Gimp is a very good graphic editor i suggest everyone to use it especially because it’s free (by free i don’t mean just free of charge). It has almost every thing like photoshop and there are new versions frequently.
When the web 2.0 becamed popular it was not only cause of ajax it’s because of new designs. Now there are many trends in design and one of them are stripes. They can be easily be done in gimp, just follow these steps:
1. Open gimp and click File> New, be sure to have selected Fill with: Background color in Advanced options, add width and height you need and click OK.
2. Click on Bucket Fill Tool or press Shift+B, change the foreground color to what you want and click on the image.
3. In the layout many add new layer and name it or leave the default name, set transparency of the layer to 20%.
4. Use Bucket Fill Tool again but now in Fill type select Pattern fill, selct pattern named warning like in the picture below and just click on the picture you’re creating. And there you have it.
Here is the result:
In step 2 you can use Gradient Tool set the foreground and background colors and you will have something like this:
If you want smaller stripes just create a bigger picture and scale it (Image> Scale image)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Awesome. I love GIMP. Going to use this to make over my blog.