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June 21st, 2010, 05:23 PM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: San Antonio TX
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So after being uber jealous of all of you ladies and your amazing talent I have decided to try my hand at Siggie making. I downloaded Gimp and have spent the day doing the tutorials and I just have to say I had no idea what all went into a siggy! So far i have been doing well with the tutorials and i have downloaded quite a few free kits and to put is nicely...i stink lol I am hoping with time things will get easier  Any tips or advice you have would be GREAT!
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Last edited by Alpha_allie1010; June 21st, 2010 at 07:55 PM.
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June 21st, 2010, 05:38 PM
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frequent flier
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Seattle area, Washington
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 Maybe post some of what you've made here, and we can give you some CC!
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June 21st, 2010, 05:51 PM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Georgia, USA
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Welcome!!!!!  You're daughter is adorable!!!! 
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Heather :-)
Wife to Robert (9.7.05)
Mommy to Rileigh, Gavin, Logan, & Carter!
Thank you to tasha_mae for my adorable siggy!!!!
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June 21st, 2010, 06:03 PM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 34,857
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Ditto what has been said. If you post a siggy/siggies here we can offer some CC. And your baby is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!
Welcome!!!
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June 21st, 2010, 06:13 PM
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bless your heart
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: the South East USA
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Welcome! I agree with the others, post what you've made and will give you some tips. And your daughter is gorgeous! I loved playing with her picture.
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June 21st, 2010, 06:34 PM
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♥KaLeNe♥
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I'm Kalene
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Thank you Heather mom2*Lauryn*Jacob* for the most gorgeous siggy!!
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June 21st, 2010, 06:55 PM
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aka Heather!
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Location: NY
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June 21st, 2010, 07:01 PM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Canada
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Welcome!!! Agree with the ladies above. Feel free to do challenges and all that, it's fun!
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Julia - Mommy to 3 sweet kids
Natasha - 6.5 Veronika - 5 and Sebastian - 17 months
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June 21st, 2010, 07:51 PM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: San Antonio TX
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ok soo be nice
these are literly the very first ones i have made....
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Thanks Kiliki for my AWESOME siggie!!!
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June 21st, 2010, 07:52 PM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Welcome I'm Kassy!
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June 21st, 2010, 08:01 PM
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bless your heart
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hmmm...
well first they're good for first tries, we all start out like that.
You're cutouts are rather jagged. That's easily fixed by setting the feather on like 1.
You need to add shadows to the elements and cutouts.
Parts of the stuff is cut off which is easily fixed by just shrinking what you use a little so it all fits into your work area.
Also it looks like you added a shadow on the inside of the stroke you used around your text which you really don't need.
I'm not sure how you do all of that in GIMP though so hopefully one of our GIMP gurus will come in and give you some advice.
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June 21st, 2010, 08:02 PM
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Landen's Mommy
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Welcome! I'm Crystal
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Thanks to Yvonne for my GORGEOUS siggy!!
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June 21st, 2010, 08:50 PM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: San Antonio TX
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and i just made this one too
Quote:
Originally Posted by MommaTrish
hmmm...
well first they're good for first tries, we all start out like that.
You're cutouts are rather jagged. That's easily fixed by setting the feather on like 1.
You need to add shadows to the elements and cutouts.
Parts of the stuff is cut off which is easily fixed by just shrinking what you use a little so it all fits into your work area.
Also it looks like you added a shadow on the inside of the stroke you used around your text which you really don't need.
I'm not sure how you do all of that in GIMP though so hopefully one of our GIMP gurus will come in and give you some advice.
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Thanks for the feedback! i never though about putting shadows around the elements.... Yeah i forgot to feather the edges of the first one 
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June 21st, 2010, 09:12 PM
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Welcome...I'm Emma. 
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June 21st, 2010, 10:32 PM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: San Antonio TX
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Thanks Kiliki for my AWESOME siggie!!!
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June 22nd, 2010, 05:51 AM
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Platinum Supermommy
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Location: Canada
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I agree with Trish's CC! They are great first tries!
I will add that you need to make sure your siggies are not wider than 600 pixels. Right now they are 700 and 1024 so they're very wide and JM will shrink them for you so text and everything will be a little blurrier and more pixelated. So make sure to resize them to no wider than 600 pixels. (but resize in your program, not in photobucket!!)
And yep, a small shadow behind your elements, text, etc. would be good. Nothing to dark or too big, just a small greyish shadow. With the pool siggy, I would move the chair down a little so it looks like it's standing on the ground, right now it's kinda floating =)
Can't wait to see more of your stuff!
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Julia - Mommy to 3 sweet kids
Natasha - 6.5 Veronika - 5 and Sebastian - 17 months
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June 22nd, 2010, 06:18 AM
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I have ooodles of IT!!
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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welcome!!
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June 22nd, 2010, 06:54 AM
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life blows sometimes.
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I'm Gwyn! Looks like you are off to a great start, and you have some great CC from the "experts"
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June 22nd, 2010, 07:58 AM
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Mega Super Mommy
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: San Antonio TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Julka
I agree with Trish's CC! They are great first tries!
I will add that you need to make sure your siggies are not wider than 600 pixels. Right now they are 700 and 1024 so they're very wide and JM will shrink them for you so text and everything will be a little blurrier and more pixelated. So make sure to resize them to no wider than 600 pixels. (but resize in your program, not in photobucket!!)
And yep, a small shadow behind your elements, text, etc. would be good. Nothing to dark or too big, just a small greyish shadow. With the pool siggy, I would move the chair down a little so it looks like it's standing on the ground, right now it's kinda floating =)
Can't wait to see more of your stuff!
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Thanks so much for the feedback!
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Thanks Kiliki for my AWESOME siggie!!!
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June 22nd, 2010, 08:12 AM
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Dreams do come true....
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