Re: GIMP/Photoshop Thread

[Sialboats]

Alright, I was kinda feeling like making a Tutorial... and I did . Expect more of this from now on . When I become bored, I'll do some picture-based tutorials and post 'em. It's about time I started spreading the intellectual wealth, anyways .

So, you take your fellow you want with a gaping, bloody hole in his body, and crop/perspective him into position. Go ahead and de-saturate him (apply grayscale) and colorize/color balance our target to your choice of color. I chose green, in this case - seeing as it's easily identifiable as a military-night-vision-majigger color. Everybody would assume it was some sort of optics package, even if you left it bereft of the detail that you're going to give it later. You don't necessarily even have to colorize it, but you should apply other changes so it appears as though you're looking through a lens. GIMP has two major lens features, one in Lighting And Shadows, and one in Distorts. Apply some noise of your choice, making the subject seem appropriately obfuscated by the technology's deficiencies.



Make a transparent layer, and go ahead and airbrush a black circle around him. The reason why I like a separate layer is so that if you make a mistake, it's easily rectified by erasing the malformed portion of the work off, instead of having to re-do all work removed by the undo. It also allows you to move the layer over the desired area of vision if you don't like the one you started with. If you do the aforementioned, don't forget to crop any cut-off corners out of the image.



Now you could do just two black lines intersecting one another, pathed onto the picture; but we want something with a little more detail than that . I used the laser technique, screening a black layer and pathing some paintbrush white lines on it. I also added some Aurabesh to it, and made another screened layer with some stipples as another rangefinding element for our sniper. Play around with it some; find what looks best to you and add it into the mix.



Go ahead and play around with your layers, colorize the paintbrushed lines and the text, add a nice laser sight if your sniper's murdering machine is outfitted with one, and don't forget to add some more distortion to the layers you've added to make it seem believable.






And in no more than five minutes, you've GIMPed up a splendid ticket to hell for your mortal foe .

[Alpha]

Eh, should I crop that and use it for my signature?

I'm too lazy to translate the Aurebesh, what's it say?

[Zepher]

How do you get Aurebrush too? I can't find it anywhere. I feel liek you guys have WAY more tools then me.

[Jens]

How do you get Aurebrush too? I can't find it anywhere. I feel liek you guys have WAY more tools then me.

That's because we do.

http://www.galacticempire.net/fonts/

[Bizzle]

Ok so I really need some help. I haven't been able to figure these out on my own so I am turning to you people.


I need help with making lights glow. I can't find supernova anywhere. Is it a add on? Or is there another way to make lights look like they are glowing?


I would also like to know how sial does that smoke/fire that was seen in the 541st Chronicles when the gunner is shot off of the speeder bike thing.


Any help/tutorials would be awesome.

[CloneCommando66]

I have this problem Like bizzle

[Thunder-blade]

0.o

Sial made a tutorial.

[Bizzle]

0.o

Sial made a tutorial.

I know I was shocked too....

If only he would help me with my requests!....


I am going to have to use that in the future sial. Very awesome.

[Dutch]

This is my frist try at flames but I think it came out great. Also did I add to many flames ?

[Thunder-blade]

Looks great! Not very flame-like, but its a pretty cool effect!

[Darman]

I have to decided that I will never figure out Gimp. Well motley I am just pissed off that the speech bubbles aren't working correctly for me.

[Thunder-blade]

To all those who can't figure out GIMP...

I'd recommend thepaint.net...

[Darman]

To all those who can't figure out GIMP...

I'd recommend thepaint.net...

Wait a second you can add layers in paint now?

[Thunder-blade]

Use google. The program is called ThePaint.net.

[Sialboats]

Okay, on the request of Gerrard:

[C]ould you show me a dust tutorial if possible? You know, sort of a "Dusty Room" like in the Cantina Mos Eisley [reference] pic you showed me?

Thanks[!]

I'm just going to do a quick little tutorial on dust in general, the Supernova tool, and lighting. Don't fret, though, I haven't forgotten about that earlier glowie-object tutorial request, and it WILL BE POSTED THIS WEEK. Vendetta won't be, probably, but I'll at least get that tutorial out .

Now, the biggest part of this is gradients. All colored smoke you'll be doing will most likely have to be done through gradients if you're going to be using a brush that is pre-colored. In my case, I'll be using an fire airbrush, set to a custom gradient. Custom gradients can be made by "Editing" the gradient list (accessed at the bottom of that drop-down menu), and then creating a new one. You can change gradients on any tool: paintbrushes (seen here), airbrushes, pencils, paths, anything where colors are being applied.



The room has to be dark, and dingy. This dilapidated, dusty structure in the Hive of Scum and Villainy didn't have brand new ilumnigrids, but grime-covered florescents, and the light that streamed in from the entrance. So let's use the lighting effects tool.

This tool has to be THE MOST useful one for environments. You can darken a setting, lighten it up, create dawn, dusk, deserts, jungles, so forth. Lighting is important, and this tool gives you some very useful options. The color can be changed, the potion can be changed, the overall luminosity, glowing potential, brightness, and other attributes can be manipulated through easy to use sliders under the "Material"'s tab. "Bump Map", and "Enviroment Map" I haven't really used in thoroughness yet, so don't worry about them.



To achieve the fullest range of light location manipulation possible, slide the distance slider to the maximum end, allowing the light to grow, but ensuring that you keep it prominently located in the center of your screen. Then, take that blue dot in the center of the sphere of light, and drag it off the map to the location you want the light to be at. This may not always work (it may crash, or it may go all blue), and if you make a mistake, you will have to set that slider back to zero and begin anew. So, it's advisable you have a pretty good idea as to where you need the point to be, prior to manipulating it's position.


Now, here I've created several transparent layers, and applied varying degrees of textured smoke and Gaussianed smoke using my airbrush, set to a fire brush (you can use just about any brush, but to different effects; diversify your brush set and experiment too!), on different layer settings (an imprecise art, as is most of this, so see what works best for your situation). "Dab" the smoke onto the layer by using brief mouse clicks. Try not to drag most brushes, and keep them large. Be warned, however: On some of the custom made brushes, downloaded from the interwebs, it's electronic suicide to put them on 10.00, as you'll hang the GIMP client due to their massive size at that scale.



Several layers later, and we arrive at the Supernova. The supernova is found under Filters/Lighting and Shadows (I think) and can be applied on any layer, on any setting, providing a wide range of results. It can be used as lights, bombs, blaster flare, sunlight, and can be applied to as many different scenarios you can conceive. In this case, I'm using it to simulate the sunlight streaming into the cantina from a nearby entrance.




I applied more layers of dust, more supernovas, and erased portions of both at my discretion. As I said before: there is not a single set way of going about this all. Just do what you feel will look the best, and work with it from there.




I overdid the smoke a little on this one, but I think it doesn't look half bad .

[Commander Lukas]

Here's some of the suff I did.





There is only one trooper here. Same guy, two guns.


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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.

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