Help a newbie on Gimp

[Maddiie Holland]

So this is official, real official banner, so don't laugh. It's very simple, though I need help finishing it.

that's the banner I'm using for my tut,

this is my banner

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these are the last of following instructions that I don't get.

now paste in the butterfly wings and move it's layer in between the texture
and the first taylor picture. set it to lighten only - 100 and drag it up to where
it looks like it's coming out of taylor's back. then add in the blue lights and
put it as the top layer, and set it to lighten only - 100.

once you do all of that, feel free to add your own text, any other
shading, or textures and you're done!

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What does she mean by layer?
Between which texture?
What top Layer?
Where can I see the layers?
And when she says lightening to only 100?
What she means by that?

HELP thanks in advance and further comments are welcome.
I want to improve so I can do more graphics thanks ♥

 

[Patricia Styx]

What does she mean by layer?
Layers are whenever you add a new picture to your overal picture so you have a whole pile of pictures added to make just one. So when you save a picture you should save it as an .xcf instead of a .png so you can keep the layers the way they are.

Between which texture?
The texture would be the main grey part of the picture in the background so when you put the two pictures of Taylor in they would show up as layers above the grey one.

What top Layer?
The is probably the last picture of Taylor you put on, persumably the small picture.

Where can I see the layers?
One the right hand side of your screen you will see a long bar with all the pictures you've added on to your signature so far, all seperated. These are your layers and are in order of when they were placed on the banner.

And when she says lightening to only 100?
At the top of this bar there should be a drop down box that says 'normal.' Click the drop down box and select 'lighten only.' And by 100, that means to leave the transperancy of it at 100 (the fullest)

Hope this helps

 

[Sierra Marie]

Thanks Pat this help, somewhat >>_<< just the layer box did not want to come up,
I went on google for help. I manage to get the box, but everything I was doing wasn't showing up, except for the background. i click on the inside of the first layer and kept pressing new layer, but it wasn't working. Any more helpful suggestions?

Here what I did not similar to the pix but its not bad

No text

Text but from LunaPic, not the best but I wanted to see what it will look like with it

Comments are welcome ♥

 

[Kalani Mauven]

That's really good Madz. I prefer it without the text, personally. But it's still really nice.

 

[Sierra Marie]

Thank you Alexis ♥ hopefully I'll know how to download text and more texture, plus stuff Right now it's getting use to this program first

 

[Anya Kozlova]

My first coloring and stuff

Results

Comments are welcome ♥

 

[Professor Misha Haden]

The first banner is really good! A whole lot better than my first. lol.

As for the colouring, It's good, you just need to make it brighter. And limit the
amount of Saturation layers used. Like, when I changed This to this
The background is slightly different, but I made sure, that I had a few brighten layer to even everything out.
But overall really great first attempts!

 

[Selwin Snape]

Really great first turnout Maddy.

But as Emzies said, make it slightly lighter, that's all you need to do, otherwise, fantastic job for a first.

 

[Anya Kozlova]

Thanks guys

I know I think I press the contrast button more than once >_< LOL

But thanks, any suggestions in making it brighter is always good (I went by a tut so it's like how do you get from one place to another) Very confusing but I'm getting a hand of it

 

[Selwin Snape]

To be honest Maddy, I would suggest you not use the tutorials and explore GIMP on your own. That's what I did with PS, I literally never used tutorials, I experiments myself, changing colors, contrast, hue and saturation, adjusting opacity and all that stuff. I would suggest you experiment on your own, that way, you actually learn something, instead of following a tutorial that is telling you what to do, and not really learning anything. That's just my .02.

 

[Anya Kozlova]

Nah I like tut, they help me understand it better. If I do it myself I'll get frustrated but thanks

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So I was up basically all night cleaning and such than got really into gimp >>_<< TEE HEE but here's what I blended up, hope you like it, epically my little sis (Kasey) as Maddiie

First Blend

and than from there on I just fulled around alot with it, not much with coloring just blending, okay maybe a little color

This

and

that :3

the one without text but hearts, lemme know what you think ¢¾ thanks

Tadaah got it bby :3

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More Coloring

I really like this one it's a blue tint but I dunno, I like it

Sally Banner

I didn't think I can do girly, but with Kasey guess I can ♥

 

[Ashutosh Makwa]

Learn how to color text More examples

Yeah her hair was kinda hard, but I adore it at the same time

Comments are welcome ¢¾