Learning Photoshop with Valour and Victory
What I'm Working Off Of
The Following are the Tokens I Copied the Style and Values of, These Were all Made by @oriskany
The Program
I’m a Huge Fan of Open Source Software so I downloaded GIMPY which seems to be the most recommended Open Source Photoshop Equivalent. It took about an hour to figure out how the basics worked (I don’t do tutorials I just poke around and if I don’t get it in an hour I start asking for help) but I managed to get the easy stuff like scaling individual layers under control.
Yeah I Mean Jim's Stuff is Cool but Where's Yours?
I wanted to actually create something rather than just screw around so I decided to make tokens for the Rhodesian Light Infantry and ZANU Guerilla Forces for the Rhodesian Bush War (1965-79) for Valour and Victor. Specifically a Rhodesian Fireforce complete with Transport.
Will they ever get used? Who knows maybe but for practice they were great.
Wait a Fire What?
I’ve Recently Started a Youtube Channel (it’s actually the reason I want to learn basic Photoshop) and have made a video describing what a “Fire Force” is and how it was used which you can watch here.
My, my. Those counters really look amazing. I wonder what dashing and resourceful young man could’ve come up with those? 😀