drakingsonHi:
I am designing a line of t-shirts. I already added text to the image and now want to add some artwork. Doing it myself would take too long so I have decided to just use clip art. But when I try to add clip art by following a tutorial on YouTube, I can't move the clip art. I followed the YouTube tutorial to the letter and re-watched it several times. They suggest going to google images and looking for an image there. Then it is a matter of doing control alt then print screen. Next they state that you must past this image onto windows paint and then cut out the stuff from the image you don't want and then paste what you do want onto gimp. I clicked on edit and then paste and then "as an image". I did this and it does upload the clip art but when I try to move the clip art it does not move. Also the image is now a lot smaller than what it was before. It needs to be bigger so that it looks proportional to the text that I created. Can somebody please help me???
Plenty of problems:
1) understand the difference between bitmap graphics and vector graphics. If you are only using text and some computer graphics using a vector editor such as InkScape may be better.
2) At 7000px your image is huge. I assume you are working at a resolution of 600PPI for a 15" design? Consider that the silk screen is around 50PPI...
3) Most bitmap images you'll find on the web are under 1000px. They will all look small when added to your 7000px image, and you will have to use the scale tool to scale them up. But if you have to scale them up a lot they will be blurry (is it better to have a blurry image at 7000px or a sharp image at 150px? you decide).
4) 95% of Youtube tutorials are made by ignorants and aren't worth the bandwidth.
5) There is nothing you can do in Paint that you cannot do in Gimp (which tells you a lot about the validity of the tutorial). I even suspect that Gimp has better tools to remove the background.
6) When you do a Ctrl-Alt-Printscreen you are merely doing a screenshot, so the image you copy is limited by the size of your screen, or mya be scaled by the browser. It is always better to download the original image file.
7) Your screenshot shows that the active tool is the Text tool. To move things you have to switch ti the Move tool (
). If the layer you move has transparent parts, click/drag on the opaque parts.
8) To adjust the size of layers use the Scale tool (
)
9) If you take copyrighted material from the web (most things you see are copyrighted, at least implicitly), be prepared to hire a lawyer.
I am designing a line of t-shirts. I already added text to the image and now want to add some artwork. Doing it myself would take too long so I have decided to just use clip art. But when I try to add clip art by following a tutorial on YouTube, I can't move the clip art. I followed the YouTube tutorial to the letter and re-watched it several times. They suggest going to google images and looking for an image there. Then it is a matter of doing control alt then print screen. Next they state that you must past this image onto windows paint and then cut out the stuff from the image you don't want and then paste what you do want onto gimp. I clicked on edit and then paste and then "as an image". I did this and it does upload the clip art but when I try to move the clip art it does not move. Also the image is now a lot smaller than what it was before. It needs to be bigger so that it looks proportional to the text that I created. Can somebody please help me???
Plenty of problems:
1) understand the difference between bitmap graphics and vector graphics. If you are only using text and some computer graphics using a vector editor such as InkScape may be better.
2) At 7000px your image is huge. I assume you are working at a resolution of 600PPI for a 15" design? Consider that the silk screen is around 50PPI...
3) Most bitmap images you'll find on the web are under 1000px. They will all look small when added to your 7000px image, and you will have to use the scale tool to scale them up. But if you have to scale them up a lot they will be blurry (is it better to have a blurry image at 7000px or a sharp image at 150px? you decide).
4) 95% of Youtube tutorials are made by ignorants and aren't worth the bandwidth.
5) There is nothing you can do in Paint that you cannot do in Gimp (which tells you a lot about the validity of the tutorial). I even suspect that Gimp has better tools to remove the background.
6) When you do a Ctrl-Alt-Printscreen you are merely doing a screenshot, so the image you copy is limited by the size of your screen, or mya be scaled by the browser. It is always better to download the original image file.
7) Your screenshot shows that the active tool is the Text tool. To move things you have to switch ti the Move tool (
). If the layer you move has transparent parts, click/drag on the opaque parts.8) To adjust the size of layers use the Scale tool (
)9) If you take copyrighted material from the web (most things you see are copyrighted, at least implicitly), be prepared to hire a lawyer.