So I finally downloaded GIMP and tried to mess around with it since I still feel some responsibility (and pride) for designing Feministe stuff (and it’s great for procrastinating). I did this logo which is intended for a t-shirt and was suggested by Isabel in the comments, among other fun ideas.
It looks prettier here.
In Photoshop this would have taken me all of two minutes. In GIMP it took forty minutes. There’s a serious learning curve.
Several things so far:
1) GIMPshop and my computer don’t get along,
2) I really hate the format of the program but would get along with GIMPshop if my computer suddenly decided to cooperate with me,
3) how the hell do I get rid of the transparency, which shows up here in black?, and
4) if I bought this t-shirt for Chef he’d rub my face in it.
I’m lazy and I don’t make my own sandwiches.
UPDATE: Next time Lauren wants to rid herself of the ugly transparency box, she can do so by clipping to the bottom layer. And next time, she should consult the documentation before whining to the world via blahg.
What kind of sandwich is that? It looks a little scary?
It’s a hairy feminist sandwich made of testicles and dead babies.
And that looks like American cheese. Ew.
Actually it’s PB&J.
Yay GIMP!
Should we be expecting more designs coming from you now?
Not just PB&J, but PB&J on something resembling Wonder Bread.
I remember eating PBs on Wonder Bread, which was the only bread my dad would tolerate in the house (the only J we had in the house was grape, which I hated, being a strawberry jam kind of girl, and ask me sometime about my ingrained horror of Kraft Dinner). I’d chew off the crust, then press down the bread so I could fold the sandwich a couple of times and get a compressed club sandwich.
Aww, I feel special. And PB&J is my favorite sandwich, too (for real. heh). I never folded it over but I definitely did squish down the bread. I feel considerably less weird now.
Good luck figuring out GIMP! I once briefly tried to figure out Photoshop, cried for a while, realized that I could see no reason my total lack of artistic talent shouldn’t translate to a digital medium, and gave up. So, I admire you a lot, is my point.