GIMP Tutorials

Fake Depth of Field in GIMP

cooljeba — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:59:19 +0000

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.

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Painting the Chain of Holy Glare

cooljeba — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:25:29 +0000

used the Corel Photo-Paint to paint this picture and First I determined the general composition and Production of black and white rectangle, to take the color.

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Skype logo in GIMP

cooljeba — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:49:10 +0000

In this tutorial we will learn how to create the old Skype logo using GIMP. Follow these simple steps and by using gradients we can achieve it.

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Creating Planets and Planetary Rings in GIMP

cooljeba — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:32:15 +0000

This tutorial is very easy and the end result is all about what you prefer, so have fun playing around with colour and texture!

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Spicing up black and white images with Gimp

cooljeba — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:05:25 +0000

Today we try to spice up a grayscale image by coloring some parts. We use a photo of Rose McGowan (known from the TV series Charmed where she plays Paige Halliwell) as the original, color the whole image and especially point out the lips and eyes.

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Solar winds graphics effect

cooljeba — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:13:30 +0000

In this tutorial we want to create a dynamic effect where dotted rays get some movement. I decided to call it “solar winds” effect but I’m not quite sure if this is correct

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Sun breaking through clouds effect

cooljeba — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:59:50 +0000

How to create the effect of the sun’s rays breaking through clouds using the Supernova filter in GIMP.

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Quick trick to create smoother skin

cooljeba — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:53:14 +0000

Here’s a quick trick that allows you to smooth skin and give it a healthy glow using Gaussian Blur and Saturation blend in GIMP.

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Creating Dark Surreal Image in Gimp

cooljeba — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:57:45 +0000

This tutorial is all about creating an dark surreal using some free stock images from Deviant Art and i want to introduce some new trick – combining two great free software, Gimp and IrfanView. The composition is quite simple, but with a little inspiration you can create something really nice.

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HDR like effect to a normal potrait picture

cooljeba — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:55:06 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you my technique to add HDR-like effect to a normal potrait photo. The technique used some basic Gimp filter like Unsharp Mask and Neon, and also playing with layer mode.

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