Graphic Arts Tutorials, Textures, Resources Thread

[DJgirl]

all right... two versions... with different text

i used luci's tut.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...confused-1.png
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u..._of_hell-1.png

thank you Faine for the text ideas

I like it and how you added the gate to it as well! Nicely done.

That's gorgeous, DJ ! Have no idea who he is but *t h u n k*

I've been wondering how to do this for ages, and I found the tut on the first page. It's a sig for our challenge of the week over on the S/J Art Thread:

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...roftheship.jpg

He is Michael Weatherly, he plays on NCIS and used to be in Dark Angel with Jessica Alba.

Love the siggy. Such a great episode!!

[Fainne]

That episode was amazing! I loved it.

one of the best imo!

That's gorgeous, DJ ! Have no idea who he is but *t h u n k*

I've been wondering how to do this for ages, and I found the tut on the first page. It's a sig for our challenge of the week over on the S/J Art Thread:

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...roftheship.jpg

Michael Weatherly, gorgeous actor!

love your attempt. and it goes perfectly with this week's challenge. so hippy.

[Luciana]

Here's my take on this tut. I really like the colorings you used for this one, Luci!

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...herlyluci2.jpg

Michaaaeeeel! Look at that hotness!
I love it.

all right... two versions... with different text

i used luci's tut.

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OI. That combination is very awesome.

[Stargate78fan]

Love the new beautiful textures and thanks for sharing.

Love the new artworks.

[kali1]

New tut anyone? ;D

How to do something like that:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...enJaredFin.jpg

Simply awesome Luci!!!!

[kali1]

thank you for the great tut luci

edit: thank you snowy for the textures *hugs*


only these two. The GAD was the original one and this tutorial/resources thread is kind of a spin-off we needed a place where we could put all our tut's, textures, brushes etc. together. This thread is also for technical questions so no need to be afraid But i think if you have a GIMP question you really better ask it over in the S/J thread because i don't know if someone here uses GIMP.

I'm a GIMPER too Just ask if you have questions

[kali1]

hopefully attached


thanks for the tuts luci and snowball

What exactly is PaintDaubs?

[Padme18]

Help! I can't remember how to install fonts.

[Snowball]

Help! I can't remember how to install fonts.

Ya go to control panel, then to appearance and themes, there you will see fonts in the left hand corner in a box called See also, click on fonts, then go to file-install new font, and just find the font hope that helps

I made this sig with Lucis new tut

[spork67]

a sheyla siggy made with luci's most recent tut:

[Padme18]

Thanks Snow.

[Snowball]

a sheyla siggy made with luci's most recent tut:
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...nickelback.png

Love love love!! you gotta go drop it off at the jt thread

Thanks Snow.

np

[Snowball]

That sig tut

Spoiler:

Start of with this pic and scale it to about 800 by 1020

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then color it with this

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Sharpen base to 60

Now, use color balance on the base and use these settings:
------> midtones: -75, -75, -80
------> shadows: -15, -20, 0
------> highlights: 0, 0, -15


Duplicate your base & set it to Screen at 70%


Now use Brightness/Contrast on the screened layer and set it to these settings:
------> brightness: 50
------> contrast: 30


Next up is making 3 new layers and fill all of them with #0e1741
------> set the 1st one to screen 30%
------> set the 2nd one to screen 30%
------> set the 3rd to subtract 45%


Duplicate your base and drag it all the way to the top, then set it to Overlay 30%

Make a new layer and fill it with #ede3d2 and set it to overlay 20%

midtones: 0, -25, 0

Then duplicate the picture and desaturate that new copy.

Left Click on the desaturated layer in the layer box and choose Add layer mask and choose White (full opacity)

Now to make the eyes pop up you take the paint brush tool (make sure its on black) and color the eyes. (On the desaturated copy)

If its done correctly then the eyes are colored while the rest of the space is still gray.

You can mess with the opacity of the desaturated layer to give Joe's face some color cause personally i thought it looked to weird with just the eyes with color.

Merge both layers.

Now the base is this one

Spoiler:

Scale the height of it to 200 and be sure that it keeps its proportions, then duplicate it and set that copy to softlight 100%.

Make sure that the base layers are under Joe's face and then just smudge the part of the picture so that it blend well with the background.

Then just add this

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and set to softlight.

Add the text. I used Jane Austen and thats pretty much it

Any questions or things that dont add up let me know

[kali1]

OHOHOH!!!!!

Love it SNOWY!!!!!

you did an awesome job as always!!!!

[Snowball]

OHOHOH!!!!!

Love it SNOWY!!!!!

you did an awesome job as always!!!!

Ah chucks thanks