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Nanidanides — Simple GIMP coloring
Published: 2007-01-26 03:20:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 26304; Favourites: 170; Downloads: 517
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THIS IS A BIG FILE!!!this is a simple tutorial for lazy GIMP coloring. i am not an expert (in fact, i started using GIMP weeks ago) and i just wanna show how i manage to color, in a quick, lazy way.
GIMP's strength, for me, is the smudge tool- major blending power; it's ability for detail (like hair strands, etc.) is limited vs. Photoshop though.
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people were asking for less clutter, so i cleaned up a bit.
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wow thank you so much for this on colouring I'v been trying to find a way to make all my art look more like paint tool sai version but all I keep doing is making it look so bland so I have to thank you sooooooo very very much
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Thanks a lot. Yesterday was my first time coloring with Gimp. I still struggled a bit, but this really helped.
Link to pic - [link]
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<3 thanks for this! it helped a lot with my method for coloring skin. <3
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I find it hard to believe you started recently.
I may just be stupid, but I found this *really* hard to understand. I couldn't get the layers to work or anything. Any suggestions?
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I just started using gimp (It's so different compared to oekaki!) so this will come in handy <33
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uhm, i'm haing a little trouble...cu i fail....how do you get the outline to be in the foreground? D: i can't find where it say's set layer as background and i am soooo confused. pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaseeee heeeelpppp meeeee!!! D: my brain hurts....
cool tut. btw~
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sorry i was gone for awhile, i was on vacation.
anyway, the set layer as background is not really a real setting, what i do is clean up my scanned image and then place it first on the layers window. I then lock it (lock icon on the layers pane), so it would stay put and not be altered before i add layers on top. the background should be your first layer that other layers will be on top of, or overlap.
I use a different process now to paint in GIMP (used to draw on top of the picture with layers for each section and edited as i went), but its a bit weird.
the new GIMP has a function like lasso+outline highlighter, and it traces the lineart of the original image and cuts it out so(i have to make sure the image is desaturated and dirty spots are cleaned beforehand) i can place just the black outlines on a new layer. Then i can legitimately have a background layer just for the background, and then do a lineart layer that is transparent to the bottom, background layer.
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i figured it out while you were gone. ^^ thanks anywaysss~
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no problem. I've actually refined my method a LOT from back when I posted this, but I haven't had time to make another tutorial yet.
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Well, this one's still really helpful. I was just wondering, though...how do you stay in the lines so well? That's my biggest problem with coloring.
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i don't stay in the lines at all. i use GIMP's version of the lasso tool to cut out the shape that i need to block in the color. and then i move the outline layer to the top and have it overlap every layer below.
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Oh, that's smart! I'm totally going to be doing that from now on! Thanks!
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This is a really intriguing tutorial -- I certainly wouldn't have thought of it -- but it would be really nice to see the finished image. Other than that, this is really awesome. I just might try using it sometime. ^^
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i have the finished image, but it is soo amateur to what you can really do with GIMP after you get used to using it. the techniques here are basic, if not a bit confusing and muddled. i plan to make a new one sometime.
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thank goodness i found someone with GIMP 
-Ahem- Anyways...I know that u just began with gimp and what-not...unless this is an old pic...but anyways (again) I have a wittle problem. >.> I try to color using gimp, but the only color that comes out is black, even though i chose a dif. color using the color wheel thingy. do u think u can help me?? pwease? -puppy dog pout-
nice tut, btw
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You color very well, but the tutorial was a bit messy.
Which is why I skimmed trough the reading and mainly looked at the pics to see what you had been doing. With a nicer, bigger font and the pics in paragraphs, not all huddled together, it would have been great
It was still helpful though, and will be even more helpful when my headache goes away and I will bother to read your text thoroughly.
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i want to clean it up , 'cause that was my first tutorial. XD sorry about the text and such.
i'll try to fix it soon.
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I shouldn't say anything really, I've never made a tutorial 
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uh, i'm not going to take your sig's proposition- 'cause i don't know ya. ;]
nah, i can take crit. and LAWL, you made the butt face.
X3 butt-face.
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Mabbeh I like butt faces 
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Your colouring may be called 'lazy'... that just means that mine is called 'lieing down and snoring gently'
Well done kid, I didn't honestly expect you to do one of these when I suggested it.
As for what I think of it: Informative and well written, but lacking clarity in the layout. You've got a lot of information, but tried to fit it all into the space too closely.
I can't fault anything you've done with the actual text, descriptions or images, they're absolutely clear. Personally I would have presented it differently, but that's my own preference.
A good job, Ben and I thank you for your effort, he because he wants GIMP now, and me because you've managed to give me ideas for my photoshop work ^^
Thanks a lot.
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no, it really is lazy. it's what the amazing artists dish out in their scraps with Painter or Corel and etc... come to think of it, though Photoshop is a lot more detailed and higher in resolutions/options/effects with brushes, GIMP has a nice ability to appear soft and also act as a vector (i haven't worked with it like that yet, but i want to) nicely. It's like Painter- at least to me.
i wanted to do one, so i could see what i did on a normal basis. (i kind of do the coloring in random order, with no steps and many alterations.)
the layout was messy and i realized that i wouldn't have space half-way through doing it- thus, i continued, but it's really just blocked together like legos of different sizes.
as for your friend, i'm glad to help. if you want more info on GIMP (the), check their site and download the program. it's shareware! (which is why i use it.)
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