| Collateral | 07-01-2005 10:05 AM |
I tried it out and it is a lot of fun. Do you make all of your sigs with it? THey look really pretty.
For anyone and everyone, I recommend it!
For anyone and everyone, I recommend it!
Image Editing Tutorials
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| Originally posted by Collateral I tried it out and it is a lot of fun. Do you make all of your sigs with it? THey look really pretty. |
All of my image making (pans, avatars, sigs, etc.) is now done in GIMP. Thanks for the compliment on my sigs, by the way. I'm having a good time messing around with this program, and as I continue to make more images, I start to discover new things, as seen in my updated tutorials. My discovery with GIMP was when I was looking for a free image editing program. I saw The GIMP for Windows, and I downloaded it, and messed with it. However, I wasn't really pleased with it at first because it couldn't do some of the things I wanted, so I stuck with Paint Shop Pro for a while longer. Then I started to switch to Linux, and Paint Shop Pro didn't work too well with WINE, so I gave GIMP another try, and I finally liked the program. It's now one of the programs I use regularly now.
When I looked at this thread again (with the old outdated tutorials), I wanted to fix some of the things I've said earlier, and also remove some tutorials that were not useful at all. I've spent a lot of time using GIMP that I decided to rewrite a lot of the tutorials using this program. You'll also notice that I've added some new tutorials as well. These were things that I've discovered as I experimented with The GIMP. I hope that the tutorials have been useful for the users here at Paradigm City Forums, even if The GIMP is not a program that you use. This is why I encourage people to post their own tutorials on image editing using their favorite program, such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc.
Anyway, that's my story behind this new updated thread. I hope it's been useful for the users here.
By the way, if anyone wants to post their own tutorial with their favorite program, you may do so here.
Required Software: Photoshop (this should work with anything V. 6 or higher)
Difficulty Level: Easy
Part 1
First things first. Extracting an Image. Skip this stage if you just want to edit the whol image.
Step one: find an image. For this, I'm using a picture of Edward.
Step Two:
Click on the Image Mask button on your layers. This will add a mask to the layer and allow you to edit without actually affecting the image.
Step three:
Zoom up about 200%. Or at least so you can make a clear look at the outline. Take the polygonal lasso tool and outline the edge of the image. Do it in sections, or it'll be a lot to do.
Step Four:
Once you've got the little blinking line, right click in the space and select "fill". Fill it with Black. You'll get something close to this: (or it will fill up with black. Mine goes transparent, either works.)
Step Five:
Do this until you're left with only the image you want to have left. Mine's done sloppy, and I'll show you a neater version that I did a couple nights ago of Kite from .hack. Anyway, once that's done, right click on the layer mask and select "apply layer mask". This will apply the mask and the image will be left.
Part 2
Step One:
Keep the picture's transparency. Now, take the image and duplicate the layer by dragging the first layer to "New Layer".
Step Two:
Make sure you're on the top later and go to "filter". Go to "Noise" then "median."
Step three:
Set the layer blending to either overlay, soft light, or hard light. Whatever you think looks best. Fiddle with other blending options too and see what you get. For this, I'm using the overlay option.
Step four:
If you're satisfied with the image in step three, then skip this. If not, and you still think there's some grain or something, select the original layer (or duplicate it again, and put this layer between the first and the second). Go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur. You don't have to change any settings, but if you fiddle with it, you might get something better.
now all that's left is to combine the two or three layers together and add effects. Voila! It's done, and your image looks a bit better than before.
Like I said, mine's a bit sloppy, since I took all of five minutes on everything. So yeah, make your extracting a bit better. This image wasn't the greatest either, since there was text all over Ed...
Difficulty Level: Easy
Part 1
First things first. Extracting an Image. Skip this stage if you just want to edit the whol image.
Step one: find an image. For this, I'm using a picture of Edward.
Step Two:
Click on the Image Mask button on your layers. This will add a mask to the layer and allow you to edit without actually affecting the image.
Step three:
Zoom up about 200%. Or at least so you can make a clear look at the outline. Take the polygonal lasso tool and outline the edge of the image. Do it in sections, or it'll be a lot to do.
Step Four:
Once you've got the little blinking line, right click in the space and select "fill". Fill it with Black. You'll get something close to this: (or it will fill up with black. Mine goes transparent, either works.)
Step Five:
Do this until you're left with only the image you want to have left. Mine's done sloppy, and I'll show you a neater version that I did a couple nights ago of Kite from .hack. Anyway, once that's done, right click on the layer mask and select "apply layer mask". This will apply the mask and the image will be left.
Part 2
Step One:
Keep the picture's transparency. Now, take the image and duplicate the layer by dragging the first layer to "New Layer".
Step Two:
Make sure you're on the top later and go to "filter". Go to "Noise" then "median."
Step three:
Set the layer blending to either overlay, soft light, or hard light. Whatever you think looks best. Fiddle with other blending options too and see what you get. For this, I'm using the overlay option.
Step four:
If you're satisfied with the image in step three, then skip this. If not, and you still think there's some grain or something, select the original layer (or duplicate it again, and put this layer between the first and the second). Go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur. You don't have to change any settings, but if you fiddle with it, you might get something better.
now all that's left is to combine the two or three layers together and add effects. Voila! It's done, and your image looks a bit better than before.
Like I said, mine's a bit sloppy, since I took all of five minutes on everything. So yeah, make your extracting a bit better. This image wasn't the greatest either, since there was text all over Ed...
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| Originally posted by YoruameBaroness You can use the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools to get rid of the text over Ed. Though I'm sure you knew that already . . . |
I could also use the blending, but that would turn his shirt a funny color.
My version of Photoshop is old too (v. 5.5, yes I'm still in the stone age! 
) So I don't have Healing Brush. T_T Or I can't find it anyway.Wait...when I did this tutorial, I did it on Adobe Image Ready. But it works on photoshop too.
Lately, I've found wallpaper-making to be great fun. I like to use anime scans, but they're raw scans, so I have to do the "extract" myself. I've found a neat but easy trick to help restore the black outlines around the characters after I extract them.
1. After finding a scan I like and doing some basic color adjustments, I carefully erase out whatever I don't like. (To see the original scan, click here.) In this case, it was the original background. But then I'm left with the annoying white pixels around the outsides. Drat! What to do to get rid of those ugly things and help make my extract look more professional?
2. Rather than going around and darkening the the white pixels with the Burn Tool, I do something far less tedious... I apply a Layer Style to help me. I double-click the layer to bring up the Layer Style window, and select the "Inner Glow" category. The Inner Glow style applies a glow to the inside of the layer, rather than the outside of it. Think of it as an inverted Outside Glow.
For what I want to do, I don't want the Inner Glow to "glow", so I change it so it is darkens, instead. I change the initial preset color to black and the Blend Mode to "Linear Burn". Then, I mess around with the other settings (the opacity, the choke, the size, the range, ect.) until the white pixels are covered up. Yay!
3. In some cases, you might need to go a step further and add an Outer Glow layer style in order to make a better or smoother black outline around your picture. I didn't need it for this one, but maybe you might.
And there you have it! An easy-peasy way to make your anime scan extracts look spiffy.
This tutorial featured as an example my One Piece background I've made. To see the finished product, click the thumbnail below!
1. After finding a scan I like and doing some basic color adjustments, I carefully erase out whatever I don't like. (To see the original scan, click here.) In this case, it was the original background. But then I'm left with the annoying white pixels around the outsides. Drat! What to do to get rid of those ugly things and help make my extract look more professional?
2. Rather than going around and darkening the the white pixels with the Burn Tool, I do something far less tedious... I apply a Layer Style to help me. I double-click the layer to bring up the Layer Style window, and select the "Inner Glow" category. The Inner Glow style applies a glow to the inside of the layer, rather than the outside of it. Think of it as an inverted Outside Glow.
For what I want to do, I don't want the Inner Glow to "glow", so I change it so it is darkens, instead. I change the initial preset color to black and the Blend Mode to "Linear Burn". Then, I mess around with the other settings (the opacity, the choke, the size, the range, ect.) until the white pixels are covered up. Yay!
3. In some cases, you might need to go a step further and add an Outer Glow layer style in order to make a better or smoother black outline around your picture. I didn't need it for this one, but maybe you might.
And there you have it! An easy-peasy way to make your anime scan extracts look spiffy.
This tutorial featured as an example my One Piece background I've made. To see the finished product, click the thumbnail below!
