General Questions Thread

[Sephi]

Originally Posted by Zaku Hyuga

Is there an image editing program that will allow me to do something like cut out one of these girls perfectly around her without cutting part of her off or cutting part of the rest of the picture with here, so that all I'll have is the girl?

Spoiler for big pic:

Yes plenty of them, one of the most known would be Adobe Photoshop. You can find tutorials about it here. Part C.

[Zaku Hyuga]

Originally Posted by Sephi

Yes plenty of them, one of the most known would be Adobe Photoshop. You can find tutorials about it here. Part C.

Well do you know of a free one? I'm not exactly loaded with money, lol

[Sephi]

Originally Posted by Zaku Hyuga

Well do you know of a free one? I'm not exactly loaded with money, lol

Ah free. It wasn't mentioned it in your post, so i didn't thought it was a requirement.
GIMP would do than. I don't have it myself. Nor have i ever used it. But a quick google shows me that it has:
1. Pen tool
2. Lasso tool

So it should be able to make renders(extractions) to.

[felix]

Or you could use Paint.NET

[Kagedanji]

Is there any reason to why a certain character in Kekkaishi looks a lot like Heihachi Mishima? Homage? Nod? Liscensing?

[-KarumA-]

Originally Posted by Kagedanji

Is there any reason to why a certain character in Kekkaishi looks a lot like Heihachi Mishima? Homage? Nod? Liscensing?

not really i think that the haircut, hair ont he sides with a bald head, is more of a stereotype for an old man.. i guess that is why they used it..
and it fits his personality as well

[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by Sephi

Ah free. It wasn't mentioned it in your post, so i didn't thought it was a requirement. GIMP would do than.

The GIMP is an excellent piece of "open-source" software. The lasso tool works the same way the one in Photoshop does for "smart" cutting of objects. It's also quite easy to use if you want to make animated GIFs. Finally, it's totally cross-platform with binaries available for Windows, Linux, and OS X.

[Bekki]

Does anybody have vBulletin? I'm computer-illiterate and I really don't know how to install it. Please.

[felix]

Not on me, but I know it. Your troubles?...

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Bekki

Does anybody have vBulletin? I'm computer-illiterate and I really don't know how to install it. Please.

If you need help installing software, please create a new thread to ask in the Tech Support Forum.

[LR2]

How does the animesuki forums banner rotation work?

[NoSanninWa]

It picks a random number and displays that banner.

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

It picks a random number and displays that banner.

It gives a bit of a priority to the 3 winners of the competition, right?

[NoSanninWa]

Yes. The banners are weighted such that some banners display on a range of random numbers.

[-KarumA-]

i was wondering about something..
the student council president Milly in code geass is always called kaicho or taicho...
as well as numerous other characters through out anime series
which of the two is the correct word for something like that? kaicho or taicho
i googled both words in a sentence and both appear frequently while a online dictionary i use has the translation of captain with taicho... so confusing...

[tripperazn]

Kaicho is correct. From Japanese 会長 (kaichou) and 生徒会 (seitokai), notice the two "kai"s in those words, with "cho" meaning roughly leader. "Taichou" is the military rank of captain, I believe.

[Zaku Hyuga]

What is the best file type to save a picture as to keep the image quality high but the file size low?

[Avantoe]

I probably dont have any clue at all, but id say Jpeg :O

[Rembr]

Originally Posted by Zaku Hyuga

What is the best file type to save a picture as to keep the image quality high but the file size low?

I like .eps, unless the picture is raster.

[Tsuyoshi]

Originally Posted by Zaku Hyuga

What is the best file type to save a picture as to keep the image quality high but the file size low?

I always save my sigs on PNG format.