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Cope57
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 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2025 12:19 am Post subject: Making lightning in the Gimp |
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I am going to attempt a tutorial of creating a lightning bolt using the Gimp.
My current Gimp version is 2.4.7, so some of these steps may be slightly different than your version.
- Open the Gimp.
- Select File, and then New.
- I selected 1440x900 for a wallpaper for my screen resolution.
- Select the Rectangle Select Tool and select part of your image like so.
- Use the Bucket Fill Tool, and fill the selected area with black.
- Select None, to unselect the current selection.
- Select Filters, Blur, Gaussian Blur. Select between 190 - 200 for the blur radius.
- Select Filters, Render, Clouds, Difference Clouds
X and Y settings were about 10
Detail was set to 15
You should start to see something resembling lightning, but it is the wrong color.
- Select Colors, Invert
Now the lightning is starting to take shape.
- Select Colors, Levels.
- Select and drag the black triangle from the Input towards the right, until only the lightning is still visible.
So, what you should have now is a lightning bolt. Lets add some color to liven it up.
- Select Colors, Colorize. Saturation 100, and I selected the Hue to be somewhere between 205 and 215 for a nice blue.
And the results.
- If you wish to copy and paste the lightning into and other image, or maybe to add more lightning bolts, Select By Color, and select the black area.
- Then select Invert
Rotate add curves instead of straight line in your steps and tweak the settings to your liking...
Enjoy._________________ This block is for DISTRO information ONLY, all other information will be removed by the Site Administrators.
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Cope57
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You probably never knew my tux was Carbon fiber. It is kind of hard to tell since it is such a small scale of the original. 
I have my tux xcf file if you want to manipulate one for yourself.
| crouse wrote: | Very nice ! 
Thank you very much for sharing. Your getting to be very proficient with the gimp, I'm jealous |
I have challenged those that use Photochop and Inkscape many times to "create" stuff from scratch.
Many can manipulate graphics, but from scratch I do better than them most the time.
I am somewhat bragging, but I have learned long ago, it is not the tools that you use, it is what you can do with them.
I was inspired by watching videos of people using MS Paint. First thing I thought was MS Paint is not a worthy product, but after looking at a few videos, I figured I should be doing better with the tools I am currently using. So, I hunt down tutorials try them out, and attempt to do better than the tutorials.
You want a list of Gimp tutorials, here you go._________________ This block is for DISTRO information ONLY, all other information will be removed by the Site Administrators.
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