Cool Circle Light Effect in Gimp

Awesome ! I Like It !

Great job

Very nice tutorial ! Thx

Nice tut :D
Alway fun to do your tut starlight :D

thank gimper too for post it on the main site :D

Thanks very much, I really like it

Thanks for the comment..:)

cheers!

Thanks, nice and easy tutorial ^_^

Nice one,

Starlights experiment come out nice :)
Learned some things again .

Greetings

that's really good man!
thanks!

Great tutorial, i saw your site and i was wondering if you could post your "cool typography design poster" tutorial here sometime, cause the images wouldn't come up on your site (my computer is messed up on some sites)

awsome tutorial!

@visitor

hmm..idk yet..but i'll try to discuss this with gimper about this...btw,thanks for visiting my site..

@sw, stanley,xand,taffy1998

thanks..really appreciate your comment..:D

get photoshop cs4, you poor people

Not everybody can afford Photoshop, and not everybody wants to steal it. And maybe people don't want to be stuck on the treadmill of forking over hundreds of dollars in an never ending upgrade path. I like the Gimp, it may have a steep learning curve, but so does Photoshop. And it doesn't hog memory the way PS does.

@visitor

hater are not welcome here..

I do have photoshop and making some tutorial for that as well like i did for Gimp...As a photoshop user i think Gimp is pretty interesting..that why i use Gimp as alternative software and now i'm learning more Gimp..

It wasn't easy, but I got it done. Learned some things. Still have some questions. Would have liked a little more detail on how to use the layers. Still, it was a nice tutorial.

nice!

really useful, gives more.

That is one sick looking effect.

easy to follow this tut..great!!

How do you "apply" the firse gradient? It'll only let me apply it if i do a line the the circle, but that just makes the gradient wrong. How do you apply it without having to do the line thing?

first*

to the person who suggested we all get PS4... I have it, but I like using GIMP at work (portable APP) my best guess is that you are not smart enough to use it... sorry for you!!!

wow... thanks a bunch for the knowledge sharing!
been looking for such tutorial.
thanks again!

Nice tutorial

wow, well done on this tutorial, i am pretty new to gimp and found your tut very user friendly!!! 5 stars from me!

Great Work!..... Thank you for sharing with us!

Why does my light look so much like a circle. yours looks less definined. i dont understand

Apply gaussian blur and dont forget change the light effect layer mode to soft light.

Thanks for the tutorial! This has been a good lesson in how to use these cool overlay looking effects, and with this tutorial I made a desktop background for my sister. Thanks!

how do you apply the first gradient to the ellipse?

As a Gimp beginner I also didn't know how to apply the first gradient to the ellipse....it didn't look right at all..I am using version 2.4.7.

Very good tutorial, it is easy to understand. Thanx

I could not do it
the 4th point my cirle's middle part wasn't like yours what to do justb show the blend line which ya gave

how da ya apply the 1st gradiant in the ellipse

this is screenshot how you apply the first gradient..

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l266/hafidzprod/step.jpg

what do you mean "apply" the gradient? how do i get it to look like yours? what way do i use the line thingy with the two pluses on the end with the blend tool?

oh lol thanks

Hi! I like your tutorial so much :) Easy and pretty good looking:) Before som time I was just dreaming about doing smth like that:)
But I have one little trouble: My blur is not working like your`s. I still don`t understant some things in Gimp like settings, where can I find som tools ect. But this isn`t matter:) I will find it all up some day:)
So.. My blur is like... white colour in centre and softly dissapearing but still some degree of white can be seen in edge of circle, it is not dissapearing like yours. Maybe I`m wrong in using white color circle, I just done it with using Bucked Fill Tool. Is it matter or howelse can I do the white circle?
Thanks very very much

Oh my dummy head! It was just unselecting the circle :)))
Thats gret looks great:)
You`ve make me happy
big thx

Hey, thanks for the great tutorial. Keep up the good work!
I will definitely go through some of your other tutorials!

Doest work.

Same here as with user Igor Kraut.

I create layer "light", draw eclipse select, bucket fill with white solid, set layer mode "soft light", go to filter->blur->gaussian blur, enter horiz 60, vertical changes automatically
but still the supposed "light" is like a circle.

Maybe because the size of eclipse differs from user to user that everyone can't use number "60". Would appreciate if you explained.

Also, some misunderstanding with the step where you need to duplicate layer "circle6". Where do you move the layer "circle8" ?
Thanks

"Maybe because the size of eclipse differs from user to user that everyone can't use number "60". Would appreciate if you explained..."

if u try this tutorial,the value 60 for the gaussian blur is perfect for this 800 x 600 canvas size. if u try this tutorial in different canvas, u can try with another value..

"Also, some misunderstanding with the step where you need to duplicate layer "circle6". Where do you move the layer "circle8" ?......"

duplicate layer circle 6 two times. so u will have layer circle 7 and layer circle 8
move both of the layer circle 7 and 8 move it to the right. (layer 7 and 8 are in the same position)

p/s:thanks for the comment. i'm apologize if somebody get confused in this tutorial.

Good tutorial for a beginner like me. Only place I screwed up was at the end making the light layer, and only because I missed the part where you say to set the layer mode to soft light.

Great!!

wow~!!!!very awesome tutorial.!!!!!!

Great tutorial.
Thanks for share it

After duplicating the circle twice, I tried to move the third one, but the only thing that moved was the black background. Help?

Great tutorial! Thanks a lot!!!

Awesome !
when I was a beginer I found It hard but not now I have my result :)

Uh-oh. Whenever I try to move the circle 3, it switches to the backround and moves the backround! Help!

Hey, this tutorial is awesome.

I have to ask one question tho.
How do i set the layer mode to Overlay?

When I try to apply the layer after circle 8 that is named 'gradient,' and that turns the circles blue, it only turns whatever is in my middle circle, bounded by the moving white lines, blue and leaves all the tips of the other circles outside it gray. What am I doing wrong? As far as I know I'm fallowing every step exactly. Any help from those who have completed it?

How do you move the circles(step 6)? I try to but it moves the black part...

Okay for everyone who don't know how to move the third circle, make sure that on your move tool click the little button that says move the active layer. Hope it helps :D

I've been searching for this effect, then I stopped and came here to see if there was any new tutorials, and there wasn't, but I fournd this. Just what i was looking 4

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Nice tutorial, love the red version.

Loved it!

I followed what you did but whenever i do the gaussian blur it appears as a circle of light rather than the nice glow that you got...

that was the best thing i ever done