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Creating your own spray
SpookiDate: Sunday, 2009-06-14, 04:08 | Message # 1
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Ever seen someone with a customized spray? Sick of your own ripped picture from google?

Then post your tips and secrets here and share with your fellow zombie hunters :P

I'll give a brief intro for anyone who is completely in the dark on this one.

Step One:

Graphics editing program.

Well, you could use mspaint if you wanted something that looks like a 7 year old has drawn it.

OR you could use Gimp. This program is free, and avalible from your best friend, google.

Once you have downloaded Gimp, extract it and install. This should only take a few minutes (Depending on the speed of your PC)

Ok, now you have a half decent graphics manipulation program. Now its time to create your spray.

You can either start from scratch and design your own spray if your good at art and that sort of thing. Or you can do it the cheaters way and rip a picture off google. MAKE SURE YOUR NOT BREAKING ANY COPYRIGHT LAWS WHEN YOU DO THIS! I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYONE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT LAWS!

Step Two:

Ok, so lets say you have drawn / downloaded your pic. Now you need to open it in Gimp. Do so.

Yea, that looks good eh? but its a little bland. How about some text to liven it up abit?

Try this site: http://cooltext.com/

Its self explanatory - Choose a style and change the colours etc to your liking.

Ok, now at the bottom of the screen you should see File Format. I would advise you setting this to JPG.

Now click render logo and wait a sec. Once this is done, right click on your banner / text at the top of the screen and save as. Place this somewhere you'll remember.

Great, now you have a picture and some text. Lets combine them.

Open your original picture in GIMP. Then goto File - Open - Your Text.jpg

Step Three:

Now you'll have 2 windows, one with your picture in and one with your text in. Make sure the window with your text is selected and press CTRL + A (To Select All) Then do CTRL + C (To Copy).

Now highlight your picture window and press CTRL + V

Combined! But it looks rough, how about some transparency?

Position your text to where you want it to be, you should see that just your text is highlighted and you can move it.

Once you have it in position, right click on the text (Thats inside your picture) and goto Layer - Transparency - Colour to Alpha

Select your colour range and your done!

Save this as what ever you like then import into CS:S

Hope this has helped a few people out. Feel free to make your own comments and add anything you like to this.

Peace all, happy huntin.



Message edited by Spooki - Sunday, 2009-06-14, 04:09
 
lokiDate: Sunday, 2009-06-14, 10:54 | Message # 2
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biggrin yay youve actually put this in a way that even i can understand wootwoot...have always wondered how to do this so thnx heaps spooki biggrin

 
SpookiDate: Sunday, 2009-06-14, 13:19 | Message # 3
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np at all loki smile

 
noexitDate: Sunday, 2009-06-14, 18:01 | Message # 4
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hehe... allready know this but it's good that u post this kind of stuff for everyone else biggrin thank you spooki biggrin



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SpookiDate: Monday, 2009-06-15, 12:13 | Message # 5
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No probs boss, anything to help me mates out.

 
lokiDate: Monday, 2009-06-15, 23:32 | Message # 6
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biggrin aww yr a really sound bloke m8 XD biggrin

 
PhorcysDate: Tuesday, 2009-06-16, 16:07 | Message # 7
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It's quite easy to make a custom spray.

However, To make it 100% unique you gotta make the graphics by yourself. A perfect program for that is Photoshop CS(1-4).

HINT : You can get the best results in .TGA format. CSS is optimized for that format(it also holds transparancy).

 
noexitDate: Tuesday, 2009-06-16, 16:41 | Message # 8
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ooh.. TGA format biggrin that was great to know..



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MaijDate: Tuesday, 2009-06-16, 17:03 | Message # 9
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I agree with roy, photoshop is what I know best for this.



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noexitDate: Sunday, 2009-06-21, 04:47 | Message # 10
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oh okok biggrin it would be cool if u made a banner for zfh biggrin



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SpookiDate: Monday, 2009-07-06, 13:02 | Message # 11
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Quote (Phorcys)
It's quite easy to make a custom spray.

However, To make it 100% unique you gotta make the graphics by yourself. A perfect program for that is Photoshop CS(1-4).

HINT : You can get the best results in .TGA format. CSS is optimized for that format(it also holds transparancy).

yeah thats all good if you know what your doing with photoshop, and thats even if you got photoshop. My guide was for people new to creating images. Ive tryed using photoshop and found it confuzing. Its also uber huge and you have to download it illegaly to avoid the hideous costs. GIMP is free and lightweight and simple. Thats why i used it in my guide.

 
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