Re: GIMP/Photoshop Thread

[Commander Lukas]

Here's some of the suff I did.





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This is the logo for an upcoming movie I and a freind are working on:
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I made this for some one on FAILpages a while back(2007) I think:

[Zepher]

I don't have the fire brush.

Can someone teach me how to download fonts/brushes? That would be a wonderful tutorial!

but seriously, I have no idea, and it's super annoying.

[Commander Lukas]

Why don't you try to google "fire brushes for GIMP?"

[Sialboats]

I don't have the fire brush.

Can someone teach me how to download fonts/brushes? That would be a wonderful tutorial!

but seriously, I have no idea, and it's super annoying.

Go to wherever your GIMP is downloaded, the GIMP folder where the .exe is. For me that's:

:C/Program Files/GIMP-2.0.

Once you're in the GIMP folder, your path would then look like:

/share/gimp/2.0/brushes

In the "brushes" subfolder, you download your brushes. Just plop the files in there. The next time you open up GIMP, they'll be in the brushes' dialog box, ready for your usage .

[Thunder-blade]

Or if you have trouble finding the folder, do it the long way.

My computer>Local Disk>Program Files>GIMP 2.0>Share>gimp>2.0>brushes

[Zepher]

That is incredibly helpful Sial! I'm in your debt.. again... and again.

This is perhaps the first time that I've been in your debt three times in one day, so new record!

Can someone suggest a few brushes that I should be looking into?

[Thunder-blade]

Anything from here is good. But overall just start googling.

[Gerrard]

Looks excellent, thanks again man.

[Sialboats]

After inumerable requests, I decided to sit down and write a tutorial on what really is a fairly simple process: adding glow effects to an object.

Firstly, your friend is a New Black Layer, set to SCREEN. Screen is one of the many layer settings GIMP provides us with, and it essentially "screens" all the black from a layer, leaving the remaining light colors. Go ahead and create and screen a black layer over your image, and then set your paintbrush to the diameter of the bolt/light/saber you want to create. Go to the paths tool, make a path in the position and direction of the bolt, and then click "Stroke Path". Make sure you check the second series of options in the dialog box, and set it to Paintbrush.



So, now you have your line. A white, plain, relatively unremarkable line. If it's a little chunky, run a 5.0 gaussian by it before going to the Color Balance tool. In the color balance tool (still with the screened black layer selected) you can manipulate these sliders to cause various colors to be expressed in the white. In this case, I want something blue. Make sure to use all sliders availible for a thoroughly brilliant effect; shadows, highlights, and midtones.



Once you've completed your color balancing, duplicate that black layer several times over. Five should be sufficent. For each one, starting at the first and working to the last, gaussian blur each one in increasing amounts of blur. Fifteen for the first, thirty for the second, sixty for the third, one twenty for the fourth, two fourty for the fifth. But, as I've already averred in other tutorials, GIMP isn't really a precise art, so do what looks best to you. The same screening and gaussianing can also be used for fire, sparks, and holograms to add some luminosity to the mix.




And I think we've all seen the finished product in Zeph's latest comic !

[Dutch]

Thank you so much sail I just love to learn about gimp and its many uses.
Speaking of gimp here’s my newest gimp out Commander Cody.

C&C Welcomed

[Thunder-blade]

Very nice pic! Cody is perfect! (the coloration of Cody contrasting the background is superb!)

[Sialboats]

Rule Number one about GIMP: Color.

It's all about the colors. If the colors don't work, the picture sort of sucks - not that I'm saying this is rotten, far from it ! Now while they're both in warm colors, the background and his armor, both colors aren't represented in each other. Yellow detailing in the pathed bottom, or a greyscaled version of him would be better. Furthermore, I do not like those little... black blotches in the background .

It's nice, though!










Oh, since seeing as only two people saw this in my thread in the "Other Creations Forum", here's a little poster I did .



"Fight The Imperialists"
After Bandomeer's colonial government was overthrown, and replaced with a radical revolutionary as President, the Bandomeerian people quickly needed to form a defense force to stave off the inevitable reprisals that their nationalization of Republic industry on the world, and their cancellation of invaluable mining contracts would bring. Knowing the CIS alone would not protect them, the Bandomeerians made use of the innumerable R2, R3, and R4 Astromech components in mines throughout the planet. Private citizens who were not members of the "Bandomeerian Liberation Front", but who had experience working with droids in their jobs at Ore Processing Facilities, strip mines, and in their private lives, could upgrade the innocuous droids into weapon platforms using whatever spare parts they could find to optimize their AI, reinforce their chassis, and prepare the droid for weapons outfitting. When ready for it's armament, the Militia would work with the civilians to install a suitable weapon back at one of their many headquarters. The "Blastromech" as it was affectionately dubbed, not only served as the poster project for Government-Civilian cooperation, but functioned as a Squad Support weapon for the beleaguered militia units.

[Darman]

Well after a lot of going through boxes and buying a shovel. I have finally found my version of the (What year was it?) 2007 adobe photo shop or Adobe photo shop 4.0. So I am going to see what kick arse things I can do with it. Now I can do what I always have desired.... Scrap booking .

[Zepher]

Please. Not see it Sial. I'm currently working on my very only Blastromech

[Dutch]

Thank you sail and T.B for your commets.

Anyway is this any better?

[Sialboats]

Way better. Way, way better. Good use of the emboss/engrave tool, and excellent usage of the brushes .



He who is second only to Jack Bauer, approves, too .

[Thunder-blade]

Very Nice! Black and White go well with the rest of the pic in this case!

[Gerrard]

Alot better, it looks pretty sweet. Though just to add, maybe make on color stick out?

[Dutch]

Thanks everyone for your comments.
This is not as good but I want your thoughts on it. Thanks


An avatar I made for a friend.

[Thunder-blade]

Bottom one is very Sialesque.