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Description
A basic guide to The GIMP.

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To resize images, go to "Image>Scale Image" or to crop, select the area you want to remain, and go to "Image>Crop to Selection"

The purpose of the mysterious gray blotch in this tutorial is to keep the brushes from "interrupting" the main focus of the photomanip. If you WANT brushes to be running through faces/whatnot, you can skip the gray blotch step, but it'll make your work look more messy.

Also, you can use a solid color or another photo for the color layer. I prefer using gradients because they're fairly simple.

It should also be noted, that this style works best with images that have a background you want to keep. For images with a white/solid color/boring background you should use the Free Select Tool to take out the image first, and continue. You'll probably need to use more color layers in order to make the background interesting.

To change an image to just one color (it's like black and white with a color laid on it), go to "Colors>Colorize" and play with the sliders.

In order to preserve your layers and transparency, save your file as a .xcf. I think GIMP can also save as a .psd, and it can open .psds. But don't quote me on that XD To save a final image, right click on the layer window and select "flatten image" and save as a .jpg. If you want to preserve transparency in your final, exportable image, save as a .png. .gifs can handle animation.

I use brushes from and in this tutorial. In order to get brushes into GIMP, find your C drive, and go to Program Files. Find GIMP's folder and go to "Share>gimp>2.0>brushes" and just drag the brushes into the folder.

go here to download GIMP for Windows: [link]

I'd love to see what you all make using this tutorial so link me if you do something!

If you have any questions on how to do things, just ask =O

Description
A basic guide to The GIMP.

...

To resize images, go to "Image>Scale Image" or to crop, select the area you want to remain, and go to "Image>Crop to Selection"

The purpose of the mysterious gray blotch in this tutorial is to keep the brushes from "interrupting" the main focus of the photomanip. If you WANT brushes to be running through faces/whatnot, you can skip the gray blotch step, but it'll make your work look more messy.

Also, you can use a solid color or another photo for the color layer. I prefer using gradients because they're fairly simple.

It should also be noted, that this style works best with images that have a background you want to keep. For images with a white/solid color/boring background you should use the Free Select Tool to take out the image first, and continue. You'll probably need to use more color layers in order to make the background interesting.

To change an image to just one color (it's like black and white with a color laid on it), go to "Colors>Colorize" and play with the sliders.

In order to preserve your layers and transparency, save your file as a .xcf. I think GIMP can also save as a .psd, and it can open .psds. But don't quote me on that XD To save a final image, right click on the layer window and select "flatten image" and save as a .jpg. If you want to preserve transparency in your final, exportable image, save as a .png. .gifs can handle animation.

I use brushes from and in this tutorial. In order to get brushes into GIMP, find your C drive, and go to Program Files. Find GIMP's folder and go to "Share>gimp>2.0>brushes" and just drag the brushes into the folder.

go here to download GIMP for Windows: [link]

I'd love to see what you all make using this tutorial so link me if you do something!

If you have any questions on how to do things, just ask =O