Fun with light

cool, nice to see something original!

what on earth happened to gimer.net!!!!

thanks pienose :)

nice,
ill try it at home,
ive noticed uve been using a lot of stroke to path in your recent tutorials, it can generate some very nice effects :P, good job

the link to download the light bulb picture doesn't work and when you import it onto the background it's got a big white bit around it that i can't get rid of
:(

its back online now

I'm very happy to see a nice and well done tutorial like this. Good job Gimper!

appreciate the nice comment :)

Very nicely done, great inspiration.

The whole site is full of very useful tips and tricks.

I have been switching to GIMP for 2 days now from Paint Shop Pro.I refuse to use Photoshop because I think its too expensive, not that that would be a problem on today's internet, but if you want to make professional designs you shouldnt be caught using illegal software. You have proven GIMP to be a worthy alternative.

Thanks to your website and yours alone I have been able to get the hang of the gimp.

Thank you.

Hi! I stopped at step 2. I cant insert bulb in my New Layer. I have downloaded bulb from here http://www.sxc.hu/photo/839958. But it have size bigger than 1024*768 and overflow my image. In addition, i cant cut only bulb from this photo...and bulb goes to my picture with white background. Please, help me! :)....and sorry for my bad English.

i already posted the link to the cut out bulb but it seems you missed it. here it is http://gimp-tutorials.net/tutorials/turn_on/bulb.zip

I already downloaded this archive with .xcf file inside... but i want to know how i can cut out bulb from this image (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/839958) by myself...or this question is outside the scope of this tutorial?

look inside the video tutorial on how to cut things out of images

In part 6 when i poured the paint the area in the circle became pure white and i had in what ypu said..and i can't make the flare colorless.

make sure the layer mode is set to Overlay
for the flare follow the step "Color>Desatruate, and select lightness"

When I make a path on the somethingamajig string and attempt to stroke it, it looks like a different type of yellow. My opacity is 100, I'm using Circle Fuzzy (19) and it's scaled at 1.12, and I'm using fcff02.

make sure you have the layer ordering correct, if you wan't more help post a screenshot in the forum section for us to see.

Thanks Gimper. Great original GIMP tutorial. BTW, I've demo(ed) this tutorial on a http://angpilipinogimp.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/ang-pilipino-gimp-mad we recently had conducted.

your welcome, comments like these help keep me making these tutorials :)

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Uhmm. How do we change Blend mode to multiply Btw i get confused Easily with gimp XD im only 8 yrs old D: so how u change it from blend mode to multiply

Oh nevermind forget about my comment xD i finaly figured it out

Excellent!!!
Wow .. this is so amazing!!

Hi Gimper, I am learning GIMP, and these lovely tutorials are really helping me learn :-)
Please keep on posting such easy and very effective to learn tuts.

Thank you
Belo

Wow, I love this tutorial!
I had some difficult because I had to translate it in italian and I didn't know some technical words, but I understood them with the pictures.
Here my outcome, what do yuou think? --> http://i38.tinypic.com/vrsf0o.png

nice work SweetOblivion, perfect outcome.

Thankyou, I'm glad**

Wow! Thats awesome! Its great work. ;-)

Re: Step 2
How are we to insert the light bulb?

simply drag the photo into you're canvas.

Dear Gimper, I got stuck in step one. Using Blend (from Tools) and Gradient (from Dialogue), I could only get the image 'blended' but without the important 'radial' effect because I could not find 'Shape-radial', as shown in your tutorial, in either the Blend or the Gradiant dialogue box. I am using Gimp 2.4. Is it a different version from yours?

Hi, Did you check the image in step 1? notice the Shape dropdown option..

you can see it in this image http://gimp-tutorials.net/tutorials/turn_on/1.jpg

Thanks Gimper, I finally found it after more careful searching. Its different from your dropdown menu, but 'Shape-radial' is there. Guess thats a common problem with different versions of Gimp - menus are differently located and designed. I think now I can proceed with your wonderful tutorial - thanks a lot !

Glad you got it worked out.

I took the inspiration from this tutorial to create my wallpaper.

Please let me know what do you think about it :D

http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lightxv7.jpg

nice tut - well done ... but I can't find the .xcf file :(

This is what you call creative

Changing layer modes. I simply can't do it. I've got gimp 2.6.1, and i don't know how to change the layer mode. I've looked under the layers toolbar, images, tools..everything! Do i need a different version to do this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! =)

deepblue I've replied to your question in the other tutorial.. otherwise email me and i'll explain how to find it.

Very good and nice creation.

Very good and nice creation.

i think its one of the best tut ever! thx gimper!

Where it that overlay tool thing? I can't find it.

It's magic!

Nice, I´ll try it.
Thanks

why dont you add transparency to the bulb with "color to transparency" tool?

Good work! Your post/article is an excellent example of why I keep comming back to read your excellent quality content that is forever updated.

Thank you! - tekne turu

I've looked all over the very well done tutorial and have not found the xcf file. Could I get a copy of it?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Only members can see the .xcf files.