Artwork for All - challenges, graphics, tutorials

[SnowWhite]

sooo.. I finally found my way here. too.. took me long enough -.-
but at least I brought some arties

a bit older:




a bit newer (trying to get my long lost mojo back):

[maneth]

Cool! I particularly like your current sig.

[Rocket_Scientist]

Great artwork everyone - way too many pages for me to catch up on and comment for. Sadly I was too sick last week to enter something for the cropping challenge - very impressed with what everyone did.



I'm not a mask expert but if I have something like a couple of larger pictures that I want to fade into each other I use masks (GIMP). On the top layer, right click and choose add layer mask - make it white. Then choose the gradient tool (set to black and white) and click and drag from the point of overlap with the lower layer to the edge of your top image. If you find your top image totally disappears then it just means you've dragged your gradient in the wrong direction so undo and try it the other way. The last step is to right click on the layer that has the mask and choose apply layer mask. Once you do this you can't remove the mask BUT the beauty of doing this is that you can repeat the same steps again - to get more fade or to change the direction of your fade. Sometimes I've done many repetitions to get as much fade all around an image that I needed. I'm not sure if I've explained this very well - if not and you are interested I can take some screen dumps and make more of a tutorial for this

The other thing masks are useful for is to get rid of everything around a selection - you can apply a layer mask - type selection - and it only retains what's selected. Again to make it permanent (and thus be able to drag things around and copy them to other layers/files, you need to apply the layer mask. (of course you can just do this by inverting your selection and pressing delete - there is always more than one way to do everything in GIMP!! )

Is any of that useful?

Sha! You're back!
Sorry to hear you were sick, and hope you're feeling better. The mask tips are very helpful. I'll see if I can find time to do some mask practice this week.

[ShaViva]

Sha! You're back!
Sorry to hear you were sick, and hope you're feeling better. The mask tips are very helpful. I'll see if I can find time to do some mask practice this week.

Thanks rocket - missed posting here and in all my usual threads so it's nice to be back, and yes, much better thank you Hope you have some success with masking

[ShaViva]

I'm trying to think of a bad guy but nothing's coming to mind ...

[maneth]

I'm having the same problem Sha... Great to see you back!

[yamiinsane]

Love the arts

and Thank you lg She's the lead singer for the Norwegian Folk Metal band Midnattsol and the sister to Live Kristine, lead singer of Leaves' Eyes

[ladygris]

You're welcome, yamii.

[Sarai]

Evening all! Doing a little catc up...

Sha, sorry to hear you've been sick, hope you feel better soon

Another one...

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[]http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i448/syfyfan2/artworks/challenge/artforall/baal.jpg[/]

Ahhh!! Totally awesome as alway Sy!! LOVE Ba'al

Hey, everyone. New set (since I'm apparently still enjoying cropping ).

[]http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/ladygris4700/Gimped%20Images/Carson/PMGCropPileGWIcon.jpg[/]

[]http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/ladygris4700/Gimped%20Images/Carson/PMGCropPileBanner.jpg[/]

[]http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/ladygris4700/Gimped%20Images/Carson/th_PMGCropPileWallie.jpg[/]

Gorgeous, these are fantastic, as ever

sooo.. I finally found my way here. too.. took me long enough -.-
but at least I brought some arties

a bit older:
[]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6131/sancthpava.jpg[/]

[]http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/3333/sancthpsig.jpg[/]

a bit newer (trying to get my long lost mojo back):
[]http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/1743/sigbacknikola.jpg[/]

Great to see you Snow and thanks for joining in with the fun, awesome arties You gonna enter this weeks challenge? I'm still trying to decide on a baddie *sigh*

[bailey1ak]

Love seeing all the new art and people's take on the baddies... hope to find time to think of a baddie and do up a sig.

[DeliRicia]

Mh, I see ... Have you tried to change the brush when you turned the pic into a painting?

Made another wallie:

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/a..._sciwallie.jpg

I made the coloring after the painting cause Evan's eyes were too black.

New artwork:







Gifs:

Spoiler:

[syfyfan]

SnowWhite, very nice!

Thanks Sarai!

Deli, I love it!

[Hyndara71]

Deli, the gifs are awesome! *so in love with Robocop Andy!*

Sy, wonderful take on Ba'al! Aaaand snurched

[syfyfan]

Deli, the gifs are awesome! *so in love with Robocop Andy!*

Sy, wonderful take on Ba'al! Aaaand snurched

Thanks

[yamiinsane]

Deli: Love them lots