Thread: Token making
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April 4th, 2006, 21:14 #1Crusader
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Token making
What do you guy suse to make the tokens? I've tried doing it in paint but when i try to make round tokens it always gives me those white bits around the corner.
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April 4th, 2006, 21:45 #2Grand Templar
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The question is what type of graphics programs are available to you? I've used photoshop and edited exisiting ones in fireworks. There are free programs out there that I'm sure people can point you to, but I'm not as familiar with them.
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April 4th, 2006, 22:24 #3Patriarch
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I do transparencies in GIMP. I also use round tokens.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come to pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. . ."
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April 4th, 2006, 22:40 #4Templar
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I use paintshop pro to make mine.
The original art I snag from the Wizards art gallery.
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April 5th, 2006, 00:54 #5Patriarch
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Token Tool
Originally Posted by Kipol
https://rptools.net/doku.php?id=tokentool:intro
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April 5th, 2006, 05:13 #6Immortal
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I also use Token Tool though I made some smaller rings which better match my map size squares. I used the GIMP for a paint program but it is like using a shotgun to kill mosquitos for me. I only use if for dealing with the alpha channel. If I don't have to deal with transparencies, I use Paint and IrfanView, but you need to use transparencies for round tokens.
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April 5th, 2006, 15:19 #7Zealot
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To be honest I find Powerpoint 2003 to be an excellent method for making maps, tokens, potraits, whatever. You can insert almost any picture into a slide, crop it however you want, then right click on it to save just the graphic as a JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BITMAP, or EWMF. Then make an object of anysize you want. Use the fill method and select the previously cropped image as the background and it will fill the object to the edges. Then you can modify it however you want (add overlays, text description, put a colored border around it, etc.), group it all together, and then rick click again and save the object as another picture directly into the appropriate FG folder. Done!
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April 5th, 2006, 20:45 #8Crusader
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Thanks, it took me a while to figure out GIMP but i finally got it working. My PCs now have personal tokens
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April 5th, 2006, 20:47 #9Crusader
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Also, i do'nt think the downloads work there. I keep getting errors. Originally Posted by nezzir
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April 5th, 2006, 21:38 #10Patriarch
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Use the links on the left. Originally Posted by Kipol
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come to pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. . ."
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