Re: Fan Art Tutorials
Posted: Jul 13, 2012 4:24 pm
Tutorial #120 - This: to this: using Gimp. Translatable.
Requested by Ithilwen.
Open and prep image/base. I was making a POI icon again, and for this one I was using a wide shot of Reese as he oh-so-epically walks away from the wrecked car in the Pilot episode. *rubs hands together gleefully* I began by resizing the image, scaling it, and then removing the car and the CBS logo because I found them distracting and I wanted the focus to be on just him.
*nods* I approve of this. Onward!
Like my previous tutorial, I had this icon saved as a project, but unlike my previous tutorial I really have no idea what coloring I did on my first step. I'm not even sure what coloring tool I used, although it was likely Color Balance or Levels but I didn't find a matching preset saved in either one so I really don't know.
The good news is that this step is probably not essential to the final product of your icon, and I'm not even sure why I did it on mine because I had completely undone it by the time I was finished. *shrug* At any rate, I shall bypass this coloring step and show you what I did afterwards.
After my unknown first step, I boosted the coloring by going to Colors>Hue Saturation and raising the Master Saturation to +50.
I added this: set to Multiply at 100%.
I then duplicated the base layer, brought it to the top, set it on Screen at 100% and then flattened my image.
The Screen layer brightened the image up, and the blue texture beneath it kept the sky from being completely washed out.
I wanted to add some more blue tones, so I opened up Colors>Levels...
Value: 0, 1, 250. | 10, 255.
Red: 0, 1.10, 255. | 0, 255.
Green: 5, 1, 255. | 0, 255.
Blue: 20, 1.20, 220. | 10, 255.
I then lowered the opacity of that layer to 50% and flattened the image.
I opened Colors>Brightness-Contrast: -15, +10.
I then boosted the coloring again by using Hue-Saturation and setting the Master Saturation on +10.
I sharpened the image a bit (Filters>Enhance>Sharpen).
I'm not sure why, but I did some Channel Mixer here because apparently I thought it needed to be even more vibrant.
Red: 160, -60, 0.
Green: 0, 100, 0.
Blue: -60, 65, 100.
Preserve Luminosity: off.
I erased everything on that layer except the sky, because I liked what it did to the blue but the rest of it was too intense.
I then duplicated the base layer, brought it to the top, did that exact same Channel Mixer on it and then lowered the layer opacity to 25%.
I flattened my image and used the Blur/Sharpen tool to blur out any pixely spots that I didn't like in the sky. (Nit-picky icon maker, here!)
I added this: set to Soft Light at 65%. This darkened the top of the image.
I added this: set to Screen at 100%.
And I ended up with this:
That's all, folks.
PM me if you have any questions!
Please do not copy exactly.
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Tutorial #121 - This: to this: recreating this: using Gimp. Translatable.
Requested by Ithilwen.
Open and prep image/base. My base was pretty dark, so I started out by brightening it up with some Curves...
Value: x: 51, y: 106. | x: 117, y: 228.
Red: x: 111, y: 116.
Green: x: 117, y: 122.
Blue: x: 111, y: 114.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%.
I flattened my image.
I opened up Colors>Levels and used one of my favorite presets to add a bit more of a bluish-red tone.
Value: 0, 1, 250. | 10, 255.
Red: 0, 1.10, 255. | 0, 255.
Green: 5, 1, 255. | 0, 255.
Blue: 20, 1.20, 220. | 10, 255.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%, and then flattened my image.
I duplicated my base layer, went to Filters>Blur>Guassian Blur and blurred the duplicated layer with a blur radius of 5. I set the blurred layer on Soft Light at 25%.
I flattened my image and then sharpened it a bit as a final step.
That's all. It's not a perfect recreation, but it's pretty close.
(recreation)
(original)
PM me if you have any questions!
Please do not copy exactly.
--- flambeau
Requested by Ithilwen.
Open and prep image/base. I was making a POI icon again, and for this one I was using a wide shot of Reese as he oh-so-epically walks away from the wrecked car in the Pilot episode. *rubs hands together gleefully* I began by resizing the image, scaling it, and then removing the car and the CBS logo because I found them distracting and I wanted the focus to be on just him.
*nods* I approve of this. Onward!
Like my previous tutorial, I had this icon saved as a project, but unlike my previous tutorial I really have no idea what coloring I did on my first step. I'm not even sure what coloring tool I used, although it was likely Color Balance or Levels but I didn't find a matching preset saved in either one so I really don't know.
The good news is that this step is probably not essential to the final product of your icon, and I'm not even sure why I did it on mine because I had completely undone it by the time I was finished. *shrug* At any rate, I shall bypass this coloring step and show you what I did afterwards.
After my unknown first step, I boosted the coloring by going to Colors>Hue Saturation and raising the Master Saturation to +50.
I added this: set to Multiply at 100%.
I then duplicated the base layer, brought it to the top, set it on Screen at 100% and then flattened my image.
The Screen layer brightened the image up, and the blue texture beneath it kept the sky from being completely washed out.
I wanted to add some more blue tones, so I opened up Colors>Levels...
Value: 0, 1, 250. | 10, 255.
Red: 0, 1.10, 255. | 0, 255.
Green: 5, 1, 255. | 0, 255.
Blue: 20, 1.20, 220. | 10, 255.
I then lowered the opacity of that layer to 50% and flattened the image.
I opened Colors>Brightness-Contrast: -15, +10.
I then boosted the coloring again by using Hue-Saturation and setting the Master Saturation on +10.
I sharpened the image a bit (Filters>Enhance>Sharpen).
I'm not sure why, but I did some Channel Mixer here because apparently I thought it needed to be even more vibrant.
Red: 160, -60, 0.
Green: 0, 100, 0.
Blue: -60, 65, 100.
Preserve Luminosity: off.
I erased everything on that layer except the sky, because I liked what it did to the blue but the rest of it was too intense.
I then duplicated the base layer, brought it to the top, did that exact same Channel Mixer on it and then lowered the layer opacity to 25%.
I flattened my image and used the Blur/Sharpen tool to blur out any pixely spots that I didn't like in the sky. (Nit-picky icon maker, here!)
I added this: set to Soft Light at 65%. This darkened the top of the image.
I added this: set to Screen at 100%.
And I ended up with this:
That's all, folks.
PM me if you have any questions!
Please do not copy exactly.
----------------------------
Tutorial #121 - This: to this: recreating this: using Gimp. Translatable.
Requested by Ithilwen.
Open and prep image/base. My base was pretty dark, so I started out by brightening it up with some Curves...
Value: x: 51, y: 106. | x: 117, y: 228.
Red: x: 111, y: 116.
Green: x: 117, y: 122.
Blue: x: 111, y: 114.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%.
I flattened my image.
I opened up Colors>Levels and used one of my favorite presets to add a bit more of a bluish-red tone.
Value: 0, 1, 250. | 10, 255.
Red: 0, 1.10, 255. | 0, 255.
Green: 5, 1, 255. | 0, 255.
Blue: 20, 1.20, 220. | 10, 255.
I added this: set to Soft Light at 100%, and then flattened my image.
I duplicated my base layer, went to Filters>Blur>Guassian Blur and blurred the duplicated layer with a blur radius of 5. I set the blurred layer on Soft Light at 25%.
I flattened my image and then sharpened it a bit as a final step.
That's all. It's not a perfect recreation, but it's pretty close.
(recreation)
(original)
PM me if you have any questions!
Please do not copy exactly.
--- flambeau