Hello, I’ve been following along with Joel Toppen’s module design tutorials, and have started working on making a module. I’m in early stages making separate image files for each counter. I’m using gimp as he suggests in his tutorial, I wonder if there is a similar program that would work on my iPad? I have spent about an hour searching for gimp equivalent on iPad and looking, particularly for those that have direct access to Google Drive. But I have yet to find something that makes any sense to me. It’s certainly not urgent that I’d be able to do this, but it would give me more time to do the work, so if anyone has any tools like that that they use, I would love to hear about them.
A cursory search like “iOS image editing” suggests there are a number of apps that might have functionality that might suffice, since of course you’re unlikely to need everything that something as robust as GIMP offers. Options look to include: Snapseed, VSCO, Adobe Photoshop Express, Lightroom, and others.
Although I haven’t tried anything in this vein, my caution for you would be that this sounds like a workflow that adds a lot of time and fuss to your ultimate goal. Since you can’t run VASSAL on iOS anyway and do module editing there, you’re going to have to transfer files to the iPad, use an app on them, and then transfer your outputs back off the iPad to a computer to do the actual module editing. What happens when you find that some images need to be resized or adjusted in some fashion? You’ll be repeating this transfer, edit, transfer back process multiple times.
Even allowing for an iPad’s mobility and UI benefits that you might value, it will make life much easier to learn an image editing suite on the same computer you’ll be using to run VASSAL. It doesn’t have to be GIMP.
Yes, I have tried most of those apps and it may just be that I need to spend more time learning how to use them, but they don’t seem to allow me to make the selection of the individual counter and make a copy of that to put it in a separate file. Again that functionality may be there.
And I’m aware of the concern about that process being slower. There are times when I have free time, and I have my iPad, but not a computer, and I thought if there was a way to do some of the work of creating individual counters for the game during that time it would help overall. I certainly don’t intend to design the entire module there. it’s also not terribly important that I find something, for instance it’s not worth me trying to learn how to use another program if it doesn’t seem easy right from the get-go. I just thought I’d ask if anybody had any experience with those programs that they could put me in the right direction.
Thanks for your reply
You absolutely can do that with GIMP: Use the selection tool to select an area. Copy it. Choose Edit > Paste As > New Image.
I think in that comment he’s referring to the iOS apps he’s tried so far…
Good reason not to edit images on iOS, then.
You may want to look at Tools for module developers. Although no iOS tools are listed, it could be that some of the other tools could be an inspiration.
BTW, have you seen XGimp? for iOS. There’s also this for Android.
If you do find some good tools for iOS - or any other platform for that matter - do consider to add them to the Tools for module developers page so that others may leverage your experience and insights. Just edit the main post so that things are easier to find (rather than digging through a large number of comments).
Yours,
Christian
One of the handiest programs I’ve found for turning an unpunched countersheet into individual counters for a Vassal mod is Split Image by The Castle. SplitImage™ — The Castle
Yes it’s old and 32 bit but still runs on Win 11.
If indeed you can’t edit a module on an IPad, then why do the image stuff there?