Okay here is a little intro to GIMP I shall oinly use pics from rebellion to amke it easy for you to find them. Start by opening the default pic of a Y-Wing. You are going to see how easy it is to select precisely in GIMP. In the window that the pic opens in. Look at the bottom left corner. There should be a small button with a square in it. Press it. You will have noticed the pic has gone a kinda red shade. What is shaded in red is what is not selected. Now use the paintbrush and paint in white over the areas that you want to select. See that the picture returns to its original color where you paint. If you make a mistake just use the black color to put some shade back. paint over the Y-Wing using the paintbrush. http://img194.exs.cx/img194/4840/gimptut54zh.th.png Now press the little button on the left hand corner. The shade has gone and the Y-Wings are selected! Copy your selection (Ctrl+C) Now create a new layer by pressing Layers>New layer Select your new layer in the layer menu It should be the one at the top. (BTW the layer meun looks like this http://img194.exs.cx/img194/1729/gimptut27tv.th.png) Now press paste (Ctrl+V) A new layer should appear Now press the little anchor icon at the bottom of the Layer menu. You can now delete the bottom layer. You now have a set a Y-Wings ready to be put into another pic. Proceed to the do the same for the X-Wing pic anf the Tie interceptor Each time once you have finished each one save it in the xcf formet (GIMP format) Now open this pic http://img220.exs.cx/img220/2079/moncalattack9zf.png Its neat but still a bit lame. Why don't we add a few fighters But first lets prepare the pic Do as you did for the fighter pics for the big Tie on the right but this time don't delete the bottom layer. Now paste the x-wings into the pic. I agree. They are a bit too big. click Layers>Scale and size of Layer. Change the size to 150 and 75 Now that the layer is more reasonnable size move it to where it is in the screenshot. http://img229.exs.cx/img229/2091/gimptut93xn.png Idealy the X-Wing should be behind the tie. To give that effect simply click Layers>pile>lower the layer http://img69.exs.cx/img69/9678/gimptut104xz.png There that looks better Proceed the same way for the other fighters and place them where you want. In the end you shouold have a rather cool looking pic. http://img134.exs.cx/img134/1885/moncalattackbis4ns.png Hope this helped you understand this cool program. If you have questions just ask
