Normally, I won’t post videos with commercial content, but the artist has some serious talent and he is using GIMP to draw and paint. Roman is also an advocate for the beginner artist. (Read comments under Akitsu, here.) See the video for yourself: Tweet This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Stumble This [...]
(Click to enlarge) I have upgraded GIMP to version 2.6.10. Step 1: Find a photograph (any photograph will do). For this project, I decided to use this image of Wild Horse Island at Flathead Lake: Feel free to use this image for the tutorial. (Click the photo to enlarge it) Crop the water area of [...]
Images rendered in GIMP using Jasc Animation Shop 3.11. (This animation (above) tends to have problems loading from time to time.) Images rendered in GIMP and animated using GAP. 4 frames at (250ms) GAP is (50ms slower than JAS) for those who noticed the speed difference. Added a colored background. Why no tutorial? Because the [...]
I was "Googling" seamless vector patterns yesterday and came across some tutorials that explained how to make seamless patterns using Photoshop and Illustrator. Now, I realize many of my own tutorials are fairly long, and I also realize people want to do things in as few steps as possible, (unfortunately not everything can be accomplished [...]
Before we get started, a few tips for GIMP beginners: If you have a wheel on your mouse and its listed as active on your GIMP input controllers preferences, you can use the wheel to select through fonts, font sizes, etc much quicker than you can scroll through the lists. Watch this video to [...]
Step 1: First, we need to create the brush that will be used to help us create 3D like images. Open a new drawing with white background, add a transparent layer, name it "top". I made my drawing 640 x 640px @ 300 DPI. On the transparent layer, using the Ellipse tool, draw out an [...]
Retro Dots I found two tutorials on making retro dots. So either, 1) they're not all that popular, or 2) people are just using the circle selection or brushes to create them. Whichever the case, even if its all of the above or something else, the two tutorials I read on making them were just [...]
My last post was a sort of introduction to the usefulness of the shape path script. If you haven't read that or downloaded the script, you can check that here. The use of paths really speeds up and enhances your images. Let's get started with the sun clip art: Step 1: Open a new drawing [...]
Step 1: Open a new drawing with a white background, add a new transparent layer, name it "wings". Follow similar steps found in my Dragonfly tutorial shown in Step 1. The shape of the wings will be somewhat different, but the concept of how they are made remains the same. Draw out one set of wings [...]
Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Step 1: Open an image of any size to suit yourself, with a white background. (I am using 640 x 640 @ 300dpi). Create a new transparent layer and name it "Wings". Use the path tool to draw one set of wings, like shown (think maple [...]