Crucifix
Hi all, new member here.
Was an avid gamer years ago, started on basic D&D, moved on to advanced and second edition. Did Traveller and COC and a bit of Aliens.
As an oldie I've decided to jump back in again and bought this program. Loving at the mo and I think my first campaign will be COC 'the haunting'.
I want to use CC3+ to generate or re generate the maps for The Haunting. To that end I need some crucifix symbols, I've tried using the symbol manager but when I import a PNG and try to use it the symbol has a big white border around it and I can't figure out how to isolate just the symbol itself. Can anyone help in how to do this (I'm using Paint) or point me towards some symbols I can use?
Was an avid gamer years ago, started on basic D&D, moved on to advanced and second edition. Did Traveller and COC and a bit of Aliens.
As an oldie I've decided to jump back in again and bought this program. Loving at the mo and I think my first campaign will be COC 'the haunting'.
I want to use CC3+ to generate or re generate the maps for The Haunting. To that end I need some crucifix symbols, I've tried using the symbol manager but when I import a PNG and try to use it the symbol has a big white border around it and I can't figure out how to isolate just the symbol itself. Can anyone help in how to do this (I'm using Paint) or point me towards some symbols I can use?
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The other option is to tell CC3+ to make a certain color transparent when importing. If you click the Bitmap options button when you are in the import png's dialog, you can control transparency. If you set it to use the upper left corner, that means that all pixels with that color will be transparent. This will probably work fine for something drawn in paint, but be aware that it will only do that EXACT color, which is a big problem if your image has been antialiased, since that usually means colors are blended around the border of the actual symbol, usually resulting in a light or dark halo, because the pixels are a slightly different color.
http://www.online-image-editor.com/
Yep, that did it, brill thanks.
I tried Gimp but it's fiendish difficult!
If you want an easier to use program to do simple stuff, take a look at Photoshop Elements (not the full Photoshop, which is $700+, IIRC). It has some very smart tools to select various pieces of the image to delete, then save as a PNG. There's still a bit of a learning curve, but it's much shallower than GIMP.
(And if you do digital photography, it's the way to go unless you want to spend a lot more money.)
So I've got a question for those of you using Gimp. Do you need a plug in to change the background of a piece of art into a transparent background when you are using Gimp or is there something built into the program to do so? I haven't been able to find anything in the program that works for that so any help is very appreciated.
Thank you Monsen!
This is a link to a video on YouTube
It does go rattling on a bit towards the end about stuff that isn't really all that relevant to CC3 symbol making, but it covers the main methods you can use without getting too technical about the whole thing with masks and what have you.