Sure. Fill this out as best you can~

Style: Post header, avatar, signature..what?
Background Picture: Either give me a link or a good description.
Main Picture: Same as background picture.
Text: What do you want it to say, if anything?
Effect: What effect, if any? REMEMBER I can only do a limited amount of effects. But go ahead and ask. ^^
Anything else: I'm forgetful, so there might be something important I forgot to ask!!

Those are really cool Luminus. 

Wow, Luminus! Those are excellent graphics. What program do you use?

And Writing, that's awesome! It all comes together so well.

WritingWulf wrote:

punxnotdead wrote:

Wow, Luminus! Those are excellent graphics. What program do you use?

And Writing, that's awesome! It all comes together so well.

I know right?! She's really good with this stuff!

I definately agree. I need to learn some of that virtual vudoo.

Hooray for the GIMP!

First you want to open a new thing up. ^^ Any size will do. Then you take your background picture, paste it, and paste what you want over it. Then using the eraser, perferably "fuzzy," get rid of the excess stuff around the top picture so it blends. Then you can flatten the layers so they are merged! To add text you just..click da A. x3 And to change colors, choose the air brush, change the "normal" setting to "color" and go over it! ^^

I understood that pretty well

What kind of effects are you looking for?

Mmm...let me make it like this, m'kay? It might be easier to follow.

~SIMPLE GUIDE TO GIMP~

First of all, you'll want to make sure that you have downloaded GIMP and it is open. If all is functioning correctly, let's roll!

Step 1: Go to file, click new. This is where you can put in specific sizes. Yes, this can be altered later. You just need to modify the canvas size, but if you are making it larger it might mess your picture up. So a rough span of what you need is generally a good idea!

Step 2: Find a background picture. It could really be anything, let's use my "Crystalstar" one for an example. I found a background picture of a starry night sky. Now you copy that picture, and paste it onto your canvas. If it is larger than the canvas, you can move the picture around so what you want in that space is showing.

Step 3: Get the picture you want atop of it. In my example, I used a cat. Once again, you copy the picture and paste it to your canvas. Right now they are layers.

Step 4: So now what? Most likely there is excess stuff on the other picture, that you want to get rid of in order for the background to show up. Make sure you are on the correct layer, now choose the eraser. You want to make sure to change it to "Circle Fuzzy" this gives it a more natural and blended appearence. You can mess with the opacity, and the scale as well. The numbers behind "Circle Fuzzy" are the differece in size. After selecting this, you want to carefully go around your picture. There was a house orginally in the cat picture example. But I got rid of that, as close to the cat as I could.

Step 5: Once you have it erased, and positioned however, you can add text. To add text you just click the big A and put it where you want it.

Step 6: If you want to make this easy, simply flatten the layers so they become one. And then save the picture! I recommend saving the picture as a ".png" it really makes it easier.

~GIMP EXTRA THINGS~

Colors: Colors of things can be changed, for example, I changed the eye color in the "Crystalstar" example. To do that, select the airbrush. Where it says mode, you should change that to say "color" instead of normal. Opacity should remain at 100, and you should still be using "Circle Fuzzy." Select the color that you want, and go over what you want to change!

Fonts: Want different fonts? Go to this site www.dafont.com and download the fonts. Extract the downloaded file. Now go to "My Computer, Local Disk (C: ), Windows, Fonts." Once you click fonts, you should click "move." It will then install the fonts.

~EFFECTS~

I don't really know how to do effects with GIMP, I know a very little amount like the circles I've added behind some fonts in the dog pictures. I will type up how to do that later. As for the lightening and stuff? I use www.lunapic.com/editor/

Last edited by LuminusPup (2008-10-09 16:02:27)