Hi Boris, I was just trying to get my screen to look like yours but no luck yet- I’m on a Mac running os 10.13.6 and my gimp is 2.10.14-
I’d love to get you a few of the pics so you can tell me what Im doing wrong-can you tell me how to upload them here in the forum or?
Maybe you can upload them somewhere online (google drive or dropbox) and give a link here? A small one, as an example, you can upload directly to a post, like I did above.
Hi,
no this is my first time with Gimp as I’ve always used photoshop before but wanted to try gimp. I have heard such wonderful things and I thought this would be a good project for me to start with. I have uploaded one so maybe you can let me know your thoughts-
thanks for everything!
wow! they both look great!! Can u walk me thru step by step starting at step one how do I get either/both of those images?
I also have a person ill upload that might be easier-
He asked me and I answered-below please see my response.
Hi,
no this is my first time with Gimp as I’ve always used photoshop before but wanted to try gimp. I have heard such wonderful things and I thought this would be a good project for me to start with.
I am only trying to learn. I had a few questions how he got both of the designs so I requested info on how he did each one.
Im sorry if somehow I offended you. All I am trying to do is learn how to do something in gimp. I have heard such wonderful things about it and about your user group.
Hi afre!
thank you so much for your designs-they were quite different but both amazing!
The kind of look I am going for is something similar to what Boris did with his houses design-a coloring book type but still able to see its a person or animal. I uploaded a pic of a drummer if thats easier to work with as its a person.
this is sort of what im looking to learn to do but more clean and crisp like Boris’s houses design
The outline isn’t very strong though and the iris is extra light. Trouble with the G’MIC plugin preview window is that it isn’t accurate at all, so I am fumbling in the dark. Maybe with a few tweaks, it would work.
wow! that looks great! you are right-just a hair bit darker- I probably didn’t explain it very well but hopefully the pic I uploaded helped…im trying to make a coloring book page from a jpg or png or? so it needs to look somewhat like the original but also allows for coloring fun…
The picture is a little dark and we have to lighten it up. The easiest way to do this is with Levels (Colors- Levels). Move the black, middle and white slider so that the photo gets brighter. See how I did that in the picture:
The photo is grainy and we have to denoise it. This can be done with Noise Reduction (Filters - Enhance - Noise Reduction). Just move the slider until the photo is denoised enough:
The cat has a lot of details (a lot of texture in the coat) and we have to reduce this without affecting the edges too much. This can be done with Selective Gausian Blur(Filter - Blur - Selective Gausian Blur). Blur radius should be high and Max delta low:
Now the photo is ready and we can remove the color with Desaturate module (Colors - Desaturte - Desaturate). Lightness is a standard option and you can leave it as it is:
Now we have to turn this result into a new layer. Go to the layer window, click with the right mouse button and choose the option “New From Visible” from the menu:
Now we choose this new layer and combine it with the one below. Activate this new layer, click with the right mouse button and choose the option “Merge down” from the menu:
Now we can try different blend modes (Mode in layer window above layer thumbnails) for this layer to get the desired look (overlay, grain merge, linear light etc.) Here is the example with overlay blend mode:
OMG Boris!! U ROCK!! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort for doing this step by step for me-its amazing!!
Let me ask you something…I adore what you did with your original you showed me of your houses on the water-is this the same way you got them or what makes it different? what kind of photos make them come out as perfect as your houses on the water?
I cannot thank you enough! Its very early here in LA–6am -but il going to try this now!
A million thank you!!
You can see in the original photo that the houses and the sky have clear edges and almost no details (blue sky, white walls). The trees and also the grass did not turn out so well, because they have many small “parts” (leaves, grasses) - so, too many small details.
That’s why I had to reduce the details of the cat (hair of the fur) with the help of blur to get good results.
All photos with subjects that have clear edges and not so much detail in between.