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icycatelf — Simple GIMP Watercolor Tutorial
Published: 2009-06-13 21:41:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 16582; Favourites: 125; Downloads: 302
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I hope this helps some of you guys out.
NOTE: I'm by no means an expert with watercolors. I just thought this effect gave-off a watercolor-y vibe. Probably better for concept art than finalized artwork.
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THIS. I couldn't find anything that matches the watercolour tool in Photoshop in Gimp.
this, this, this. THANK YOU. THAAAANK YOU!!!!
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I have to admit, I think I'm going to be using this tutorial to color ALL of my work from now on. I really like the way it looks!!
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Awesome tutorial. I actually followed it exactly XD Very happy with the results.
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Oh thank you. This is the first truly helpful tutorial on the subject I've seen. I never use the Dodge/Burn. Great method. It looks like you did it with a brush.
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Thank you! I have been trying to make a watercolour appearance on my drawings, but I never knew how, but now I do! Thank you so much!
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You're welcome.
It doesn't look exactly like watercolor, but I called it that because most people thought that's what it looked like.
Nonetheless, I hope it proves useful!
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Great tutorial! Had a lot of fun working with it
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Thanks for doing this! I was wondering how to do it! I played around with mine for a while and tweaked my settings and screened a muted grey/purple over the lines and came up with this. [link]
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You're very welcome. I'm glad I could help. ^^
BTW, it looks good! I love the purple you used.
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the worst of it is that I recently got a commish for water color or watercolor style.
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YAY! I've been looking all over for these, the only tuts I found were for photoshop or cortel painter.
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You're welcome.
I hope it proves useful!
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Wonderful Tutorial! It was easy to follow and My pic looks fantastic! thanks a lot!
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I'm glad it helped! I tried making it as simple as possible.
You're very welcome!
Thanks for faving!
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Thanks. I'm glad you think so.
Thanks for the fave! I hope it proves useful!
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((Ok, I've got as far as step ten. However, there's these little moving dot things on random spots on the image, it won't do any of the blur or oilify stuff, and when I tried to copy and paste the original sketch, more moving dot things showed up and it won't let me save it as a picture, just a project. Help T_T))
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When you paste you image on the new file, try selecting the Magic Wand Tool and click outside the artboard. That should deselect your artwork and make these "marching ants" disappear. These random spots of marching ants are probably caused by artifacts in your drawing (common in JPG images). You can usually get rid of these my raising the contrast of your original drawing by 10-15% before starting on anything else.
If this isn't the problem, let me know. You can link me to the pic you're trying to color and I'll see if I have the same problem. If not, I'll try to step you though the process.
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Great! Just one question....I can't figure out the 'new image' and 'paste' thing. Nothing happens when I hit paste.....I'm a dummy with this program >.< help?
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My only guess is that you forgot to copy the other image before you tried using paste. Be sure to copy your image before creating a new image, then use paste on the new image.
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Hi I gave it a try!!
[link]
I had to change the transparency / opacity of my outline though cause it had a white background and the colors didn't show through as well.. but thank you very much for your guide
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thanks for posting this. it really helps.
here's what i did: [link]
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Awesome job. I'm glad you were able to use it.
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Niiice.
Why don't you upload it to dA?
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urgh. I tried this, followed the instructions exactly, and my colour wont change from grey :/ any idea why?
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Check to see if the image mode is one of these 3: RGB, Grayscale or Indexed. To check this, go to Image>Mode. If the image you are using is a GIF file then it will most likely be Indexed. The mode you want is RGB.
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The only reason I can think of that would cause this is if, when you scanned your image, you had the scanner settings set for greyscale or when you saved your artwork, you saved it as greyscale. Try opening the picture you're trying to color, copy it, then paste it into Paint and save it as a PNG file. Open the new file GIMP and try again.
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i love this coloring style ^^ i used it here :] [link]
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That will be very useful!! I only have a small question..how can I copy the layer? (I'm starting to learn how to use GIMP only recently and I'm still not very confident with the tools)...could you please explain?
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There should be 11 tabs at the top of your GIMP window: File, Edit, Select, View, Image, Layer, Colors, Tools, Filters, Windows, and Help. Click the Layer tab and select New Layer (optionally, click Shift+Ctrl+N). Choose which setting you would like for your background on the resulting menu and click okay. Viola! You have a new layer!
I hope it's useful. :3
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Yep, sure it is! Thank you very much!
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Wow, very clever! I'll have to try this out sometime!
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Thanks. I hope it works out well for you. :3
Thanks for the fave as well.
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Welcome. I hope it does, too! =3
Very welcome.
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