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Fan Area => Fan Art => Topic started by: Monketh on March 21, 2004, 08:01:50 pm

Title: Tutorial: "GIMP'ing" an image
Post by: Monketh on March 21, 2004, 08:01:50 pm

Some people are curious as to how How I and Kintall color our images. (namely, Quwaar : P)
I can\'t say anything for Kintall, since he has photoshop, but this is what I do.

(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/t1.jpg)
First, let\'s start off with a scan, nothing particularly fancy here.


(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/w1.jpg)
(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/w2.jpg)
I generally create a layer for the skin(body), Face, Clothes, and Hair.
This is so that if I mess-up very little colateral damage will result.
Remember: When coloring an image, the Layers window is your best friend.  


(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/t2.jpg)
Here is an incomplete line art of the image (notice lines for the hair are missing).  The tool I usually use for lines is the paintbrush, but I have chosen to use the pencil for this sketch.


(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/w3.jpg)
Once I\'m done \'tracing\', I create a white background layer called \"Color\".

(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/t3.jpg)
This is finished lineart.


(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/w4.jpg)
Then, I create a copy of each of the line layers and merge them down into the color layer.  The fill tool completes basic coloring.  After that, I take the pencil again and outline the whites of the eyes.

(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/t4.jpg)
Colored.

(http://img20.photobucket.com/albums/v59/Monketh/t5.jpg)
Since I used the pencil on this sketch, I might seek to loosen it up a bit by applying blur to each of the line layers

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Post by: Quwaar on March 21, 2004, 10:30:45 pm

haha, thx just what I asked for on the forums. Now let me check it out, tomorrow :)

What proggie do you use?

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Post by: Axsyrus on March 21, 2004, 10:32:09 pm

lol

*points at the title of this thread*

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Tutorial: \"GIMP\'ing\" an image

http://www.gimp.org/ ;)

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Post by: Quwaar on March 22, 2004, 08:54:44 am

Thx Axy :) How could I have known?

Well anyways, Im gonna try it as soon as I get home

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Post by: Thardin on March 22, 2004, 10:46:53 am

Just one more question, but thanks for the info! :)

Let\'s say I got two layers. One is red on the left and white on the right. The other is blue on the right and white on the left (not transparent!). How do I \'merge\' them into one image with red left and blue right?

Thanks.

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Post by: Thardin on March 22, 2004, 11:45:57 am

Making the parts of the layer you don\'t want fully transparent seems the best solution.

Photoshop works about the same (got it at school). It\'s got the same options, same functions as the Gimp, the only difference is the price. :)

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Post by: Kintall on March 22, 2004, 03:37:05 pm

umm... if anyones curius how I do the colouring thingie, mines as simple as

1)scan the scetch in

2)make new layer and use a 5 pixel maximum diameter hard brush ( I use a computer pen thing too, I think its called a \"stylus\") to ink the lines
 
3) I go bucket crazy and put the basic colours in on separate layers

4)then I make layers on top of the original colour region and group them to previous layer (ctrl+G) and shade/highlight them that way (its so I can just rub out or toy with the highlights or colours  separately)

5)and then I have coffee because I finished a pic and deserve one

6) THE END :)


there has to be a better way...

and some better coffee this stuff is...   well its sure as hell not good thats for sure

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Post by: Thardin on March 22, 2004, 05:54:55 pm

Considering your work Kintall, why bother with a different way? It looks awesome. :)

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Post by: Icefalcon on March 23, 2004, 09:42:38 pm

Ive got a question, how do you add your your own patterns? In that little pattern dialog...

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Post by: Jedi on March 23, 2004, 10:24:50 pm

Open a new window (keep it small) and draw the desired pattern in black and white. Then select all and go Edit>Define Pattern...  Save it and from now on, you will be able to load it in the pattern fill.

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Post by: Thardin on March 24, 2004, 11:32:46 am

That\'s the photoshop way, here is the gimp way: ;)

Make a small image (can be coloured, anything you like).

Offset it (make sure it is tileable).
Merge all layers.
Flatten your image.

Save it to this directory (as a PAT file).
C:\\Program Files\\GIMP\\share\\gimp\\1.2\\patterns (windows users.)

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Post by: Icefalcon on March 24, 2004, 09:42:39 pm

Oh thx, I was wondering why Jedi\'s answer didn\'t work...