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Ellie's Treasures GIMP/Gimpshop Translated Tutorials - African Dream Tag http://www.ellies-treasures.com/x-clusive/african-dream-gimp/african-dream-gimp.html |
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Translated with permission from the creator, Lien at X-clusive Designz tutorial site. |
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For this tutorial you
will need: Gimpshop or GIMP GIMPShop Graphics program and Plugin Manager PSPI plugin manager can be downloaded here by itself if you already have the program. http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/GIMP-PSPI%20PS%20Plugin%20Manager.zip  Filters and materials needed Bordermania Flaming pear - Transline Supplies in zip file here http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/african-dream-material-gimp.zip includes a background, fonts and tubes in psd format Also the gradient canvas at correct size if you don't want to make the gradient Please leave the filenames and previews of the tubes intact. The creators have worked hard to make them.  My screenshots may look different from yours as I use GIMPShop which is made to look like Photoshop. If you have a different version of GIMP I believe the interface will look different. GIMPShop and the plugin manager can be downloaded above My filter windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my filters. A great program! It's Shareware and you can get it here. http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/ |
| Install the filters and install the fonts. Fonts will not show up in Gimp or Gimpshop unless installed, just opening them will not make them show up. Open up your background image and your tubes. Minimize all, they are not needed yet. If you are using my ready made gradient canvas, duplicate it twice, close the original and minimize one duplicate till needed. |
| 1. Open a new transparent canvas 500X350 pixels Make your foreground color # ffee9c and your background color #a06b41 |
| 2. Click on your gradient tool, pick Foreground-Background, in the right hand palette pick foreground-background (RGB). Make sure your rulers are on. Set gradient tool at opacity 100, mode normal, reverse not checked, offset of 30, shape linear, repeat triangular wave, dithering checked. Set your cursor in the canvas at Horizontal of 200, vertical of 150 (about the middle of the canvas) Hold the left button down and drag down to the left bottom and end up at 80 horizontal, 290 vertical then let go of the button. The gradient will fill in. Duplicate this canvas and minimize the duplicate till needed. If you are having a problem with this, use the gradient canvas I provided in the supplies folder. If you made the gradient yourself, skip the next step for Gaussian blur as it's not as sharp as the one in the gradient canvas I provided. |
| 3. If you used the gradient canvas I supplied, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur>H and V of 5 Click on the icon at the bottom left of layer palette to make a new layer. |
| 4. Maximize your background image. Control-C to copy and over to your working canvas, control-V to paste. It will paste into the center. using your move tool, move it to the top left of the canvas, overlapping the edges just a bit to make sure it's completely covered. Now click on your scale tool (hover over the tools to see what they are, scale tool is in the toolbar, 3rd row down, 2nd from the left) and using the box at the right bottom corner, pull down to the bottom right until the whole picture overlaps the edges a bit on all sides. When you click on the box, a window will pop up, probably in the way. Just move it out of the way by dragging with the title bar of the window, and do the rescaling, then click on the Scale button in that window that popped up. In the layer palette you will now see your added picture is a floating selection. Right click and anchor layer. It won't look great as it's pulled larger than it's resolution will allow but it looks ok in the end. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 60 |
| 5. Add a new layer. Activate the lion tube. Copy. Go to your working canvas. Paste Right click on that layer in the layer palette and anchor layer. In the layer palette, place it as shown in the screenshot, and then reduce opacity to 70 |
| 6. Add a new layer. Activate the lion cubs tube (aren't they cute??:-)). Copy Back to your working canvas, Paste. Move into position. Right click on that layer in the layer palette and anchor layer. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75 |
| 7. Add a new layer. Activate the woman tube. Copy Over to your working canvas, Paste as new layer Right click on that layer in the layer palette and anchor layer. In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 75 |
| 8. Right click in the layer palette and flatten image. Right click in the layer palette and duplicate layer. |
| 9. Filter>Flaming Pear>Transline In the layer palette, reduce opacity to 70 |
| 10. Click on your eraser and use the following settings in the toolbar circle (19), opacity 50, the rest not checked Now carefully remove the blinds effect from the lion's head, the cubs heads, the woman's head Layers>Flatten layers |
| 11. Filter>Lighting Effects>Supernova with the following settings. Color is your foreground color. x and y at 0; radius 20, spokes 604, random hue 0 |
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Select all Effects>Bordermania>Frame #2 with the following settings 3-3-110-130 bevel and notch corner NOT checked |
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12. Open your duplicate gradient canvas back to full size and go to Image>Image Size and change the dimensions to 524X374. Go to your tag canvas, control-c to copy, back to your gradient canvas, control-v to paste. It should paste right in the center. Right click in layer palette and anchor layer. Select all |
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13. Effects>Bordermania>Frame #2 with the same settings as
before. 3-3-110-130 bevel and notch corner NOT checked |
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14. Activate your text tool and set as follows: Sloop Script Three-60-pixels- Use the brown background color. Type "African" in the text editor box that pops up. Filter>Shadows>Drop Shadow, with the following settings: 1-1-0-black-opacity at 100 Right click in the text layer>discard text information, then click on eye to turn background off, right click again and merge visible (the drop shadow and text are on different layers so you need to merge them). Click on eye to turn background back on. Click on your move tool and place the text as shown. Repeat with the font "Where is the rest" and type "Dream", (this font is only caps so it doesn't matter whether you type upper case or lower case) then add drop shadow as before and finally move that into place as well. Flatten image. |
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15. You may need to sharpen, do that before you add
the watermark. Go to Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask with the settings 1-64-4 Your tag is done. Watermark and save |
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If
you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html |
| These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional. Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site, but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group. ©2003-2007 Ellie's Treasures |
