Creative Composition

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Hello and welcome to my Gimp tutorial. My name is Jacob Philpott and I am a graphic designer Today we are going to learn how to make a photo-manipulation using an eye stock, I hope you enjoy my tutorial!.

1. Open up the eye stock image provided here. Credit of the stock belongs to soraneko. Resize and sharpen the image to an appropriate size. Now use the clone tool and get rid of the glare in the pupil.

2. Duplicate the layer and erase every part of the image except for the eye. You can do this using the plain eraser tool or use different tools if you prefer. Now change the top layer's mode to "Dodge". If when you erase the top layer you get a color, then go to Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel.

3. Open up an image of space with stars and copy and paste the image into our document. Erase all but the pupil area of the eye. Keep the layer mode on Normal.

4. Create a new layer and fill it with color #68b4d4. Now go back to the space layer and go to Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. This should select the current layer. Now go to Select>Grow and grow the selection by 3 pixels (may vary depending on how large or small the image is).

5. While on the blue layer, go to Select>Inverse and the Edit>Cut. Now change the layer mode to "Hue".

6. Create a new layer. Go to your brush tool and select a medium sized hard brush. Click on Brush Dynamics and make the settings match this:

7. Now click on the Paths Tool. If you don't know the basics of the Paths Tool, watch this brief video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGeOGyxcEw . Now create a path, STARTING FROM OFF THE CANVAS towards the dark spot of the eye. Go to Stroke Path and make sure Paintbrush is selected and "Emulate Brush Dynamics" is checked. Make sure the foreground color is still blue.

8. Repeat this a few times on separate layers. Use the Dodge/Burn Tool to create some difference in the paths.

9. Open up a stock image with clouds and copy and paste it into our document. Move the clouds to where you want and erase the rest with a large soft eraser. Finally, change the layer mode to "Value".

10. Create a new layer and fill it with the same blue. Lower the opacity to 50% and change the layer mode to "Hue".

11. Finally, create a new layer and with black as your foreground color, use the paintbrush and a big soft brush to color over the border of the image. Lower the opacity to your liking.

For more photo-manipulation tutorials, visit http://ajitgraphics.blogspot.com

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Gimper's picture

Thanks for the tutorial Ajit

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Thanks for the tutorial Ajit :)

n2dabloo's picture

Awesome post, I learned a

Awesome post, I learned a lot. I love this open source software, wow...

Amuro Ray VV's picture

Great work Ajit.

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Great work
Ajit.

Visitor's picture

nice tut! i made a blog for

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nice tut!

i made a blog for gimp tuts after reading these tutorials at your site. gimpeez.blogspot.com (don't have a better name). i always like comments and suggestions from pros so plz visit my blog and give your suggestions about the blog.

Liz's picture

Very nice I'm definitely

Very nice I'm definitely going to try it.

RoopdeeRoo's picture

Pretty sick ;O I had a fun

Pretty sick ;O
I had a fun time trying to create something as cool. I made something kind of similar, but didn't come out as cool ::

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/20/l_041b261cc67547279bb51cf...

Barbiene's picture

ROOPDEEROO?! I didn't know

ROOPDEEROO?!

I didn't know you had a flippin' account here? -highfives- :D

Visitor's picture

really nice tutorial, but my

really nice tutorial, but my version of gimp didn't have brush dynamics, it only had pressure sensitivity, what should i do?

ajit's picture

I suggest checking out

I suggest checking out http://gimp.org and seeing where the latest download is. After downloading the latest version you should have brush dynamics :)

3ds max, photoshop, maya tutorials's picture

Hello, Thanks for this nice

Hello,

Thanks for this nice tutorial. I want more gimp tutorials.

Best,
stefan

Rachel's picture

I am a newbie at this

I am a newbie at this :)):))
I am stuck at Number 2
Ive erased everything but the eye but i pressed dodge and i triied to erase it but it doesnt
really do eveyrthiing .. it just erases and iv still got the other picture not changed.
help ! :))

samanthaing's picture

Thanks. This is helpful.

Thanks. This is helpful.

Bleh! 's picture

ahhh!! I don't get any of it!

ahhh!! I don't get any of it! :D
well actually i get stuck at step four! :D could you help me!?
that would be great thanks

munchkinbaby's picture

i get it n all but i cant

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i get it n all but i cant find where to change my layer mode...i cant find neither hue nor value or watever can sumone help me plz

Lila's picture

It looks so great! Can anyone

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It looks so great!
Can anyone translate it into german ?

Lila's picture

It loooks sooooo

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It loooks sooooo greeeaaat!!
Can anyone translate it into german ?

Caitlyn's picture

im stuck at step two...can

im stuck at step two...can someone tell me how to switch back to the top layer and change its mode to dodge? :]

Don't Get It At All's picture

I Have No Clue What

I Have No Clue What Number
One Means At All!
I Tried But It Didn't Make Any Since To
Me At All D=

Can You Tried And Tell
Me One More Time?
Because I Been Reading This
Page For 2 Hours And Still
Have No Clue
What It Means D=

Don't Get It At All's picture

I Have No Clue What

I Have No Clue What Number
One Means At All!
I Tried But It Didn't Make Any Since To
Me At All D=

Can You Tried And Tell
Me One More Time?
Because I Been Reading This
Page For 2 Hours And Still
Have No Clue
What It Means D=

ajit's picture

press Ctrl-L to show your

press Ctrl-L to show your layers dialog, then you should see "normal" on the layer, drop down that menu and then you will see all of the other layer modes :)

Also guys to get a basic understanding of where the layers dialog is, etc. try using this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQYqWeAn8SQ

Visitor's picture

'the eye' (step 3) isn't

'the eye' (step 3) isn't helpful, did you mean the iris the pupal or more? with or without the eyelid?

ajit's picture

Hmm I said, "Erase all but

Hmm I said, "Erase all but the pupil area of the eye" which seems to answer your question...?

Visitor's picture

Okay, so whenever i duplicate

Okay, so whenever i duplicate the layer i try to erase it, but it never erases!! WHY?

Visitor's picture

Uhm, I accidentally pressed

Uhm, I accidentally pressed something on mine, (Not the picture, the side where you change the size of the brush) and the size changer thing disappeared. Can someone help me get it back? It says this where the size changer was: You can drop dockable dialogues here. Please, can someone help???

Mattman's picture

To the guy up ^^^^^^

To the guy up ^^^^^^ (Visitor)

That has happened to me too... I never figured out how to get the dialouge back to where it's supposed to be.. but this works for me: Double the paint brush icon or whatever you want and another window will appear with the options and other crap for yah.

If this isnt clear enough for yah then just say.

~Mattman

Visitor's picture

Uhm.. No, not making much

Uhm.. No, not making much sense. :D But, the problem is, that I don't know how to 'double' the brush. Can you tell me how to do that please?

Keith G's picture

Not detailed enough for users

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Not detailed enough for users needing a tutorial

MERE WHAKAPORANGI!!!'s picture

This was Soo GUD

This was Soo GUD HAHAHAHZ!!!!

Nithya Cethin's picture

This is really great i love

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This is really great i love it. My only question is, how do you lower the opacity? Can someone please help? Im lost D:

blaze1341's picture

http://i78.photobucket.com/al

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http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/AznHostage/PathGraffitiTutorial2in...
I like the result of this tutorial. I didn't know how to use Path before. xD

Peridot_Horntail's picture

Good, but I'm stuck at the

Good, but I'm stuck at the path-drawing step. For the life of me, I can't get it to stroke no matter what I do.

Help?

sadia's picture

There is a trick i found,

There is a trick i found, okay so after your done with the last step, and you decide you don't want your eye color as blue, than you can make a new layer, and color your eye ball and the 3 (or how ever many you used) thingy above your eyes (it's in step 8) and put your layer mode to hue.

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