OK I have been searching for hours (56k modem)
can anyone help I need some cool patterned back grounds to suit my red firebird & maybe a checkered flag etc. can you guys please give web address or post a pic. thanks

 

As you can see I photoshop like a pre schooler so I need all the help I can get

 

Damn! Why Is it so hard to find a checkered wallpaper? I have been looking for 20 minutes so far. I had photochop I would make you one. I'll find one though.

 

download toolz for the chop

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/free/bl_free.htm

 

Put your car infront of these guys.

 

Here pop you car in here.

<img src=http://www.archetypal.com/emw/gallery/sea_of_avarice.jpg>

 

Put your car in here racing these jets.

>Man I'm going to give this a shot when I get home.


<img src=http://www.archetypal.com/emw/gallery/the_chase.jpg>

 

Come on I'm not the only one that can copy and paste am I? Well if so I'll get to it in 6 hours when I'm off work. I think it would be cool to put some thirdgens in somekinda fantacy wall paper like that.

 

Come on I'm not the only one that can copy and paste am I? Well if so I'll get to it in 6 hours when I'm off work. I think it would be cool to put some thirdgens in somekinda fantacy wall paper like that.

 

Thanks redbird
I hate my dial up connection!!! its just so slow!!!
I searched for ages for a flag but only could download a tiny one that had poor resolution, I'd luv to find one thats sorta blowin in a breeze.
speaking of breezes & wind etc
You guys have weather **** on ya barns don't ya ?
cos we had weather f###ies but the wind would just blow straight through them. lol

 

jacko, we all gotta start somewhere sometime, but I have to say I dont think your current wallpaper looks that bad at all, I liked both the flames and the textured background, only thing is you need to try and shrink the size of the image so it does not take so long especially over a dialup (I have cable and now I am spoiled), the best way to learn anything is to make a million mistakes, and most importantly, do not get discouraged if you cannot create the image you have in your head, just keep trying chances are you will hit on something you like even more and eventually you will find that it gets much easier to create the image you have in your head.

The best thing you can learn in photoshop is to learn how to use selections, this will get you farther quicker, this will help you isolate portions of an image that you want to modify. And use lots of layers.

As far as a checkered flag goes, try searching for races, or even corvettes and simply crop out the rest of the corvette logo. Just an idea.

Here, I just whipped this one out, went to the Corvette club of America site and copied their banner image, opened that up in PSP, then selected the checkered flag in the center of the image, copied it and pasted it a dozen times and arranged them all to look like a whipping flag and copied that and pasted it over and over until it filled up the 100x100 px sized space (changed canvas size), now you can tile this image to create a full background.

 

Thanks lunarteq
Yeah millions of mistakes well I've done that!! mmm maybe I'm slowly getting the hang of it?
I found some flags but when I loaded them up they looked crap, guess I'll keep trying