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Stephanelly — Making Watermarks in GIMP
Published: 2009-11-06 05:21:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 4066; Favourites: 87; Downloads: 160
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Seriously? More than 30 faves? I posted this thing more than seven months ago, and I'm still getting people faving it. ... YES! It's actually understandable and useable! 
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Yea, now I notice my typos and stuff. -_-; But, I'm really lazy, and this felt like it took forever to do, so I'm not fixing it... The typos are pretty minor, anyway.
What started as a reminder to myself how to make watermarks turned into this, lol. Hope it helps some people out there.
I also hope you don't have to hit "Download" to view it fully.
[link] A really good lineart tutorial and [link] cell and soft shading tutorial both done by
[link] A tutorial that does lineart, colouring, and making backgrounds for your pictures by
[link] Soft shading and [link] cell shading tutorials, both done by
[link] And a tutorial specializing in colouring eyes in GIMP by
All of these tutorials I used when I was first using GIMP, and they're all really good.
GIMP can be downloaded here: [link]
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You're most welcome!
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KYAAA Thank you so much!!!
it worked perfectly here ~> pandaswagg2002.deviantart.com/…
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Hello, I was wondering if you could help me with a problem. I’m trying to create a signature/watermark “brush” using Gimp. The problem I’m having is the process to save them and then use it as a brush. I’m confused by “Save,Save as, and export. I also would like to know ( in your opinion )what the initial numbers to start with when creating a new signature/watermark. Your help is greatly appreciated, Harry
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Hi, so, I'm not quite sure what it is exactly you're asking, but have you gone down past the image watermark part? There's a "Finishing Off" section that uses the rabbit watermark as an example, but the process is the same for the signature.
(I didn't really do a good job dividing everything up into parts, so maybe you missed it?)
As for Save, Save As, Export... To be completely honest with you, all I really know is that "Save As" is what you'll really need, so that you can follow the steps outlined.
I'm not really sure about how big of a canvas you'll need. It really all depends on how big you plan on making it. Perhaps try it on a 100x100 canvas, just to see what it looks like.
This most likely didn't answer any of your concerns, and I'm sorry about that. If you could send me a note later, we can try to figure something out. If push comes to shove, we'll try to think of something else to figure out what the problem is.
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Firstly thank you so much for your reply. By which method do you wish me to "drop you a note"? I do have some questions, Thanks H.
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By clicking on my username, you'll see a tab in the top-right corner that says, "Send a Note." You can use this to ask any questions you'd like so that we don't have to keep seeing what the parent message was in the comments.
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You're very welcome! But I'm sorry you had to wait a month for a reply. -___-; My bad.
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Not a problem,I have time xD
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I'm glad to hear that! ^^
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You're very welcome.
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Thank you! And thanks for the fave!
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you're very welcome! Thank you for posting!
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Is this for Gimp 2.7? Or just Gimp all-together?
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It should be usable with any GIMP, as long as they kept the basics the same. I used this with GIMP 2.0 or something.
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Okay. It works fine. I used it.
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Ack... okay so i am apearintly doing something wrong because i am all good until i try to save it. what :c drive are you talking about? can't i just hit save as, then click the "select file type" and chose the one that says "gimp brush"? it saves the image as gbr. shouldn't that work?
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Thanks 
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Thank you for making the tutorial. I appreciate the work that you have done as well.
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Yea, I got the background somewhere here on deviantArt.
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Ha ha, you're very welcome. n.n
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Or you make the image or whatever.. and then you just change the layer type to "overlay" or "grain merge" (it looks really good but it doesn't work that well with super dark (like black) or white colors. xD;
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... Or are you talking about making the watermark? Lol, sorry, I thought you were talking about me correcting my mistakes. XD; And I still wouldn't know how to use what you just described. XD;;
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Lol, yeah I was talking about the watermark. XD If you click on Layers, there is a drop down menu (with Mode: on the left on top of Opacity) That is how you change the Layer type/mode. XD
I am sorry I confused you XD;
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Lol, it's okay... I've had this program for who knows how long and I still don't know a heck of a lot about it.
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I had the program going onto.. 2 years? XD; And I am still learning more as I go D8
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Lol, well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's learning after a while. XD
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Its a program of mysteries! 
I love learning new things with the program XD
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Lol, I wouldn't know how to use what you just described.
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