Custom Brushes Tutorial. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Gautam N. Lad and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention Along with the brushes already included, you can create custom brushes using three methods. Simple shapes are created using th button labelled New at the bottom of the brush selection dialog. Step 1 Create a new image the size of the brush you will be creating. Step 2 Go to the Layers dialog and create additional layers with the fill type Transparent (if necessary, delete or clear the background layer if you forgot to make it transparent when creating the image). Step 3 Draw the images you want in the layers that were already created. Step 4 The last step is to save your brush as a GIMP picture brush. Final To see our brush, go to the Brushes dialog and hit the Refresh button. Simple Animations.
Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Jakub Steiner and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use GIMP’s layers in a different manner. Unlike it’s default composite function, using GIMP as an animation package requires you to think of every layer as of an animation frame. We’ll discuss the two different frame disposal methods later on. Step 1 We’ll create a very simple web banner. Now it’s time to put our logo or the main theme picture into the banner. This part of the tutorial is not the key element, so feel free to experiment.
Step 2 Now we’re ready for the actual animation work. Then we’ll use the standard text tool to put a small text note on every frame. Step 3 In every GIF animation you are allowed to specify the delay between frames. To check if the timing is good, you can preview the animation using the Filters → Animation → Animation Playback. Step 4 Step 5 Now we only need to save our animation as GIF. Tileable Textures. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Adrian Likins and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention The GIMP 1.2 series have a nice new feature I refer to as gradient brushes.
Essentially, this is just the regular paint tool, but instead of painting with a constant color, it gets its color from a gradient and rotates through the gradient as you paint. Using Gradient Brushes Gradient brushes can be accessed from the standard paintbrush dialog. Just filling in an image with a gradient brush is a good start for interesting textures, and you can make some nice ones that way. But that gets a little boring after a while. Basically, just select one of those brushes, and se the spacing to something reasonable (most default to 10 or so). For example, lets choose the "Grunge 15" brush. Now for the easy part. The hard part is making the image tilable.
For gradient painting with grunge brushes, this typicaly just means painting along those lines. Things to tweak Examples. 3-D Floating Logo. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Mel Boyce and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention This tutorial is aimed squarely at the novice GIMP user. The more experienced user may find some techniques here useful. This is the same procedure I used to create the logo on my homepage, albeit with slightly different settings. Step 1 Fire up GIMP and create a new image. Step 2 Start by laying down some text that is wider than 400px and not too thin. Step 3 Duplicate the text layer (text) twice. Step 4 Duplicate the text layer again and move it to the top of the Layers stack (use the little up facing arrow head on the Layers, Channels, & Paths dialog).
You will need to make sure that the layer boundary is larger than the layer so that the blur can spread nicely. Step 5 Duplicate the blurred layer once (tmp1 and tmp2). Step 6 Nudge one of the blurred layers (tmp1) down and to the right about 5 pixels. Step 7 Step 8 Now that the layer is selected... Step 9 Select the highlight layer and... Coloring A BW Sketch. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Marco (LM) Lamberto and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention First of all you have to acquire through a scanner or something similar your sketch. It doesn't necessitate to be truly a black and white image (2 colors), often a well contrasted grayscale image is better (use contrast autosketch or/and the brightness-contrast tools). Step 1 Create a new image of the wanted size and place below the sketch layer a pure white background layer. Now turn the mode for the sketch layer into multiply.
From now the sketch layer will stay forever over the others. Step 2 Now let's start playing with colours! Step 3 Create a "Skin" layer over the "Details" one. Step 4 The "Details#2" layer is used for some extra details like the white text over the blue doughnut. Step 5 The "Hairs" layer contains ... well, what do you think will contain a layer called "Hairs"?
Final The original tutorial can be found here. Changing Background Color 2. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Francisco Bustamante Hempe and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention Many times you have an image with a colored background, like the one above and you want to take out the background to use the image's subject in a composition. With gimp there are many ways to achieve this, one of which is using a plug-in specifically designed for this: Changing Background Color 1. Step 1 In this tutorial I explore the select by color option to remove a particular color from the image.
The first step, after you have loaded the image of course, is to click on the Select By Color tool. Step 2 Like other selection tools, this one provides several options that can be modified. The other interesting setting is the Threshold. Step 3 Now it's time to start selecting the color you want to remove. Step 4 Finally, there is one last step before you can remove the background. Step 5 Step 6 After the last step you should get something like this in Gimp. Final. Film Grain Tutorial. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Eric Kidd and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention Real-world images have lots of noise: film grain, scanner lines, CCD noise, paper texture, and just about anything else you can imagine.
Computer-generated images, on the other hand, tend to be too real. If you need to make computer-generated images look like real-world ones, then this tutorial is for you. Why Would Anyone Want to Ruin Perfectly Good Images? Perhaps you've rendered a gorgeous 3D scene, but want to make it look more like a photograph. Perhaps you're compositing two different photos, and need make the grain match. Extracting the Film Grain This is a subject for another, longer tutorial.
Take a noisy image. (GIMP pattern file) Some good ways of making tileable patterns include Make Seamless, the Resynthesizer and Homogenizer, mirroring, and hand-editing. Ruining a Perfectly Good Image First, desaturate the image. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 So far, so good. Step 5 Related Techniques. Anti-Aliased Threshold Tutorial. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Ville Pätsi and may not be used without permission of the author.
Intention The threshold plug-in works by dividing the image into two parts, dark and light, producing a 2 color image. This is often not the desired result, for some images anti-aliasing is needed, but the threshold plug-in cannot provide that. With a little utilization of the curves plug-in, we get nice results. Problems with the threshold On the left you we see the original image that is about to be thresholded, and on the right side we see the result. The Curves Trick First duplicate the image layer by going to the layers dialog, making sure the image layer is selected, and clicking the duplicate button (fourth from the left).
A neat addition If you now take the original image layer, move it over the new one (make sure it has an alpha channel), and change its mode to "Color" in the layers dialog, you get nice results displayed above. The original tutorial can be found here. Drawing Shapes with Bezier Tool. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Tuomas Kuosmanen and may not be used without permission of the author. Intention The Path Tool (replacing the old Bezier Selection tool) can be used in many creative ways. Maybe the best thing in it is the smooth, beautiful curves it produces. But you can also use paths to create different polygonal shapes if you don't 'pull out the handles'. Shapes with Paths!? This tutorial is about making simple geometrical shapes with GIMP. Notice! Let's get started! First we must create a new image for our creation. 1. Now create a new transparent layer, and name it Left_side so you know what layer I'll talk about later on.
Imagine the blue cube on the right side into your canvas, we'll be doing side #1 now. Choose the Path tool and make something like the side #1 on the blue cube, think about the perspective. You can adjust the points' places if you can't get them right at the first try, see the Path tutorial for more information on that. 2. Hint! 3. 4. Tigert.