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MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 08:04.
Preview:
This GIMP tutorial will teach you how to create an effect similar to the one used at MSNBC.com.
The orignal tutorial can be found here. all credits go to Fabio from psdtuts.com, I'm just demonstrating how the effect can be done in GIMP.
Step 1
Depending on what your going to use the effect for pick a suitable canvas size..i'm going to create a 600x450 to fit the width of the site and fill the background to Black.
Step 2
Grab the "Blend tool" and set your foreground color to 28188f and background color to black and in the "Tools options" dialog under Gradient select FG to BG (RGB) and shape to Radial.
Step 3
Now apply the the gradient from centre to lower bottom corner.
This is how it should look
Step 4
This step isn't 100% as in the PS tutorial but close enough :).
Now create a new layer fill it with black then go to Filters>Renders>Clouds>Difference clouds. in the dialog set the following values:
-Random: 3
-Tick Turbulent option
-Detail: 15
-X size: 16
-Y size: 0.1
Step 5
Now will sharpen the image to give it better detail to the lines. go to Filters>Enhance>Sharpen and set to 72
Step 6
Create a new layer.Now i used the pre-made Gradient that comes with GIMP 2.4 named which isn't exactly the same as the one Fabio used but it will do.
Now Grab the "Blend Tool" and in the "Tools options" dialog select "Full saturation spectrum CW" as your Gradient and set the shape to Linear and then apply it horizontally.
Step 7
Next change the the Mode to Overlay and then duplicate the layer.
you should have something like this
Step 8
Now will merge all the layers except the background so unclick the "Eye" icon infront of the "Background layer" then right click>Merge Visible layers.
Step 9
Now re click the eye icon. Grab the "Free Select tool" and draw a wavy selection then go to Select>Feather and set it to 70.
Step 9
Now for the final step. right click on the Rainbow layer with your selection still active and click on "Add Layer mask" and select the Selection option.
Final Result
its a simple effect that can be used in a range of designs with little tweaks here and there.
As always the XCF GIMP source file can be downloaded from the link below under Attachments.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Shashwat (not verified) on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 09:06.Thanks a ton Gimper , You taught a lot of things from this Tutorial .. Thanks again for gr8 and detailed Tutorial :D
Regards Shash
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Tim MacQueen (not verified) on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 19:26.hey gimper, your doing a good job on converting all the psd tuts! keep it up!!
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 19:46.thanks guys, more tutorials on the way :)
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by AreoX (not verified) on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 12:17.Wow, this is cool. First time I've ever done something using Masks.
This would make an awesome Gimp splash screen.
killer effect, ima try the
Submitted by lolzlolz on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 15:21.killer effect,
ima try the tut later today even though im on spring break,
i gotta work on some stuff first, then ill do it, (ill make into splash and post on forums)
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 20:09.great lolz. try not to stick wilber in there unless he looks really good :D
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by lolzlolz on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 18:32.dont worry i didnt :P
http://gimper.net/index.php?topic=791.0
i posted at the bottom
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Dorin (not verified) on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 21:20.every where i look for a nice tut i see "Submitted by Gimper..."
and the part that i love is that you got realy good color combinations , 10x for inspiration and for being such a good "teacher"
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Superchild (not verified) on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 07:07.Wckd got that saved as my background very detailed and great as i've just started using gimp. Thanks agian!
Ripper effect Gimper! I like
Submitted by kristarella on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 06:15.Ripper effect Gimper!
I like it below you mask out the shape, the texture is cool!
~ http://www.kristarella.com ~
Thanks Literally just
Submitted by Piggaletto (not verified) on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 15:02.Thanks
Literally just downloaded GIMP and this is the first thing i tried out. Pleased with the result :-D
Good tutorial *thumbs up*
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Submitted by rush2611 (not verified) on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 20:49.Great work! Easy to understand, also for beginners.
Thank you (again) very much!!
Nice tutorial! Can I
Submitted by Leendert (not verified) on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 10:46.Nice tutorial!
Can I translate it for dutchgimpers.nl?
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 11:27.you sure can :)
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Submitted by Leendert (not verified) on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 15:18.Thanks! I've used the "Coloured stripes effect" for this tutorial: http://dutchgimpers.nl/readarticle.php?article_id=101
I've insert a link to your tutorial in it.
love it :) all your
Submitted by amy (not verified) on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 11:54.love it
:)
all your tutorials are mega cool
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Submitted by Mosselman (not verified) on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 13:03.Very nice!
I LOVE IT! I went a slighty
Submitted by Codenomics (not verified) on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 04:46.I LOVE IT!
I went a slighty different path though http://codenomics.deviantart.com/art/Patriomics-85054139
TY for the great tut.
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Submitted by Gimper on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 06:24.looking good Codenomics
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Submitted by tim (not verified) on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 21:58.All these tutorials are wonderful and I thank you very much for sharing them with all of us. I'm mostly concerned with using them as guides to creating backgrounds for my web pages. I should add here that I am a newbie to all of this including web design. My problem is I can't seem to get them to show up on the net once I've published the site. I can place them on the local version of my site but once the site is published the background is missing. I think it might be in the way I save them. I seem to be able to make logos and images and save and publish them to the net but not the images I chose as backgrounds. What am I doing wrong? tim.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 00:14.hi tim, could you share with us the link to your site? it might be you have the URL to your image wrong that's why it not showing up.
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Submitted by tim (not verified) on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 03:58.Of course it's http://www.optionswebhosting.com
thanks alot for the quick response. The sites not finished yet. Also I just tried doing a reflection for the header following your tutorial on building websites with gimp and it turned out beautifully but again it doesn't show up on the net so I resorted back to the old header for the time being. tim.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 04:04.as i thought, your linking the image source to your pc, look
background-image: url(../../My%20Pictures/gimp/gradient10.jpg);
it should be hosted in your hosting account for example
http://www.optionswebhosting.com/foldername/gimp/gradient10.jpg
hope that helps
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by beginner_alyanna on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:52.Uh. can you help me on how to save works from Gimp ?. Just like this , i finished this work , and i wanna save it , but after saving it , and i wanna preview it , Only Gimp can preview it . I can't even upload it on net . So yea.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Gimper on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 13:33.save it as .jpg or .png extension.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by universalmaster (not verified) on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 11:36.This tutorial is very nice!!! Very good work!!!
LOOK AT THIS!!!: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6867/aurorayv5.png
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Ashley (not verified) on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 00:04.Great tutorial! Very easy to follow as well.
http://therepublicantangerines.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/msnbc-tutoria...
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Submitted by kaleesh (not verified) on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 02:12.This rocks!!! i'm going to install gimp on my xp pc l8er :) and do the tuts! i love it and thank you so much :D!
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Steve (not verified) on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 15:16.This is most likey your easiest and most fun tutorial ever! Keep up the good work Gimper.
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by Steve (not verified) on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 15:27.This is most likey your easiest and most fun tutorial ever! Keep up the good work Gimper.
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Submitted by MyNameDidntFit on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 08:23.Great work :)
Re: MSNBC Style Effect
Submitted by jamespinto on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 16:20.brilliant effect..... and really simple...
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