How to?

[Geo]

...Or [Ctrl]a and paste the whole thing into Paint>make the alterations>[Ctrl]a and paste the lot back into IrfanView>save.  That worked with PhotoShop, anyway...

Haven't tried that...

But I don't understand. In the olden days somehow I managed to work on files in Paint, and somehow converted them back to .pcx format and they showed just fine.

[Buster's Uncle]

That was several machines and OSes ago, I bet.  Stuff's upgraded on you, and doesn't work the same.  It's happened to me.

[Geo]

Blasted! Doesn't work either. 

And the file size increased thrice as well using this method!

[Buster's Uncle]

GIMP has a steep learning curve, but isn't bad once you know how.  You'll love being able to do all the color manipulation; that's what eventually lured me to the dark side.

An' don't worry; I've talked a lot of people through this.  You'll do fine.

[Geo]

Do you use version 2.8.6?

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

[Buster's Uncle]

2.6.11

The only important difference from the version I've got should be that they make you jump through an extra hoop -export- during the save process.  My mom has a recent version, so I can run to her room and check stuff, if that proves a problem.

You're very clever.  You'll do fine.

[Geo]

You're very clever.  You'll do fine.

Your trust is heartbreaking, but unfounded.

15 minutes work, and I accomplished more then in the whole last week. That feels stupid.

Now I only need to finetune space just around the ship, adjust a bit of the starscape and its done.
Unless of course there's an option to paste the ship in the pic while the background stays visible?

[Buster's Uncle]

Having a look now.

[Geo]

No rush. I'm going to bed now. It's almost morning here.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is done w/ GIMP? 

Not taking my word for stuff is not necessarily a sign of stupidity - unless it's an area of my expertise and you keep doing it.

Looks good - the smudges around the ship are easily darkened. 

However, your title?  "Sid Meier's Alien Tau Ceti A Brian Reynolds design" is a little strange.  Maybe drop the "Alien" come up w/ a Tau Ceti stand-alone logo and make it A Geomodder Design?

[Geo]

This is done w/ GIMP?

With Gimp, yes. Simple copy/paste work. I could even use parts of earlier attempts, although the complete old files that black out in SMACX.

The "Alien" part is there for a reason.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay; TAU CETI could still be a bit bigger -about equal to ALIEN, I should think- and fit in the space.  Too much between TAU and CETI, IMO.

[Buster's Uncle]

Also?  A thought related to your first question here - I understand that it's easy to copy your SMAC(X) directory to a thumb/flash drive, and play it on any computer directly from that drive.  Strikes me as something possibly useful to you...

[Geo]

Also?  A thought related to your first question here - I understand that it's easy to copy your SMAC(X) directory to a thumb/flash drive, and play it on any computer directly from that drive.

Good. Means I can take ovef your computer if I'm evef in the neighbourhood. 

Okay; TAU CETI could still be a bit bigger -about equal to ALIEN, I should think- and fit in the space.  Too much between TAU and CETI, IMO.

Funny you say that. The Tau Ceti part is as big as the former Crossfire part it replaces.
I'll work on this screen again later. For the moment it serves its purpose, namely showing I'm in the right mod.

[Buster's Uncle]

Let me know if you're "evef" in the neighborhood; I'll make pizza.  (I was acclaimed the Pizza God in college, so that's a good thing.)

For what the opinion of an artist of some small demonstrable accomplishment is worth, I never liked either half of the Crossfire logo.  It's rather ugly.