My GIMP tutorial

We are going to make this kind of abstract art in GIMP today with this little tutorial.

Step 1: 
Load up GIMP and select Create a New Image, yes the resolution can be adjusted to any resolution of your choice. I selected 1680x1080 cause that's how big my monitor is. Go into Advanced Options and select, "Fill with:" and select Foreground Colour.

Step 2:
To get the Layers dialog box to show up press CTRL+L. Once that is up, right click inside the Layers and select New Layer. If that doesn't work or you're on a Mac. Click Layer > New Layer in the main window.

Step 3:
When the New Layer dialog box pops up, make sure it's on Transparency or this tutorial will not work.

Step 4:
Now that we have a blank transparent layer, we now select, Filters > Render > Nature > Flame for the main part.

Step 5:
Now we move onto the Flame dialog box, here we set the brightness to 2.00 and the Contrast to 1.50. After that, leave it.

Step 6:
From here we move onto the Camera tab, as long as it's not in the negatives or over 2.00 then it's fine. So this whole bit is completely optional but I recommend setting it to at least 1.50 or 2.00.

Step 7: 
Now we hit the Edit button, of course you can set the speed to whatever you want but for my favourite images I set it to 0.40. Of course you can leave it at the default now keep selecting Randomize till you get a small preview picture you like and then click it on the 9 windows. You can either keep clicking it to keep it the same or click Ok.

Step 8:
Now that you have applied it, GIMP will be drawing your selecting, depending on the resolution it can take up to 30 seconds to 5 minutes from my experience. When it has finished drawing you can select Colours > Colour Balance.

Step 9:
Now that the Colour Balance dialog box is up, you can change the Midtone, Highlights and Shadows to any colour experimenting with it. It doesn't have to look like mine but it's still nice. I set a default colour to 100 to maximize the full potential of the picture.

Step 10:
Last but not least remember to go to Image > Flatten Image when happy with your results and save as a .jpg

Just remember, you can do anything with these pictures.

Tuesday, 26th of October - 10:33 PM

Well, I set my alarm this morning for 7:20 am but instead ended up draggin' my ass out at 8:40 am getting ready before 9:30 am. Left for tafe at 9:30 am and continued my normal day. [blah, blah, blah, insert daily life here]

Got back home at 5:10 pm and returned to my natural slumber infront of the computer mucking around with GIMP and making an abstract picture.

I enjoy making those..
Hmm, nothing much else i've been doing except playing this:
http://www.totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.php
Left 4 Dead and uploading ...
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Monday, 25th of October - 7:51 PM

Can't sit tight no more, stretching back and forth on my computer chair scratching my head trying to think of ideas on how to make life more bright.. Ah, I just remembered what i'm listening to, "Pop A Pill - KoRn". Just think of this blog as a past, present and future perspective, you see shit from my point of view.

Today has been an average day, completing a photo editing task in the least amout of time possible to the point that, i've complete all of these "fun" exercises.

Flicking back and forth from steam and the blog talking to the guy that interacts the most out of my friends and "loves" my videos. He's such a nice guy, should try and fix my microphone so that it works on the better PC...

Vista PC is my main editing PC due to the fact it plays games like a slug, 30 - 40 frames is kinda jumpy and dodgy when trying to play a game like Counter-Strike: Source or Left 4 Dead. Although, my XP PC which can't edit for shit and doesn't recognise my mic runs Counter-Strike: Source at a fixed 299 frames and Left 4 Dead at around 60 - 100 frames.

Killing Floor will not run on XP due to the fact it receives a critical error while trying to load a new map or loading the previous map.

Sorry for the long post guys, will update you guys tomorrow! Catchas, comment below and follow this blog.

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