New Comic Book Theme!

Zenjiro

I've recently make a small break through that might allow me to show how to get a near accurate recreation of @TMNTturtlguy's Comic Newsprint filter, in GIMP, that is used to give the comics there texture/feel. Right now I am just playing around with it but, it is completely possible to do. More to come.

My current method is okay, but it has its issues. This new one should be a better method

...and now I have more work to do, with redoing all the comics I have already made.

Edit: May have spoke to soon. Hit some snags. But I will keep tinkering with it and post a tutorial on how to do the Newsprint filter once I get it looking right.

Zenjiro

Small update from me. I have merged the 3.2-Beta into the master branch. https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook

I will probably not abandon this project for a long while, but development will be sporadic, since I am the only one working on it. Help is always appreciated. It will be slow, but any errors, or issue anyone posts in the github I will make a priority to address.

Thanks to everyone who supports and uses this theme!

Zenjiro

I have added over 30+ tickets to my fork's issue tracker to show all the themes/collections, and ideas I have planned for the future. If anyone wishes to tackle any of them, or add suggestions, and other ideas feel free to. https://github.com/Zenjir0/es-theme-ComicBook/issues

salor10

@Zenjiro I see you put my images in naomi and atomis, thanks a lot.

Zenjiro

@salor10 You're welcome. And anyone who submits any content to this project, I will be sure to include and give credit in the Thank You section of the Readme, as well as in the changelog for the theme that was supplied.

Ecks

I would love to see one as a vertical scrolling because i like the theme but i love more vertical scrolling theme's.

Zenjiro

@Ecks Simple enough to do. Just go into the comic_book.xml file change the carousel settings to the following:

<carousel name="systemcarousel">
	<type>vertical</type>
	<color>eeeeeecc</color>
	<logoScale>1.5</logoScale>
	<maxLogoCount>1</maxLogoCount>
</carousel>

Ecks

@Zenjiro Thanks but for vertical styles i like one's like Royal_Primicia which i would of loved to see that type of style with this theme.

salor10

@Zenjiro, what is the config for the filter newspaper you use in GIMP? I want to create some systems and want to be uniform.

Zenjiro

@salor10 So there are actually 2 that I am playing with. The big issue is that GIMP is moving away from the one I am using and it is not available in the newer default GIMP install. There might actually be a way to get the same effect with the newer version but I have not tinkered with it much.

You can get the older plugins from here

You want to be using the "Gear/Old" Newsprint distort, and not the "GEGL/New" version.

All of my themes I have added I need to redo. So I am going to suggest what I will be doing moving forward, which is nearly identical to what all the other themes already use. These are pretty much the settings @pjft suggested here with the exception of cell size being 6 instead of 5.

Make a duplicate layer of the image(s) you wish to apply the newsprint filter to
Select the duplicated layer you just created, be sure it is layered on top of your original.
Filters > Distorts > Newsprint
Set cell size to 6
Choose Separate to RGB
Set each color (Red, Green, and Blue) to an angle of 15.0 degrees
Set Antialiasing Oversampling to 15 (max)
Press OK to apply
Change the Opacity of the Newsprinted Layer to your desired level (I use anything between 5-10%)

Then be sure once you are finished, to scale the image down to 1280x720p and change the DPI from 300 to 72. Then you are ready to export.

If you wish for me to add your finished product to my branch I recommend providing the RAW .xcf file and I can ensure it is applied/finalized correctly before merging it in.

Hope this helps, can't wait to see what the community can produce!

salor10

@Zenjiro Really it's a geat help . I make a openbor theme images.

salor10

Openbor System.

Bannerlogo

Comic_rip

Comic

If you want i will send to you the masters.

Zenjiro

@salor10 Awesome job!

If you want i will send to you the masters.

Entirely up to you, if you want me to add it to my branch I will need them. I will be sure to credit you for the contribution.

Clyde

@salor10 Those look really great, though I have one little suggestion for improvement of the Beats of Rage picture. The picture in the middle right is oviously stretched which makes the characters look out of proportion and "fat". I would recommend to find a fitting one that doesn't need stretching. 🧐

salor10

@Zenjiro you copy them into:

C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\

I will try.

salor10

I remake system. more colors according.

salor10

I do it for ZXSpectrum, the original i don't like so much.

KazeOne

How do we go about making new system images? is there a template we can use? or do we submit a request?

I need to make system images for:
Atomiswave
Naomi
Neo-Geo CD

Thank you for such an amazing theme, it is still my all time favorite theme, absolutely love it.

KazeOne

@salor10 said in New Comic Book Theme!:

I remake system. more colors according.

[Openbor image]

How do I add this image to the theme? can you point me to the instructions, I am brand new at this and appreciate the help. Thank you.

Zenjiro

@KazeOne I have those themes in my fork

I also made a post that might answer some of your questions.

I still plan on adding, and doing more stuff for this theme, but currently lack the motivation to do it, as I am actually playing some the games in my back log now, and been thinking about getting into streaming.

If anyone does want a particular theme or edit request just submit a ticket on github and I will priorities those.