[360]

I have seen people wanting to make things like Gimp user and stuff like that, well I'llshow you how.

>Open gimp up choose a size i used 350x19
>Find a pic of what you use and make it your background ill use this

>Now the fun part paste your pic into your background (ctrl+v)
It should look something like this
>Now here is a little hard part find a good text and insert it into a new layer And do a basic 2 (Script-fu>Alpha to logo>BasicII) Now make the background and text color match and there you go



Yea i know my tut is useless

[fencepost]

No, it's not useless. It has the potential to be a great tutorial with just some minor tweaks.

First of all, instead of telling your readers what they'll be making, show them. Give them the final product up front.

I liked your approach of using an existing background to create the User Bar base. It's very colorful and is something that's easily obtained. Unfortunately, the graphic is too small to cover the width of the user bar. I didn't realize until just now that the area under the words Firefox User are actually part of the user bar. So, either cut/paste/blend other parts of the original background into that user bar layer to make it look like it's all one -OR- bucket fill the white space with an appropriate color -OR- choose a new graphic. I'd go with the cut/paste/blend option, but that's me.

Tell your readers how to accomplish selecting an area of the image. For example, you didn't tell them to use the rectangle selection tool.

Next, adjust the Firefox User text to fit within the bounds of the User Bar. The shadows extend beyond the edges of the graphic. That's a no-no!

Stroke the outside with a one-pixel stroke. It's a nice touch.

That'd be all that I would do, but you could add a elliptical highlight to the top or maybe a diagonal line pattern to the image.

I have one recommendation for you: Try incorporating a few of my suggestions into your tutorial before you move on to another and it will be a success!

Art

[sherry]

using a pixel font is good for those kinds of sigs. and all caps is good for those sigs aswell.

[/--rtichoke]

i've always wondered about those 'user' banners.
is there some format to follow?

[sighello]

Nice tut 360, keep it up your tuts make sense i've seen much much worse tuts



Thanks,
Sighello

[PsychoticAmber]

:P yuh mines the worst of them all...
But this tut wouldnt suit me cause i dont really like ripping parts out of images x.x i like them whole! or atleast see the important parts :P

[Ibizzle]

I frickin` Love this! Thanks 360. *Clap Clap* :w:

[Nihilus]

try adding a 1-2px border

[GimpKnowHow.]

/-\rtichoke said:

i've always wondered about those 'user' banners.
is there some format to follow?

No, lol there is no real format, but userbars are generally defined by long, narrow images, usually with a pattern overlay and a render/stock on it. Pixel fonts are used quite often as well.