BB ... you learned so quick! Your work is terrific. You'll have to clue me in on your secret!
Any ideas on how I can learn GIMP better? I tried to put the pieces of the map together, like in cheezyfries example .. I couldn't get it to work!
I'm so sorry I didn't answer this. I haven't had much time to be on the forums lately and am just now seeing it. I hope you've figured it out now, but if not, just drop me a pm and I'll send you one that's already done and ready for edits.
My image editing experience was a 2 hour course on how to make animated GIFs about 12 years ago. lol I've never used GIMP before this, but had heard of it when I was searching for freeware alternatives to "name brand" programs. I wasn't even looking for image editors at the time.
My mom is an artist and my brothers seem to have her artistic talent, though I've never thought I did. It seems when it comes to tiny little dots, I'm not nearly as scared of messing up as I am when it's pen or paint and paper or canvas.
I think working on our lil peeps tiny scale helps a lot too because small errors just don't show up and you don't have to be detailed with what you draw.
I mess up and mess up and mess up until I finally get something that resembles what I'm looking for. Seriously, that's how I'm learning. What Lewanda and Lyssaria said about picturing the idea in your mind - that's exactly what I do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Once I had the idea I was going to put stacked ball topiaries on either side of the front door. I worked and worked making those things just right. Then pasted them into my map only to find they completely hid the plants and things in the office and laundry room and I couldn't even use them. lol I could give you dozens of examples of failures!! But when something finally works out the way you had it pictured, it's all worth it.
If you're determined, you'll get it. Best of luck to you!
Lyssaria, I love the doberman! I finally bought a cat for one family too. I'll have to take a look at the new mods you all have posted and decide which to install.
Miss you all!