Frankenspriting with GIMP?

Ok I am a cheap bastard and dont have PS nor can I afford it so I use gimp how does one go about Frankenspriting with gimp?

have you done it before?
i never used gimp i like using paint.NET myself...
i have PSe but i prefer paint for majority of my work
it just seems easier to work with IMO

How to frankensprite with Gimp.

1. make spritesheet of what you are editing with extra room to frankensprite
2. click "image", click "mode", click "indexed"
3. choose 256 color
4. use the select by color tool (ctrl+O) to pick the background color
5. delete background color (ctrl+X)
6. use a select tool (rectangle,elipse,free select, etc tool) to seperate your sprites into the pieces
7. use the eraser tool to clean the edges
8. use a select tool to copy pieces and paste on top of each other


**if you make a mistake "CTRL+Z" is to revert last action, really useful**

If I have time this weekend, i'll try and do up some screenshots in gimp for this. I hope this helps it is the process I used for hulk here to animate his stance out of 1 sprite.


Sheet:

Finished animated:

very well done techy
thas an excellent stance animation

for shadman and those who cant afford photoshop or a higher end art program,go google "macromedia fireworks 8" and download it, then pm me and i wil give you my personal serial number to it. Just dont ever register your product. I hope this will help those of you like me who dont know how to use gimp,and refuse to pay outrages prices for ps when itll just be outdated in five months.lol and its like an advanced version of ms paint with alot more features and plugins(no .pcx) sorry,but its easy to learn how to use.i do all my spriting on it then convert to .pcx with infranview wich is free so dl that aswell.

Sent you a pm

i did what i sent you on that program bro.its a good spriting program, if it wasnt adobe wouldnt of felt threatened and bought them ought and incorperated all theyre options into cs3 and up.lol

I got the bottoms from you Tank, its still a WIP as the top isnt done.

terry crews? id use sagats arms,uriens body, edit legs into pants and remy from sf boots.i might have a head....lemme check

I know Ax had a head in the thread however he wants something different. lol

look at my man Cheeseburger Eddie!

i did it quick from a bobby ologun sprite,hope it can be used

Ill give it a whirl and see what I come up with.

i think sagats lean forward boxers stance is wrong for terry personally, if u look at him in his movies hes laid back swagger stance,id lean the body back like in a walking backwards frame but keep the regular stance legs and place his arms like hes getting ready to reach out and choke some one kind of ,hard to explain,sorry,lol

Ill look at it later might have some different ideas