Buttons

Make your own buttons set:¶

User Account
Groups
Articles
Events
Videos
Zines
Other Media
Background Blue
Background Blue hover
Background Red
Backround Red hover

Gimp script to generate Button Backrounds in any size/colour you like¶

Linux Users:¶

• To install gimp from your package repository (Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives), open up a terminal and type sudo aptitude install gimp
  (Or alternatively go through your distributions graphical package manager)
• Download the following file by typing the following or clicking this link wget http://registry.gimp.org/files/vista_button.scm
• Copy/move the file to ~/.gimp-2.6/scripts/ (note: if you have an older/newer version of gimp, change the location to the appropriate version.)
• Restart gimp and go to: Filters > Script-Fu > Refresh Scripts
• The script should now be available in the menu bar at the top under script-fu

Mac Users:¶

• To download Gimp for Mac, go to the following page: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
• Download the plugin from the following link
• Go to the following folder in Finder: Library / Application Support / Gimp / Scripts
• Drag and drop the plugin you downloaded into the scripts folder
• Restart gimp and go to: Filters > Script-Fu > Refresh Scripts
• The script should now be available in the menu bar at the top under script-fu

Windows Users:¶

Preferred method:

• Download one of the files from this site, burn it to a CDR and restart your computer with the disk inserted
• Follow the instructions to install and then continue with the Linux instructions above

Alternative method for those who can’t bear to part with Windows:

• Get a copy of Gimp for windows from this site
• Double click the install file to install gimp
• Download the script-fu plugin from here
• Put the downloaded script into the following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\.gimp-2.6\scripts
• Restart gimp and go to: Filters > Script-Fu > Refresh Scripts
• The script should now be available in the menu bar at the top under script-fu