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Welcome to E.S's GIMP Tutorials. Please DO NOT steal, redistribute, or edit these in ANY way. I worked hard writing these. If you do, I WILL take the tutorials down. Feel free to
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if you have any question. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulating Program. This is a FREE program used for manipulating images. You can download GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/. DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK!
This is the rewrite. The old version is here.
The Toolbar
01. Creating a Brush
Find a stamp you like here. Copy the image. Now, go to File-Acquire-Paste as New. Using the free select tool, select the brush you want and copy that. Go to File-Acquire-Paste as New. Go to Image-Mode-Grayscale, then Image-Flatten Image. Now save as BRUSH1.gbr. Make sure to save it in your brush folder. Click "Browse for other folders." It is usually located in USER-gimp 2.4-brushes. Refresh your brush menu.
02.Creating a Pattern
Find some on here. Copy it then go to File-Acquire-Paste as New. Save as PATTERN1.pat in your pattern folder which is found usually in USER-gimp 2.4-patterns. Refresh your patterns menu.
03.Glittering an Image
Open up your image. Duplicate it 2 times (Layer-Duplicate.) Go to Dialogs-Layers. Select the first layer. Use the Fuzzy Select Tool, select the region where you want to glitter. Go to Filters-Noise-RGB Noise. Select Correlated noise and un-select Independent RGB. Now set the values to around 0.10. Press OK. Click on the second layer then press CTR + F. Click on the third layer then press CTR + F. Now go to Filter-Animation-Playback. If it looks good, then go to Filter-Animation-Optimize (for GIF). Save as ANIMATION1.gif. A window will pop up and REMEMBER TO SAVE AS ANIMATION. Click Export then Save.
04.Creating a Basic Blog
Open up your image. Go to Layer-New Layer. Using the Rectangle Select tool, select where the blog will be at. Now go to Edit-Fill with BG Color. Then go to Select-None. Adjust the opacity on the slider in the Layers dialog. Go to Image-Flatten Image and Save.
05. Blending
Create a new image. Place all of your images on it, overlapping a bit. Grab your lasso tool and double click the icon. The tool option will pop up. Check "Antialiasing" and "Feather Edges." Set the radius to 20. Outline the area you want to blend together and go to Edit-Clear. Repeat until it's blended the way you want. Select none then Save.
06.Creating Diagonal Scan Lines
Make a 5x5 transparent image. Use the Zoom Tool and Zoom in. A lot. Now, using the pencil tool and a 3x3 brush, make a diagonal line. Save as SCANLINE.pat in your pattern folder. Refresh your pattern menu.
Note: When using it, I'd recommend creating a new layer, fill it, then change the mode to Overlay.
07. Blue Overlay
Open up your image. Duplicate it (CTR + SHIFT + D). Go to Filters-Blur-Gaussian Blur and set the radius to around 2-3. Change the new layer's mode to overlay.
08. Using Quick Mask
Open up your image. Make a rectangular selection around the edge of the image. Go to Select-Toggle Quick Mask. Go to Filter-Distorts-Waves and press OK. Next, go to Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blue. Set the radius to 3 and the Blue Method to RLE. Untoggle Quick Mask by pressing SHIFT + Q. Go to Select-Invert, Edit-Clear, then Select-None.
09.Creating Border around text
Create a new image. Create a new layer then add your text. Go to Dialogs-Layers and right click your text layer. Click "Alpha to Selection" and then go to Select-Grow. I'd recommend a value of 1-5 depending on how big your text is. Pick a color. Go back to Dialogs-Layers then select the transparent layer. Go to Edit-Fill with BG Color. Select none, flatten the image, then save.
10. Animated Rain
Open up your image that you want to add the rain effect on. Duplicate the image 2 times. Add a new white layer for each background by clicking the layer in the Layer Dialog box then click Layer-New Layer. It should be alternating starting from the image layer then the white layer with a total of 6 layers.
Add noise to each white layer (Filter-Noise-RGB Noise.) Unclick Correlated Noise and Independent RGB. Set the green, red and blue to .63 and alpha to 0. Press OK. Repeat for all the white layer by pressing Ctr+F while clicking on that layer. Add motion Blur to each noise layer (Filter-Blur-Motion Blur.) Blur Type should be Linear, length 10, angle 135, and press OK. Set the layer mode for each noise layer to Multiply. Merge the noise layers down to the background image below it. DO NOT merge the background image together. You should now have the 3 background layer left. Save as ".gif".
11. Image Maps- Basic
Open up your image. Go to Filters-Web-Image Map. Use the "Define Rectangle Area" tool and select a region. A window will pop up. Ignore everything else except in the "Link" tab. Fill in the URL. You can also ignore the Target frame name thing. Fill in the ALT text if you want. Click OK. Repeat if necessary. Click View-Source. Copy everything and Voila! There's your code.
12. Pixelize
Open up your image. Go to Layer-Duplicate Layer, then Filters-Blur-Pixelize. Set the values to around 50-100 depending on how big your image is. I set mine to 80. Click OK. Lower the opacity to around 50 depending on the color. Flatten the image, then save.
13. Colorize
Open up your image. Go to Color-Colorize. If the "Preview" box is not checked, check it. Change the settings around until satisfied then save.
The original image.
The colorized image.
14. Creating Shadows
All right, open up your image/text. I'm going to use this image here:
Go to Layer-Transparency-Alpha to Selection, then Select-Grow. Choose a value between 3-10 depending on how big your image/text is. Click Layer-New Layer and go to the Layer Dialog. Drag the new layer below the original layer. It should look like this now.
Now go to Edit- Fill with FG color. Select none. Looks kind of ugly now right? Don't worry! Go to Filters-Blur-Gaussian Blur. Set the values to whatever you want. I chose 15. You can even lower the opacity of the blurred layer if you want. Go to Image-Flatten Image then Save.
Tips: Things to Remember
The Undo button is your friend. Use it wisely.
Use ".xcf" as your extension and save frequently if your computer crash a lot. This will save your work as it is even if it's in layers. When you need to use it for the web, open it, flatten it, then save as ".png" or ".gif" or ".jpg".
Use other tutorials on the web.
Practice! Trust me, it works. I was such a newb at GIMP before, but now I got somewhat better!
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