Trainer Cards
By Crimson Fox
This is your good friend Crimson Fox again here with a fresh new guide to help anyone who wants to give spriting a try. This second Crimson Fox offical guide will tell you how to make your own trainer card.
Well you can't make a card completely from scratch, so here is a trainer card starter set for the artist...
Copy this image and open Paint and paste it on there. This starting set comes with a completely blank Trainer Card whose background you can change any way you want, Pokemon game text for your name, ID, and so on, Leage Badges for the buttom part of the card they don't have to be as a set you can use any badge you want in any order too, and finally a type list for anything extra.
Now follow these steps in making a card.
1. After you put this image in paint, extend the border so there is blank space left to spare.
2. Background. What will be your background? Will it be a simple color, a set of multiple colors, or will it be an image?
a) If you want to have an image as the background of the card search for one, copy and paste it on Paint. Now this is where the extra space comes in, move the image to the extra space, away from the card stuff. The size has to be big enough. With the Select tool, pick a good section of the image to be part of the trainer card; from a corner end shrink it down to fit the card size *Only if you want to* From here whether you want to use a small part of the image or shrink a large part, you then use the select tool and take the card. When you have the select tool highlighted you will see extra options on the tool tool bar. The extra images will look the same but there is something different about them; one is of two images a smaller one with a white background covering a larger image, the second option is with the same image but the white is gone from the small image. Pick the option with the white being gone. Now with that out of the way drag your card to the image, and you'll see that the white is gone and you get a great background for your card. After you are done with this deselect the card then reselect it, moving it back to its original spot. Select anything extra that came from your background image and delete it, you'll need the same space later.
3. Sprites. You'll need Pokemon and Trainer sprites to finish this go to www.pokemonelite2000.com for images. On the Fox Liner topic I have many revamps, special pokemon, and custom trainer sprites. Copy your trainer and six Pokemon sprites to paint and move them away from the work.
4. Moving the trainer and placing you badges. Hopefully the trainer has a white background so that when yo select and move it the white will be gone once you reach a colored pixel. You move the trainer to the space to the left part of the card. After that pick any badges you want and put them in the squares in the buttom section.
5. Putting the Pokemon in the Box. Here you select the inner pixels of the box and move it to the side. From there move the Pokemon you want on the group of pixels you just moved. Unselect the Pokemon, then select the box of Pixels and move them back to their spot on the card. If you did it right the Pokemon should be in the box with the extra part of it left behind. Delete the extra pokemon parts and repeat with the other 5.
6. The text. In the space next to Trainer's Card you can put text there, with the font style given. You can put your user name there, DP name, Friend Code, and so on. If you don't have enough space for your text, increase the size or if you are have more then one set of text make another box, (like my card).
7. Any recoloring. This is an extra step if you want to change the default colors of the card.
8. When your work is done, backup and take a good look at it. If you like your work select the trainer card and copy it. Open another Paint program. Make the borders small this time, so that when you paste this it will fit itself. Then save your work.
PS. If you felt as if you made a mistake when working, stop working and press both Ctrl and Z to backstep and remove your mistake.
PPS. Some of the White in my trainer, pokemon, and or badge has disappeared, what do I do? Well that happens when you use that selecting tool. The fix is easy, just use a brush set at one pixel and white the part that got removed.
And that is how you make a Trainer Card.
This guide is by Crimson Fox of The Spriting Shack Forums. Only he may post this guide on sites he chooses. You may not use this guide on your site without Crimson Fox's explicit permission.
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