filled with
a material to make it look like a framework.
Crop the canvas if needs be - crop to layer opaque is the suitable
choice if your grid lines are well defined in fill.

I'm not saying this is the best or only way, nor that I described it
well... you can't even trust me on numbers :-) But it's all I
remember from puzzling over before turning silly and doing the
image.

Joske

tosime

2006-02-08, 12:22 am

Thanks Joske - You are a tremendous resource!

"Joske" <j.backer@home.nl> wrote in message news:43db7a35_3@cnews...
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> You edited the script, that's clever. This will work just fine with
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> Ah, but that would be cheating, as my goal is to do everything with
> PSP native tools :-) Besides, with the second patch for PSP X I have
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> I think you did very well, and think you should do -and post- more.
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> Colors, I don't think about them much. So probably it's just my
> taste at work, or me imagining other viewers' taste. Underneath are
> my favorite shades. I did this with my Stripomatic script :-) which
> unfortunately I couldn't get to work in 8 because of something about
> the gradient code. The script adds a mix to a picked background and
> foreground color, which is a good way to get some simple hue
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> Joske
> http://members.home.nl/j.backer/str...tripomatic.html
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