Does Anyone know how to use GIMP?

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I literally started using Gimp yesterday and I barely know how it works.

Is anyone an expert on Gimp or at least knows a decent amount about it?

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I’m fairly good with it, what do you need to know?

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I need to know how to add glowing eye effects, add brightness in particular places as well as shadows, I also need to know how to cut multiple sections out of a picture instead of having one huge strand.

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I did and this pretty much speak to itself.

FOC Sunstorm.png601Ă—890 371 KB

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Okay I’ll try and go over this comprehensively, I feel like I should do videos on this! :smile:

Here’s my process:

  • Using the Lasso tool (looks like a lasso), select both the eyes (you can make more than one selection by holding â– â– â– â– â– ).
  • Pick a base color you want for the eyes and color them in.
  • Use the Smudge tool (the little finger icon) to soften out the edges.
  • Using the eye color, select a really light, almost white version of that color. Paint a highlight in the middle of the eye using that color on a low opacity and blend it in using the Smudge tool.
  • Make a new layer by right clicking on the Layers window and selecting “New Layer”. Name it whatever you want.
  • On that layer, make your brush size bigger than the eyes themselves, or however big you want the glow radius to be. Select your original eye color and using a low opacity make a small sort of circle around both eyes.
  • Repeat the same process with white as your color on even lower opacity.
  • Blend using the Smudge tool if you wish.
  • If the character has a mask or something blocking the eye light, use the Lasso tool to cut out where the light wouldn’t radiate.

That should get you a nice looking glowing eye effect like this:

Lewcarius_Main_edit.JPG2647Ă—1984 2.45 MB

Here’s what I would do:

  • With the Brush tool, change to mode to Overlay.This way you can paint on the subject without going outside its borders.
  • To add shadows, use black and paint over the places you want the shadows to be. If you want them lighter or darker, change the opacity.
  • To add highlights, use white and do the same.

A lot simpler, eh?

I’m not too sure what this means, but I’ll give it a shot. The simplest way to have multiple selections is to use the Lasso tool and hold ■■■■■ for more than one selection! Otherwise, you can just make many single selections to cut out multiple parts of an image!

Hope it helped!

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Thank you so much, this helped a lot!

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I haven’t used gimp in over a year but I used to be fair at it.