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<blockquote data-quote="perrinmiller" data-source="post: 6169738" data-attributes="member: 88649"><p>Well, a Google Doc Spreadsheet tactical grid is perfectly functional and is pretty easy to do.</p><p></p><p>I am not a fan of GIMP unless you already know what you are doing with it. If you have Microsoft Office, then you already have a good tool that is easy to use. Microsoft Office Picture Manager is much easier for taking any image to crop and resize. You can take any screenshot and <alt><Print Scrn> to past a new image and then crop, resize, and convert to jpeg.</p><p></p><p>If you already have maps from a published module, then sometimes it is easier to use something like MapTools. Drop the Map Image into it, resize it to make the grids match up. Then add tokens and you can move things around on the map and take screen shots to post them up.</p><p></p><p>If you have seen my Workshop (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?315221-PMiller-s-DM-Workshop-Series&p=5750548&viewfull=1#post5750548" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?315221-PMiller-s-DM-Workshop-Series&p=5750548&viewfull=1#post5750548</a>), there is a post dedicated to this and it has the links for MapTools and another easy to use free picture editor if you don't have MS Picture Manager.</p><p></p><p>Some people get turned off with MapTools upon seeing it the first time, but it is not as complicated as it looks. Playing with someone else's cmpgn file helps a lot and there a number of 5 minute on-line tutorial videos too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="perrinmiller, post: 6169738, member: 88649"] Well, a Google Doc Spreadsheet tactical grid is perfectly functional and is pretty easy to do. I am not a fan of GIMP unless you already know what you are doing with it. If you have Microsoft Office, then you already have a good tool that is easy to use. Microsoft Office Picture Manager is much easier for taking any image to crop and resize. You can take any screenshot and <alt><Print Scrn> to past a new image and then crop, resize, and convert to jpeg. If you already have maps from a published module, then sometimes it is easier to use something like MapTools. Drop the Map Image into it, resize it to make the grids match up. Then add tokens and you can move things around on the map and take screen shots to post them up. If you have seen my Workshop ([URL]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?315221-PMiller-s-DM-Workshop-Series&p=5750548&viewfull=1#post5750548[/URL]), there is a post dedicated to this and it has the links for MapTools and another easy to use free picture editor if you don't have MS Picture Manager. Some people get turned off with MapTools upon seeing it the first time, but it is not as complicated as it looks. Playing with someone else's cmpgn file helps a lot and there a number of 5 minute on-line tutorial videos too. [/QUOTE]
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