How to add screen tones in the Gimp
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This is what the Gimp looks like. This is my Gimp installed with screentones already there. So this is what it should look like after installing the patterns. |
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I'm assuming you already have the Gimp installed. To make patterns show up, you must have the extension with a .pat at the end. For example you can download my patterns that I found here. Or you can make your own pattern in the Gimp! Let me show you how to install a pattern.
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Hello, I was trying to learn how to do tones on gimp and happened to find your page. I find that you're website
is very interesting, but the links to the toning downloads that you have provided do not work. So I looked up for another website and found http://shounenaigo.comicgenesis.com/tone/ . Then I thought that If I chose one of the tones in this website, like this one for example, http://shounenaigo.comicgenesis.com/tone/d-pixed/8.gif , and saved it as .pat at the end in the gimps pattern folder. But the Icon picture that it showed when I saved it onto the patterns folder only showed a picture of the gimp mascot dog guy (it didn't show the foot like it your examples.) I just thought that maybe mine was different from yours so I continued to go on. But, when I clicked the pattern box I couldn't find the pattern that I had saved. Can you please help me? Sorry for my bad writing, but I tried to make it as good as possible.
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Hello Gabe! Sorry about the link, here's the direct link again to the patterns: http://www.kittytreats.org/screentones/
I forgot to renew my domain so maybe that's why it's not working? With the icons, it will look different since we have different versions of OS. The foot that you see on my screen shots are different because I"m using a Desktop called Gnome. You seeing the Mascot dog is great.
I went ahead and downloaded the 8.gif file that you were trying to use. I opened the file in the gimp, then saved it as a .pat file into the location in the screen shot. With the Gimp being open, you can select refresh. In the screen shot you can see the pattern at the top row, 3rd from the left titled 8. It seemed to work for me in Windows 7. Check out the screen shot that I created.
Hope that helps!
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Thank you... T.T
Wow, I don't know what to say.. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I finally have tones!! And I took another big step to be a mangaka!!! I love you thank you thank you!!! xD
Hi Gabe!
So glad to be of help! So what manga are you creating? Do you have a website for it? I'd love to see some of your work! Myself, I ended up not using screen tones for my comic because I'm not that good at it.
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Thanks...This helps me
Thanks...This helps me alot!Thanks again...
Thank you so much! Your page
Thank you so much! Your page helped me a lot in getting me unlost in order to put tones on some of my would be manga pages lol. Thanks again, you rock!
This is great thankyou! And
This is great thankyou! And I looked through the other screen tones but I can't find any shoujo bubble ones...D:
Is there another website that has gimp screentones?
really confused
am really having some troouble but how exactly do you make a patterns folder in GIMP?
Yoiginatsuo
Hello! Check out my conversation with Gabe, I think he's having the same problem. See the screen shot:
http://www.kittytreats.org/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/8_pattern.jpg
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sigh. actually. i need help
sigh. actually. i need help again. basically refresh won't add the patterns. also, when i make a new tab, even if i "dock" it, the next time it opens, it's gone. help, please?
thanks for all those
thanks for all those tones... there's so many... you must have worked hard to make them. i figured out how to save the patterns now, so you don't have to reply to my previous request. thanks, though
i have Gimp 2.6 and i made a
i have Gimp 2.6 and i made a folder for patterns because i didn't hav one. however, i can't find a new tab for the pattrns you put up or what you were talking about. please help. thank you
I don't have the patterns folder.
I use a Mac, and the GIMP program I have doesn't have a file directory specifically for Mac, so I don't have the patterns folder. Is there some way around this problem?
where is the patterns folder
where is the patterns folder located?
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Hello thatguy,
Find out where the gimp folder is installed on your computer. You can also see what I mean in the screenshot below. It won't look exactly like this on your computer. If you don't see a pattern fold inside the gimp folder. Create one and then you can start adding the patterns to it. Hope that helps!
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thanks but...
thank you for this but im having a difficulty with the ".pat" thing. i have Gimp downloaded already but i dont quite understand what you mean by the extention file. i dont know if its because i dont have the .pat but i cant seem to figure out how to import the patterns into it. =_=' im kind of technologically impaired...
thankyou.
.pat
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Hi P1! The extension is part of file name. For example if you have the files 1.gif and 2.gif The extension means the .gif part. Microsoft Word uses .doc extension. Photoshop uses .psd extension.
Anyways I have a link on this tuturial where you can download the .pat files. You move those files into the Gimp folder. Inside the gimp folder, there should be a pattern folder. Move all the .pat files into the pattern folder.
If you have your own pattern, just go to "save as" and select .pat.
Hope that helps!
Thank you, this is really
Thank you, this is really helpful and easy to understand!
that helps a whole lot.
that helps a whole lot. Thanks!
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