Can anybody tell me how to make my own pilot/elite talent/et. al. cards? I see alot of people doing them so they cant be that hard right?
How to make your own pilots cards and such
Not hard really, you got any experience messing around with some simple imaging software like Paint on your PC?
Its just a case of being patient and taking your time, to create a blank card.
My current PC has GIMP installed as its free, but my old PC had Paint Shop Pro. The wife's PC has Photoshop Elements, think it came with her camera. Any way there's loads of software out there that could be used for this, and probably just as many different methods of doing it in each piece of software. I even think I could do this task in PowerPoint, although it could be a ball ache to do so.
As old the saying says 'there are many ways to skin a cat'.
My method is to copy different parts of the original card image to different Layers in the software i am using. Most software has pretty clever selection tools to make this easy. Once that is done its simple a case of erasing what you don't want from various layers (depending how complex you card/art is), and replacing those bits with either external images or copy/paste other sections of the card (to blank out the original text for example).
Here is one i knocked up one evening for a tournament we just had at our gaming club (it was stuck on the back of the trophy)
So for the above card, i probably had the following layers:
- spoon image
- nebular image
- text
- copy/pasted cream coloured sections over old text
- the standard EPT artwork (ie lower half of original card)
- the original image
Don't know if that was of any help really. Have a play with some software and come back with a little more specific questions, and we'll be able to give better answers I suspect.
Just for fun, you guys who had already done the process, could actually post some empty cards for us to mod the game. I love the FFG products. Sometime ago, I accquired the Star Trek Attack Wing and I also loved the idea of placing captains to any ship. So, I've tried to mod the X-wing ones to have separated pilots. As I'm kind of a dumb monkey when it comes to image editing, my printed cards were all blurry and ugly... 
The best one is Strange Eons by far. Google it. It's a free download. Just follow the instructions to download it for whatever OS you run. No programing skill required. Then download the X-wing Miniatures file from the same site and you're set. Easy as pie. Let me know if you have any questions, send me a PM.
ALL credit to HINNYBOY!
Edited by R22Download site:
http://cgjennings.ca/eons/download/update.html
After you install it, start Strange Eons and choose Toolbox -> Catalogue. Then find the X-wing plug-in at the bottom of the list, tick it and choose "Download and Install".
It's SUPER easy.
Here is the forum where my stuff is if you want to see how it comes out:
http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/101263-sharing-homemade-cards/
Oh, thank you very much, guys. Those programs are amazing! And I really loved your cards, R22! Thank you very much! Those really made my day 
I'm having a lot of fun with this one. And they even give you the points. Thats awesome!
Sweet. Thanks guys. I have no experience with messing about with any picture programs other than Paint.
Glad it`s okay, could never seam to get the header image to work...what am i doing wrong?
http://cardcreator.atelierdufaucon.com/
en francais is a little bit of a pain in the anoose but this one isn't bad
http://cardcreator.atelierdufaucon.com/
en francais is a little bit of a pain in the anoose but this one isn't bad
looks great, but dont speak french
Just for fun, you guys who had already done the process, could actually post some empty cards for us to mod the game.
Blank EPT card
