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4/23/2008 22:09:42   
Mo
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Well, you may know these, you may not.

1.Colored vine or sparks brush:

Scroll down in your brush selection with all the options and click on color from gradient. Vines brush is very good for vector-like tags.
If you want one color, change your FG and BG color to the same thing and change the gradient to "FG to BG"~Sneevil

2.Same sized sparks brush:Take any circle tool and press "Apply jitter," then change the rate to 3.00 and start brushing

3.Recoloring
Thanks to Master Ridley on GIMPtalk for this one...even though I've not personally know him.
Make a new transparent layer, color around the render/object you wish to recolor. Don't try to be too careful because in the end, it doesn't work with black or white. When you are done coloring, set the layer to hue or color. Viola, you just got a masterful recoloring.

4.Wen Su's Special Effect
IF your Use ballpack (park?) effect and use the brush blob and set it at a different radius than set the layer to either dodge or screen or soft light or even lighten only you can get a nice effect~Wen Su


5.Vector Render
To get a great vector like render you can get any normal render, then use the color from gradient option from before. Copy the render you want, go to your brushes and you'll see that the render is now saved as
clipboard. Select clipboard and start brushing.

6.Smudging tips
If you wish to have a chaotic effect, use the vine brush at a 2.0 spacing and start smudging. If you wish to have blended smudging, use a circle brush at any size at a rate of 2.0 and start smudging wherever you want.

7.Vectored Background
Make your render layer or any other layer that is not needed not visible by clicking the eye near the layer in the layers dialog. You can access this by Ctrl+L. Then go to Edit<Copy Visible. Then, make a new transparent layer, after that paste in the background. Displace the new layer and then Map<Displace. Displace it to the settings you like. Then set it to overlay or screen and lower the opacity. Erase any parts you do not like.

8.Glowing
Make a new layer called "Glow" then use a circle brush and brush around the side of the render and then Gaussian Blur that layer at 20 for both. ~SonicBeam

9.Bucket Fill Shortcut
Did you know you can fill selection with a color without changing into the Bucket Fill tool? Simply drag the color from your palette into the layer to fill it!

This was one of the advices I found in gimptalk.com. I forgot the name though.. Anyway, credits to him!~Bling Bla

10.Changing the color scheme

If a tag has crazy colors that don't match and you want to change the color scheme, make new layers or copy visible layers. Put on gradient maps and mess with the layers and opacity. Make sure it's under the text+border layers.~Trake

11.Outlined Text
If you wish to add an outline to your text because it seems boring, try duplicating the layer, alpha to select on your duplicated layer and then press Edit<Stroke Selection and set it to 2-4. Then set your second layer below your text.

12.Clip Masking Text
Are you tired of the same old monotone text? Type your text and do Alpha To Select. Then Use any tool you would like and copy it. Go to your brushes selection and what you copied should be on as "Clipboard" brush. Brush around the Alpha To Select text as much as you would like.

13.Putting On A C4D
Find a c4d on PR or in a pack. Then download it. Once you got them, you can copy it and paste it onto a tag. Then set it to different modes. Some are screen, overlay, soft light, addition, and subtraction. There are more, expieriment! A good tut that's background is made of c4ds would be Zenron's Distant tutorial.
~Trake

14.Messed Up Rendering?
Rendering an image from a stock using the pentool? Just about to finish, but accidentally switched to another tool using a shortcut, and now you have to star all over? Never fear! Open your pentool tab (dialogs>create new dock>layers channels and paths) and double click the option of your latest pentooling and voila! ~Cysero's Orb

15.Watery Background
Start with new image of desired dimensions>Go through Filters > Render > Lava, a new window will appear>Create new Layer> select gradient named Horizon 2>Enjoy! ~Rambo

16.Transparent Borders
Layer<New Layer
Edit<Select All
Edit<Stroke Selection
At this point, select black as your foreground color and put the Stroke Selection to 10 pixels. Go back to stroke selection and change your foreground color to white and change the pixel size to 8. Repeat this method but lower the pixel size by 2 each time you use Stroke Selection until you get to 0 pixels. When you finished, change the layer to mode to "Overlay"

I'll add more as I find out more

< Message edited by Mo -- 6/16/2008 15:54:15 >
AQ MQ  Post #: 1
4/24/2008 6:29:28   
crazysk8er
Member

you should change the title to "GIMP tip" for the time being then :P

thats pretty useful for those that use the vine brush and sparks brush. nice tip
AQ DF  Post #: 2
4/24/2008 9:53:45   
Bone_funny
Member

you might want to add for 1 solid color make both your BG and FG the same color.
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 3
4/24/2008 10:48:18   
Mo
Member

Added a somewhat helpful new tip
AQ MQ  Post #: 4
4/24/2008 11:33:23   
Wen Su the Tank
Member

Mo Heres a good Tip
IF your Use BallPack Effect and use the brush Blob and Set It At a different Radius than set the layer to either DoDge or Screen Or soft Ligh or Even Lighten Only You Can Get A Nice Effect
AQ DF  Post #: 5
5/3/2008 22:04:34   
Mo
Member

Added a new tip
AQ MQ  Post #: 6
5/3/2008 22:09:26   
ShyTrake
Member

Easier way of recoloring: Click the layer you wanna colorize. If you wanna colorize the entire thing, go to edit>copy visible and then edit>paste and then layers>new layer. If you're not, just click the layer. Then go to colors>colorize and mess around the the settings until you get what you like.

Koolio tips (Where's the FAQ? Oh nevermind).

< Message edited by Trake -- 5/3/2008 22:10:45 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 7
5/3/2008 22:11:28   
Mo
Member

You could do that, the tip I put up there is for coloring numerous parts of a render, background, etc.
AQ MQ  Post #: 8
5/9/2008 22:11:25   
Mo
Member

New tip added.
AQ MQ  Post #: 9
5/10/2008 2:43:44   
Bling bla
Member

Gratz on the FAQ!
Post #: 10
5/10/2008 7:13:17   
Sonicbeam
Member

Glowing:
Make a new layer called "Glow" then use a circle brush and brush around the side of the render and then Gaussian Blur that layer at 20 for both.
DF MQ  Post #: 11
5/10/2008 9:16:37   
Mo
Member

Thanks, Bling Bla.
Added your tip, SonicBeam
AQ MQ  Post #: 12
5/10/2008 9:27:07   
Bling bla
Member

Addition!

Bucket Filling Shortcut
Did you know you can fill selection with a color without changing into the Bucket Fill tool? Simply drag the color from your palette into the layer to fill it!

This was one of the advices I found in gimptalk.com. I forgot the name though.. Anyway, credits to him!
Post #: 13
5/21/2008 15:54:41   
ShyTrake
Member

Changing the color scheme

If a tag has crazy colors that don't match and you want to change the color scheme, make new layers or copy visible layers. Put on gradient maps and mess with the layers and opacity. Make sure it's under the text+border layers.
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 14
5/21/2008 15:55:45   
ronin101
Member

im enjoying this alot it helps me with gimp alot thanks for making this
AQ DF  Post #: 15
5/21/2008 15:57:02   
Mo
Member

Your welcome =)

I'm gonna add Trake's tip and then text help tips that I found out yesterday
AQ MQ  Post #: 16
5/21/2008 16:14:14   
ShyTrake
Member

Um, It says my name for the outlined text thing not the gradient map tip...
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 17
5/24/2008 12:28:47   
Mo
Member

0_o
Changed it back.

I also numbered and redid the last tip. It was wrong.
AQ MQ  Post #: 18
5/24/2008 13:09:34   
ShyTrake
Member

Putting on a c4d
Find a c4d on PR or in a pack. Then download it. Once you got them, you can copy it and paste it onto a tag. Then set it to different modes. Some are screen, overlay, soft light, addition, and subtraction. There are more, expieriment! A good tut that's background is made of c4ds would be Zenron's Distant tutorial.
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 19
5/24/2008 13:47:39   
Mo
Member

Added it.
AQ MQ  Post #: 20
5/24/2008 14:06:09   
ShyTrake
Member

Wait...Puttin back a c4d? That doesn't make sense. Make it "C4ds" or something.
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 21
5/24/2008 18:15:46   
Saerokeon
Member
 

Rendering an image from a stock using the pentool? Just about to finish, but accidentally switched to another tool using a shortcut, and now you have to star all over? Never fear! Open your pentool tab (dialogs>create new dock>layers channels and paths) and double click the option of your latest pentooling and voila!
Post #: 22
5/24/2008 18:30:59   
Rambo55
Member

This Is very helpful!! Should be Merged to Gimp Help 101 or Stickied!

_____________________________

AQ DF MQ  Post #: 23
5/24/2008 19:38:15   
Mo
Member

I'm just going to put in the link to this thread. Thanks for the positive feedback.

Also, I added your tip, CO. I never knew that before.
AQ MQ  Post #: 24
5/24/2008 20:38:15   
Rambo55
Member

Oh ya I got a Hint for the Thread!


Its On Making a watery BG

Start with new image of desired dimensions>Go through Filters > Render > Lava, a new window will appear>Create new Layer> select gradient named Horizon 2>Enjoy!
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 25
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