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Published: 2009-05-19 10:25:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 2750; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 31
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I had some fun images around it before my computer crashed and initiated restart... TT_TTBut I was lucky to save the main point of it.
I hope this helps all you GIMP users out there ^^
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It's very hard to do my picture. I've done that stroke thing and when I use the paint bucket, it covers the whole picture instead of doing just the thing I want it to cover.
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Did you set the threshold under the bucket option?
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Threshold? That's what I needed to do?
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Sometimes when it's too high, it'll cover the whole picture. Sometimes it might override all dark colors, and sometimes it can even give everything a tint of whatever color you used...
This threshold option is under the fill bucket menu in the tool thing, and there is a slider to tweak it. I like using no more than 70% most of the time. Fool around a bit and get a feel for it. Once you get the hang of the program, it's like second nature. I've been using it since I was 14, so that's 5 years on it, but my brother was doing some pretty cool animations with it when we first got it. Don't be afraid to experiment with tools and ideas...
Script-Fu is a neat feature, since it's like a premade recipe for effects, and all you need to do is input the data you want (easier than it sounds).
Some tricks that should help you:
Basic hotkeys, like ctrl+z to step back, ctrl+y to put it back, ctrl+x to purge your selection... universal commands really...
Color Select: Near the wand, and much like it, but cooler. Selects all the same colors, and if the threshold is up higher, all the same but different shade and tints. Handy for recoloring, which I do for altering stock images to make my signatures for forums and all.
Colorize: Forget which menu it's under, but it takes the selection and tints the color to what shade and brightness you chose. Fun for recoloring, which I use for making Shadow stock art look like Mephiles from the game: [link]
See?
Now... for you... I think that you maybe need to set the threshold down a bit and see where that leads you...
Come back if it didn't work... or if it did...
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It worked. And some bits are still showing white. Do I use the wand for that?
I also save it, but I try to open it again. It won't work. Do I have to do it all on one go, then save it as a picture?
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Depends. Is the image a scanned picture that's not outlined on the computer? It's harder to fill those. If it's outlined in GIMP instead of Paint, it's going to have some white dots. You can always zoom in and do the rest by hand, or just leave it and when it's all done, use "Scale Image" under one of the top menus. If the image is set to RGB, which is usually default, it's shrunk to a good quality, and most white dots are gone, and it looks smoother. Indexed just jacks it up. Pixelizes...
I work with big pictures so I can shrink to get rid of the white dots and smooth is out.
You can save it as any file, with GIF for animations, like avatars, or PNG (my favorite) to compress it to crisp clear one layer. If you want to work on separate layers later, I advise you save as a PSD, so that the layers are kept intact, and can be fixed as if you just put it there.
Gif won't save many effects clearly, so save it as a PSD, then either a PNG (Which also supports transparencies) for a clear image, GIF for an animated one, like my avatar and little animations I made, and JPEG I advise that you use ONLY if you want it to be fuzzy, like the screenshots, or whatever... since JPEGs saves compressed, and only are clear if it's an imported from a camera or scanned picture. Never save it as a JPEG unless you have a PNG or PSD, otherwise you end up with this: [link]
That's an old picture I did in Paint about 4 years ago, and as you can see, I saved it as a JPEG, and it ended up fuzzy in some places. Not good.
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^^ Um... what if it was a picture that was taken on a camera? And I try to get rid of the pen marks that can't be coloured.
Is there a way to copy the image onto a new piece? (I hope I don't confuse you)
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What I usually do is outline it in Paint with a bright color, save as a PNG, then put into GIMP, select the lineart, hit ctrl+i to invert the selection to be everything but what I selected, then deleted, deselected, paint bucketed it to black then proceeded there.
Here's a before, inbetween, and after using that process:
Before: [link]
Inbetween: [link]
After: [link]
[link] This is an old and outdated to me alternative way to lineart camera pics, since it's very much filled with holes, but it was all I had at the time.
For copying, I'll need you to explain what you want, so I can see if I know how
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Um... am I annoying you with all these questions?
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No. It's good to ask questions. I had to ask at least this many when I was first learning how to use it ^^
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And I'm the same age as you were when you first did GIMP ^^
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Yes!
Now stop RPing with Sir Evoker and I! We're getting bored!
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Stop? ^^
Well, I hardly have time. I mean today, I had to go with my family to the store to take advantage of a 99 cent deal for Monster energy drinks, then we had to pick up so great food (Mexican this time. My cousin (The boy)and I love the spicy stuff, and we love salsa. Can't get enough of it. We know a market that makes great Mexican food. The tortillas are made right there! ^^ ). Then there was our 5- what ever time Mom gets tired TV time with the three of us, where we watch CSI or something of that nature... or a fun movie. Jak also gets comfortable falling asleep on me, so I also have to keep him happy. We had to buy more dog food for our dogs today, and we had to make sure the food was small enough for Jak to chew... never larger than a cocoa puff, and no harder than one. He's old after all. ^^
Then I'm going to... well... I'm gona try to mod my iPod to do what I want it to. My cousin tested a program on his and gave me instructions on how to.
And... well... I suck at most RP things. I get lost in RPGS for days, even. One time, in Morrowind, I used a Scroll of Icarian Flight to jump insanely high to just kill myself to start over at the last save... and I fell at an angle and landed in a swamp off the map where a cult of vampires were. I beat them off with a stick and stole the Wizards' Staff, thinking it was a good blunt weapon for beating off savage giant rats that hunt me in packs... and the thing turns out to grant levitation as long as it's equipped. Great for escaping glitch spots, going over mountains, "jumping" the giant fortress wall to the hellhole of the game, escaping the imperial guards that wanted me dead for robbing the vault of a longsword because my brother told me it was alright... and beating back that Bull Netch (Giant Freaking Land Jelly Fish) that hunted me down for days because my BOOM spell (A specialty spell my brother and I created that clears a 50ft radius... much like Chaos Blast, but it has to be launched... if it hits me... I die because I can't handle it.) went bad and grazed him...
You can tell I have bad luck in the games...
And Rae, well, she's the kind to find a bug more interesting than the conversation... and she starts picking things off of desks because she's very curious... so she might be on the run right now XD
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...start.... START! Goddammit. DX
Oh jeeze.
O.o What do you want that hunk a junk to do?
...
Sounds good for RPing!
Have you gotten S ranks on Mephiles' fights yet?
XD That's where we throw a character of mine in that is crazy.
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Question: How do you get GIMP to color all the way? Like, whenever I color something with flat colors(like in step three) It colors the majority part of it, but the ends are still whitish and I have to go over them again with the Paintbrush tool, which makes the ends looks uneven. Help?
Sorry if that was really confusing 
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Set the threshold, or what whatever it is in the paint bucket tool. Tell it to fill in similar colors. There's a slider bar for it under the paint bucket options.
Does that help?
^^
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Aha! It does. I just had the play with the slider thing under "Threshold". Thanks much!
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No problem. I figured that it'd be nice and fair if I made something that shows how I did something. That way people can try too.
^^
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You can't?
Have you tried practicing? I start with a character, then work one piece at a time until I get a satifying design. Head, body, feet, hands, tails, and what ever else.
Then again, I took a class on this
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oh goody! XD
Really, I suck at drawing.
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