Need help placing grids on pictures 2

[ianpwilliams]

I have PSP 7.00 and I want to be able to create an image with a grid of black squares (or possibly another colour), with size and line thickness of my choosing, then I want to place the entire grid on top of a picture (I'm making a board game you see). How would I go about doing this? I downloaded a standard picture of a grid from the internet to test it, although obviously it was the wrong type of grid for me, but I couldn't get it on top of the picture without destroying the picture. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Eyespi20]

You could use your pen tool to draw your grid or take your grid you got from the internet, make it a transparent layer, then copy and paste as new layer onto your graphic, then merge layers to create your new "board".

Margaret

 

[ianpwilliams]

I have worked out how to paste a transparent selection onto a picture, but the picture of a grid from the internet has the black grid, but also the white bits in between, so when I paste as a transparent selection it still blocks it out.

 

[jconingham]

See if this helps:

http://teom.coningham.net/psp-7/grids

 

[ianpwilliams]

Hmm...that does look realy useful. I've followed the instructions - saved the bmp in the patterns folder as a transparent image, then created a brand new blank transparent image and flood-filled it with the pattern, then copied and pasted that image onto a picture (using "paste as transparent image") and instead of getting a grid of black lines on the picture I am getting a lot of white squares and nothing where the black lines should be! So close!

 

[jconingham]

Do the following then: create the black lines on a transparent canvas (you can set that when you create a new document or you can work on a new raster layer and delete the background layer); then open the image (without closing the one with the lines) and when you choose to flood fill it using a pattern the other image will be available as long as it stays open.

 

[ianpwilliams]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. When I flood fill a new image with the grid pattern which I created (the original grid.bmp image was transparent, although it did say when I saved it that it would have to be a merged image) I notice that the grey and white squares you get on a new image dissapear, surely they should be visible behind the grid pattern if it's transparent? And if I flood fill directly onto the image then the image is covered.

 

[jconingham]

BMPs don't support transparency, so the patterns located in PSP's pattern folder can't be transparent.

However, you can use any image that is currently open as a pattern as well - it is available on the pattern drop-down menu along with the BMPs.

 

[ChrisHunt]

or just save the grid image in the patterns folder using a file format that supports transparency, like .gif or .psp

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[ianpwilliams]

Aha! It's because it was a Bitmap! Excellent, it's working brilliantly now, creating a grid pattern or by flood filling from an image. Thanks for the help everyone!