Gimp Tutorial

How would I go about making this?

krista_mae — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:31:33 GMT

I was wondering if it anyone knows how to make something like this:

in GIMP? A gif effect over a still photo? Is it possible to do in GIMP?

I just got Animstack, so I'm still learning how to use it ~~(I'm still very new to gif making in general)~~, but if it is, I'd really appreciate it if you could please help me out with a tutorial.

Creating Gifs With Gimp - Help?

soserendipity — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:26:34 GMT

Dear comm members,
I am very new to the art side of things, I haven't even posted anything on lj yet. But I'd like to; I'm currently working on a prompt for one of the fandoms here. Unfortunately, my muses ran rampant and now I'm a little stuck with gimp 2.8. So I'd love to talk to someone about their experiences with creating gifs there. Specifically, is there any way to avoid the mode switch to 'indexed' from RGB? Because that just about slaughters the whole thing (which you experienced people probably were already aware of but I wasn't). Grayscales are fine quality wise, but I'd love to keep it colored.
Also, I'm currently at 100+ layers for the background alone - the muses, I'm telling you - and that makes the .xcf file huge and veeery slow to work with. Not only do I still need to tweak the whole thing to smooth it out, but I also need to add the actual foreground sequence with the characters so now I'm thinking about doing that in a second file and merging both of them in the end, probably by creating a new layergroup for every single background layer. Has anyone done that kind of thing before or knows the problems I'm talking about? I'm sure there must be easier ways to do this, so any advice would be highly appreciated.

Dear mods, I have no idea about tagging this request or if this is even the right place to ask these things so I'm sorry for all mistakes I probably made.

Request

ohmiyaskdesu — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:17:16 GMT

Hello, not really new here but I'm new at posting. :D

I was wondering if someone can give me a tutorial for this kind of edits?:

kzsofy kzsofy csaca a_cheshire_grin (credits)

For the first three, I would like to know the coloring, and for the last, how to get the effect.

Thanks.

maijiyeon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:19:28 GMT

Can I know how to put effects from this :http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/lovet-ara/16514285892/2/tumblr_lyecj2i6YE1qe65h9To

this : http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye6yexlDL1qjwhz9o1_500.png

smilecarnival — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:34:18 GMT

I made a short tutorial for the basic use of GIMP's Resynthesiser plug-in. It's a nifty tool very similar to Adobe's content aware fill.

here @ barubaron

Icon tutorial #1

wayfarer52 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:36:17 GMT

This is my first tutorial! :O
How to get from
Tutorial here! :3

Hello

maijiyeon — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:11:58 GMT

Hello! I'm so new here :D Btw, My first time coloring my icon is there @ my pic. Can i ask help how to do coloring like this? : this : (how to outline too) . this : this : and this :
Sorry if i'm asking too much ): But i hope you can help me at least one of the icons. :0

Text Question

cool_spectrum — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:48:06 GMT

So, here's the deal. I've been making icons with GIMP for a long time now... and I've learned a lot. But I've never been able to find out how to warp text. I'd like to be able to play more with the way text looks, and I think playing with some warping might help.

The things I'd really like to do would be making the text circular, making the text go in a U shape... that sort of thing.

quality loss

gobbolina — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:03:10 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask.

I've made four banners for a board RPG which I wanted to animate and turn into one single banner. But as soon as I save it as a .gif it looses quality.

At this pic you can see it best.

This is the original:

And here's what it looks like as a .gif:

I have no idea where the problem lies. I hope you can help me.

Tutorial - Selective Coloring for GIMP

valliegurl — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:23:24 GMT

From this: to this:

SEE IT HERE! :D

Texture Tutorial

nickygabriel — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:14:01 GMT

Hallo :)
I made this tutorial for a friend who asked how to work with textures but I thought that I could post it here as well. It’s a wallpaper tutorial for beginners.

here @ nickygabriel

According to my friend it works as well in PS but I don’t have this program so I didn’t try it.

Tutorial (Big Time Rush)

amimichiru — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:27:42 GMT

Hi everyone! I thought I'd share an icon I've worked on and a tutorial that goes with it. The icon:

Program: GIMP 2.6.11
Difficulty: Easy-Medium (depends on how well you know GIMP)

OK, so the first step was getting the screencaps:

The first screencap came from the music video Nickelodeon released to promote the episode and was originally 1280x720, while the second screencap came from an online clip of the episode itself.

Then I cropped the picture a bit so it would fit better on the icon. Originally, I automatically cropped both to100x49 thanks to Photoshop Elements, but I like to work with the original sizes of the caps as much as possible before shrinking to icon size. It's a preference of mine.

The first cap is 909x445, while the second one is 731x358. I shrunk the first cap down to the size of the second cap so I can add both to a square canvas. If I had stretched out the second cap, I imagine it would look more blurry than it already does. I can say this based on experience.

So, next I opened a new file on GIMP, set it to 731x731, and bucket filled it with black so I'd have a nice, solid background to work with. Then I added two transparent layers to the image so that when I add my cropped caps, I can move them around and mess with them separately:

Next, I copied and pasted both caps onto the layers, the first cap on the bottom and the second cap on the top. There should be a small black border in between the two caps:

Not that it really matters, but I adjusted the caps by selecting each "New Layer" by clicking Colors->Auto->White Balance. This way, the coloring of the two caps look more equal to each other. I could just shrink this to 100x100 and call it a day:

However, I wanted to mess around with coloring a bit more. So first, I selected the cap on top and desaturate it by going to Colors->Desaturate

I personally like how "Luminosity" looks best and tend to pick it for all my black and white shots, so I chose it here. I then selected the layer with the other picture and desaturated it as well.

To get the sepia color on the bottom, I kept the layer selected and clicked Colors->Colorize. I then shamelessly stole the values from Photoshop Elements from their "Old Fashioned Photo" guided edit and put the "Hue" at 30 and the "Saturation" at 25. This should give a nice brownish tint:

For comparison, here's what happens if you click Filters->Decor->Old Photo and just click "Sepia":

The script colors the whole picture, and I think it looks a little more faded. Maybe it might work for a different icon. Of course, I could've avoided the whole "colors the whole picture" by working on the caps separately before putting them on the canvas. *shrug* Moving on...

After that, I clicked Layer->Merge Visible Layers (or Ctrl+M), then selected "Clipped to bottom" as my final, merged layer. I've been doing this for all my icons because if I ever move an image around to a point where it goes outside the image, the final result will stay with the bottom layer boundaries. After that, I duplicated the image twice, set the second layer on "Burn" and the top later on "Screen":

I like how the "Burn" layer accentuates the shadows and how the "Screen" filter makes the effect less harsh, so I went with it.

At this point, I merged the layers again and scaled the icon down to 100x100. At this point on, I'll be putting up comparisons between the one I'm doing with just GIMP and the one with both GIMP and Photoshop Elements:

The left icon is the icon I made so far. The one on the right is the original result I got from using Photoshop Elements.

The reason why I scaled the icon is because I decided to try a light texture, and it's 100x100. Specifically, this one by Ransie:

I opened it as a new layer and decided to play with the texture. I discovered that I loved how the icon looked when I duplicated the texture, set the bottom texture layer to "Subtract" and the topmost layer to "Screen." Not sure exactly what's behind it, but I found that the subtract layer keeps the colors of the light texture without ruining the coloring of the icon:

While the screen layer lightens the whole icon:

Once again the left icon is just GIMP, the right icon also made use of Photoshop Elements.

At this point, the icon looks really nice and could be considered finished. However, I really wanted to add some text. It probably wasn't a good idea to experiment with new texts on an icon with lots going on already:

Thanks to some input from the good people over at icon_talk I played around with adding text to the middle of the icon (Check out the original "Help me!" post here for some more text ideas from the awesome commenters). Now, normally if I add text to an icon I do it before scaling the final image down. Since it's already shrunk, I have no choice but to work with what I've got.

First, I opened a new image file and set it to 100x10:

I selected the image and copied and pasted on top of the icon like so:

I decided not to make a new layer to put the border because I wasn't planning on doing anything special with it, so I anchored it.

Next, I selected the text tool on the toolbox and set the font to "Constantina Bold Italic," size 10 px. I picked the font because I like how it looked; scripty enough for my liking and bold enough to be legible:

I then typed the phrase "The Hardest Part is"on top of the white border, like so:

For the word "goodbye," I kept the same font, but changed the font color to white and spaced the letters by 3 px. It's easier to just show what I mean:

And that's it! I flattened the image and got the final outcome:

This was cross-posted to rfmadison (my public creative journal) and icon_tutorial.

brighten dark screen caps

luminousdaze — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:50:26 GMT

Tips to Brighten Dark Screen Caps

Here.

Icon tutorial?

cassiematthias — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:54:05 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew how to do colouring in GIMP like this: ?

Anime Cap Troubles

mary_greenman — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:55:08 GMT

Can anyone point me towards tutorials that help teach you how to work with anime caps (using gimp, of course)? They're different than working with live action or American shows and I'm having trouble with lighting and blending specifically.

Need Help

neenj61 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:46:40 GMT

I have some health issues that messes with my vision so tutorials are a problem for me.My question is simple..Where can I find a basic,beginner,never had a PC before,or Gimp...simple slow tutorials I can follow.Everytime I try to follow one of these tut videos,mine doesn't work like the one who is doing the tutorial.I want to know how to crop an object out of a picture with a transparent background.Thank you.

Using Gradient Maps to Color Icons Tutorial (ft. Pretty Little Liars)

wr1t3rgrl4j3sus — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:41:21 GMT

How to go from to or
using gradient maps, fill layers, and textures in The GIMP (and Photoshop I believe).

Difficulty: Easy

Translatable: Yes, as long as you have gradient maps, but there's no selective color.

psd?: YES!

Other examples:

here @ nevershouticons

Blue Coloring ft. James Maslow (GIMP and Photoshop)

wr1t3rgrl4j3sus — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:08:42 GMT

How to go from this to > or
using either The GIMP or Photoshop CS5.

Difficulty: Easy-Moderate

Translatable: Yes, no selective color.

Other examples:

here @ nevershouticons

theskydreamer — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:45:46 GMT

Learn How To:
to

Program: Gimp
Translatable: Likely

1. Set your icon to screen, and duplicate the layer (you can duplicate it as many times as you want AFTER finishing all these steps if you want your image to look brighter or nicer)
2. Add a new layer and fill it with a light pink colour. Set it to burn
3. Add a new layer and fill it with a baby blue colour. Set it to burn
4. Add a nice texture File>>Open As Layers>>Open Saved Texture (i used a bokeh texture) and set it to screen. You can change the opacity if the texture you chose was bright or low :)) (whatever you want)

Simple as pie.

I HOPE it works and that you like it (:

Soft Pink/Blue Coloring

sailorprinzess — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:12:30 GMT

Going from this to

Program: Gimp
Steps: 11
Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Translatable: Yep!

Other Examples

tutorial here

gifs coloring

ginevra17 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:13:55 GMT

Hi Gimp users! ^_^

Does anyone know how to modify the coloring of a gif without having to modify every single layer of it? Because I tried, but I don't know how to do it :|

Please help mee :(

Brushes

odi210013 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:52:51 GMT

I know this does not fit into this group, but I could not really find any other gimp active forms.

Where do you guys find your gimp brushes?
Favorite sites?
Favorite Sets?

Icon Coloring Tutorial

sailorprinzess — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:31:48 GMT

Going from this to this

Others:

tutorial here

Tutorial Time!

sailorprinzess — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:45:51 GMT

Going from this to this

Other examples:

Program: Gimp
Difficulty: Easy
Translatable: Yes!
Steps: 9

tutorial here
(Please direct questions and comments on the tutorial entry on my journal.) :D

Beginner

neenj61 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:18:46 GMT

I'm looking for a basic beginners tutorial..and I mean I know nothing about Gimp!I just downloaded Gimp and I have no idea what to do.Thank you very much for your time.HELP!