Aloysius
13th August 2010, 05:23
This is the first tutorial I have ever written, so bear with me.
No, I'm not doing any requests. I'll probably be pretty busy, what with my schooling and all.
No pics for now 'cause I'm a "noob".
Adapted pretty much word for word from Anomic's tutorial with some changes.
1. Choose your image and save it to you computer, we'll resize it later.
2. Open a new image, 80x80, RGB, preferably.
3. Click a colour box, doesn't matter which. In the box labeled HTML notation, type "#ff00df" for pink and "#00fa40" for green.
4. Go to File>Open as Layers and find your image. Click "Open".
5. Zoom out untill you can see the whole image, or at least the yellow dotted outlines.
6. Position the image so that one corner is aligned with the corresponding corner on the 80x80 image.
7. Use the Scale Tool and grab the opposite corner of the newer image and drag that corner to the corresponding corner of the smaller image. This is, of course, assuming you've chosen a square image. If not, make sure you scale it proportionally.
8. Make sure you have the Kanye Glasses (from the Kanye West Glasses thread), then open that image using the Open as Layers command and find the file., click Open.
9. Position them on the face of whoever you're Westifying.
10. If the face is at an angle, check out Anomic's thread. It's stickied, so it should be easy to find. It's essentially the same thing, but with a few differences, like tool names.
Besides, he probably explains it better than I'd be able to.
11. To rotate the glasses, if it be needed, make sure the layer with the glasses is selcted, go to Layer>Transform>Arbitrary Rotation, then adjust the Angle until you've got it.
12. Select the Free Select tool (it looks identical to the lasso tool in Photoshop.) and drag it around the person you're Kanye-Westifying. It helps to zoom in for the trickier bits. Make sure the entire thing is outlined.
13. If the actual person you want to Kanye-Westify was selected, got to Select>Invert to select the background.
14. Select the layer "Background" and then the Bucket Fill tool. Depending on wheter the foreground or background colour box is filled with that pink colour, choose the Fill Type: FG or BG. You should be smart enough to figure out which is which.
Fill the Background layer with the pink.
15. Click the drop-down menu and select Multiply.
16. Select the layer with your person or object on it and go to Colours> Desaturate, click okay, then go to Colours>Brightness-Contrast. Adjust as according to what you like.
17. This si where your screwed. I simply cannot find a GIMP equivalent to Photoshop's Layer Styles thingy already in the program. There might be something floating around on the interwebs, but I haven't looked for it.
If you can get past this, you are a far better GIMPer than I.
I'll post pics when I can.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: Probably should've told you, but this is for regular GIMP with no "foreign" plugins or anything. If you want something more like Photoshop, check out GIMPshop. I haven't used it, but it might have Layer Styles or something like it one there. Here's a (broken) link to a plugin : ht tp://registry.gimp.org/node/186
Thanks again.
No, I'm not doing any requests. I'll probably be pretty busy, what with my schooling and all.
No pics for now 'cause I'm a "noob".
Adapted pretty much word for word from Anomic's tutorial with some changes.
1. Choose your image and save it to you computer, we'll resize it later.
2. Open a new image, 80x80, RGB, preferably.
3. Click a colour box, doesn't matter which. In the box labeled HTML notation, type "#ff00df" for pink and "#00fa40" for green.
4. Go to File>Open as Layers and find your image. Click "Open".
5. Zoom out untill you can see the whole image, or at least the yellow dotted outlines.
6. Position the image so that one corner is aligned with the corresponding corner on the 80x80 image.
7. Use the Scale Tool and grab the opposite corner of the newer image and drag that corner to the corresponding corner of the smaller image. This is, of course, assuming you've chosen a square image. If not, make sure you scale it proportionally.
8. Make sure you have the Kanye Glasses (from the Kanye West Glasses thread), then open that image using the Open as Layers command and find the file., click Open.
9. Position them on the face of whoever you're Westifying.
10. If the face is at an angle, check out Anomic's thread. It's stickied, so it should be easy to find. It's essentially the same thing, but with a few differences, like tool names.
Besides, he probably explains it better than I'd be able to.
11. To rotate the glasses, if it be needed, make sure the layer with the glasses is selcted, go to Layer>Transform>Arbitrary Rotation, then adjust the Angle until you've got it.
12. Select the Free Select tool (it looks identical to the lasso tool in Photoshop.) and drag it around the person you're Kanye-Westifying. It helps to zoom in for the trickier bits. Make sure the entire thing is outlined.
13. If the actual person you want to Kanye-Westify was selected, got to Select>Invert to select the background.
14. Select the layer "Background" and then the Bucket Fill tool. Depending on wheter the foreground or background colour box is filled with that pink colour, choose the Fill Type: FG or BG. You should be smart enough to figure out which is which.
Fill the Background layer with the pink.
15. Click the drop-down menu and select Multiply.
16. Select the layer with your person or object on it and go to Colours> Desaturate, click okay, then go to Colours>Brightness-Contrast. Adjust as according to what you like.
17. This si where your screwed. I simply cannot find a GIMP equivalent to Photoshop's Layer Styles thingy already in the program. There might be something floating around on the interwebs, but I haven't looked for it.
If you can get past this, you are a far better GIMPer than I.
I'll post pics when I can.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: Probably should've told you, but this is for regular GIMP with no "foreign" plugins or anything. If you want something more like Photoshop, check out GIMPshop. I haven't used it, but it might have Layer Styles or something like it one there. Here's a (broken) link to a plugin : ht tp://registry.gimp.org/node/186
Thanks again.