![]() It is my hope that these few examples will help to solve those small, quick modifications that you may need to apply to an image. ![]() Even if you don’t have time to learn advanced computer graphics, GIMP can still be a very useful and handy tool for quick image modifications. I did a Valentine for the Twilight movie to get a font, I just Googled "Twilight font" and got something pretty good.īelow you can see some of my before and after to get some ideas for what you can do.So you installed GIMP on your computer, congratulations! GIMP is a very powerful image manipulation software, but don’t let that intimidate you. Remember that Google is your friend and you can search for a lot of different fonts. You don't have to do this, but it makes it a lot of fun. I do these for Valentines, so I like to make cheesy sayings. Keep working at it until it looks seamless. (Don't forget, while adjusting the levels, in addition to value (black and white) you can also adjust the levels for red, green and blue) Go to Colors>Levels and adjust the levels until it matches well with the neck color. (Tip: if you erase too much, you can press and hold ALT while using the tool to anti erase.)Įven though the face is in place, the levels are off. Once you have erased the face, your face will appear instead. Then I use the erase tool and start from the nose erasing Orlando's face. ![]() I create a copy of the background layer and put it just above the face layer. It does not really matter how you do it, but this is how I do it: You can use layer masks, you can just erase the background, you can select the background and delete it etc. There are a lot of ways you can do this next step. Once the image is placed, turn the opacity back up. Image with the opacity down to help with placement I usually turn the opacity down on the "My face" layer so I can know exactly where I am placing it. Step 5 - Place your face on top of the celebrity's faceĬreate a new layer and call it something like "My face." Drag your face onto that layer and resize and place the image so it is exactly over the face on the layer below. The vibrant colors are now less vibrant and more earthy. The second image has Orlando's color palette applied. It might be easier to see the difference, in this example of flowers: These two images are using the exact same colors. Open the image of the face you wish to convert. Right click on a new or existing palette and select "Import palette." Select image as the source, give the palette a name and press import. With "Generate Optimum Palette" selected, click "Convert." Now go to Windows>Dockable Dialogs>Palettes With the picture up of the face, go to Image>Mode>Indexed. An easier way to do this is to apply the same color palette to our face as the face of Orlando. We can always try to tweak that by hand working with levels and hue and saturation, but I find this to be difficult. We want our skin tone to match the image as close as we can. Once you have it selected, delete the background and save the image (save as face.jpg or something like that). The only reason we are doing this is so that we can extract the colors. Use the free select tool and select just the face (no hair). Obviously it is pretty helpful to have someone who is pretty good at photography as well as someone who can guide your face while looking at the image you are trying to duplicate. It helps when you are doing this to look at the ears and see how much of the ears you want showing. My face will need to rotate a bit counter clockwise, but the angle is pretty good. It looks like I will need to do just that. ![]() You can rotate your face in Gimp, but not change the angle. Also try to get the angle to be the same as well. It is not perfect, but it is pretty good. Notice how I tried to get the lighting to be the same. It is easier to get the lighting right while taking the picture than trying to get it to look well in the Gimp. Lighting is really important we can change the skin tone, but changing lighting is extremely difficult. Get a light or two and set it in front of you put a smaller light to the left. There is a strong light to his front right, and also a smaller back light on his left. Looking at this photo it is pretty obvious where the light is coming from. Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean For this tutorial I will be using the Valentine I did for Pirates of the Caribbean.
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