First Gimp Sig

[Colonel Ronan]

Well, I tried it out for the first time.

I'm not sure what to think really, I looked at a few tutorials, and downloaded a few brushes. I have a question though: How to I make the image (the Arsenal logo, or w/e) more "blended in"? Is there a tool?

Also, can somebody give me a link to some Gimp brush/text sites? Help me out!

 

[cpawfan]

Well, other than that hideous Arsenal logo, pretty good for a first attempt

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Haha, thanks.

 

[isrus]

its looks good, but i would put a space between main and event

 

[bbwMax]

Wow better then my first go lol. What i do to make it Blend is either turn down the Opacity of the Arsenal logo or I Smudge then edges with little Percentage.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Yeah, I'll think I'll add that space.

Thanks Max. I found a good font site (www.dafont.com) just extract to your Desktop, Start>Run>type "Fonts">Copy and paste the font file in to the font folder.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Well, here's my second:

 

[#1_War_Poet_ForLife]

IMO, the splotches of color in the foreground takes away from a great composition.

 

[GMJ]

I see that you tried to blend the main render by just erasing a bit; there are better ways to do so. I'm not sure how to do this on gimp, but in photoshop each layer has different properties of how it exists in the picture: color dodge, linear dodge, overlay, soft light, etc...

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Alright, thanks. I've been watching a few more tutorials. Also, does anybody know how to do the style in my sig? (Marley, Morrison, and Hendrix one)

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Hendrix:

I like the colours.

 

[GMJ]

It looks like you tried to emulate the style in your sig? It looks like it has potential, although the b/w image looks too disjointed from the color in the background and text. Try using a gradient map on top of this to unify the color schemes (not sure what they call this in gimp, though).

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Alright, how do I make that cartoon-ish look?

 

[JCB]

The cartoon-ish look you want is called vectoring. There's a "cheater's" way of doing it in PS that I don't remember right now. GIMP can't do it though, I don't think. It's been a while since I used it though, so the newer versions might have something.

fyi, see this for an example of what true vectoring is. It's a pain in the ass. Most people who vector take days (sometimes weeks depending on the vector's complexity) to complete their work. This is what experienced vector artists can accomplish after a ridiculous amount of practice and patience (hi-res version). It's tough work. I've tried it a few times but got too frustrated to finish. Mad difficult.

And one more tid-bit. True vectoring is done in Illustrator. People tend to do vector work in Photoshop, but it's not a true vector; rather, it's a raster image. A vector won't pixelate no matter how far you zoom in. Raster images will pixelate, like those made in PS.

 

[GMJ]

I'm not sure, it looks like a vector image.

edit: lol or just read what's above.

 

[cpawfan]

http://vectormagic.com/

It sucks, but it isn't surprising that this became a pay site. It started as a free tool developed by Stanford students