Jagged Images?

[Emily]

I was wondering if anybody knew a good website that is free photo editing that gives you faded and jagged edges and won't put white under it when you put it was a siggy. You all know how images are box shaped well this is what it does, you have round corners but they fade away from the picture into your color for boards.

Also does anybody know how to get a second background picture but it's a background for your boards and its a background that fills up your logo picture and is your logo picture then fades and is a color that matches then logo and at the bottom is another part of the picuture, here is an example: breakingpointx.proboards.com/index.cgi

[Kami]

For the first - do you have an example?
For the second - done via code :] [coderequests]

[Emily]

Here:

And sorry, sometimes I just don't know if it's coding or graphics but I've seen it before. Since it was a background I thoght it was graphics.

[Emily]

Wait, I thought that it was faded into the boards but it was because the board was black but do you know a website that does that still?

[Kami]

does what. I'm really not sure what you're asking. :S

[Emily]

You see how the edges of the picture is black and faded into the picture. Well do you know a free website that does that?

[Kami]

Website? No. But if you wanted to download GIMP, which is a free image editing software, you could do that. :]

[KELSEY'S GOT A GUN]

You could download GIMP. Or, if you have the money (or your parents do, and are willing to buy it) and you're willing to learn how to use it, you could purchase Photoshop.

[Emily]

I have GIMP but I don't really get how to do any of that stuff! What is the jagged or faded image thing that I have explained called? So that I could find it and do it.

[KELSEY'S GOT A GUN]

This could be helpful...

[Emily]

Thank you, Do you know how to get the bar on a picture and then you can put words on it?

[Kami]

There should be a button in the tool bar with a T on it. Click that, and you'll be able to use text.

[Emily]

I'm not asking for Text I'm asking for a bar that you put text on. Here is an example:

[Kami]

Use the marquee tool (the one that looks like a square) on a new layer, make the out line of the bar -- however long / thin you want it -- and then fill it in with the paint bucket.

If this is your first time using GIMP, I definitely recommend learning how to use the interface. Then I recommend doing some research into GIMP tutorials (more here, here, and here) so that you can learn how the different tools are used to create different effects. That way, if you have questions to post here, we can understand you better if you use the proper names for the tools / can describe the effects better. :]

[Emily]

How do you find the Marquee tool? I can't find it