Hi Guys,
Thanks for all the responses by the way. It was a great help and great suggestions. I did manage getting it to work, at least in principle (I wont know until I get back to work next week). As for the strip divisions, I found that whatever image I used I looked first at image property's. This gave me the pixel width. Depending on what size i needed each stripe to be (say 10 pixels wide) I just scaled the image to something that would work ie. 1000 pixels and it would be able to shred the image in a nice even number. Oddly, the image its self isn't that important unless its totally ruined by scaling, but the pixel width is - in fact I have to work out how many pixels wide each strip is to be first, then scale the image into something that can be shredded correctly.
Quite impressed with Gimp, looks like a free version of photoshop which is just as capable. Hats off to anyone who is involved in its upkeep. I was looking to see if there was a couple of training videos on it, and naturally there is - effing loads! So, rather than start on a potentially awful tutorial I thought I would ask you guys. For someone starting at zero and heading for hero, what tutorial(s) would you recommend?
Thanks for all the responses by the way. It was a great help and great suggestions. I did manage getting it to work, at least in principle (I wont know until I get back to work next week). As for the strip divisions, I found that whatever image I used I looked first at image property's. This gave me the pixel width. Depending on what size i needed each stripe to be (say 10 pixels wide) I just scaled the image to something that would work ie. 1000 pixels and it would be able to shred the image in a nice even number. Oddly, the image its self isn't that important unless its totally ruined by scaling, but the pixel width is - in fact I have to work out how many pixels wide each strip is to be first, then scale the image into something that can be shredded correctly.
Quite impressed with Gimp, looks like a free version of photoshop which is just as capable. Hats off to anyone who is involved in its upkeep. I was looking to see if there was a couple of training videos on it, and naturally there is - effing loads! So, rather than start on a potentially awful tutorial I thought I would ask you guys. For someone starting at zero and heading for hero, what tutorial(s) would you recommend?