Creative fun with Gimp or other graphics

How did you do that?

I am self taught, and haven't been doing this for very long...only had gimp running for 24 hours, so bare with me.


....Have to crawl before I walk. Just an L plater!

Now that's the spirit Erotica..... hahahahaha


Not bad actually!!

hahahahahhahahaha ;P

Erotica, can you shrink your first one, I want to see it all.

hahaha

Lol...thanx erotica, love the pic..(grad)...oh and not sure if you realised, but the above image has that 21 year old paedophiles head in the top right and left bottom corner, it's not overly visible when animated, can you see it?


Very creative Erotica, re- the grad pic.

Erotica....had you blured the whole clip (the one with me in robes, minus the captions... with the adition of another friend of mine with long curly red/auburn hair)...it would have looked almost as realistic as the one hanging on my parents wall.


See if you can smudge in another female in robes matching this discription, then blur the whole image.... because if you could, I would be almost tempted to show my family, minus the captions of course.


;P

And if it's not too much trouble, try and layer it over the top of this background.

Something for Carl, and great to see they are working

Really Carl, that's a little inappropriate for public viewing don't you think?


And please, let there not be snow.........uh....oh.....

____________________________________

And then there was snow....hmmm

I feel generous today, and will let you all in on a few secrets so you may create some of these animated images yourselves.

To create the above, I used 3 different programs....

1) I found an image of a bloke with a nicotine patch on his arm (google images)...I clicked on it, then enlarged it to full size, then saved the image in Gif...using an on-board vista snipping tool...which is this icon on my toolbar


Note: When using vistas snipping tool , select "rectangular snip", not free form, it's easier for square or rectangular images...lol unless you have a steady hand..pmsl Even if you don't have vista, most Operating systems have their own snipping tool ,... Go to search box on your computer, (windows) and search snipping tool...if it doesn't come up, you will have to download one which is compatible with your OS...they download in seconds, they are tiny programs...are usually add-ons/ browser plug-ins.


2)Then I opened Gimp for the fine text work on the nicotine patch... I should have blended it better though...but it's just for fun, so didn't go to the trouble.

Gimp is a free image and photo editing program, it's not absolutely essential, but comes in handy for fine work...blending neck lines into clothing for a realistic effect applying layers and removing heads from bodies and replacing them with others, alternatively if you have photoshop on deck, just use this, or some other image and text manipulation program. There are heaps of free online ones which will make this easy for you if you cant be assed going to the bother I have. But the result wont be as good. The text wont be as professional looking, and if you have a look at Eroticas Dennis Ferguson speech bubble text-over...you will see what I mean. This is ok for here but, as we are just playing around.

3) Save the image as gif, then move onto microsoft office word, click insert, and upload the gif image. Then when you have the canvas to work on, select the shapes tag, and you will see all sorts of groovy call-outs, stars and banners etc pop up...select one, then put it into your image. A text box should pop up straight away for you to write your text into...and again, you can use a number of free online speech bubble/cloud generators, but they aren't as professional looking... one good one I know of is called PICFONT (add text to image) of which is a user friendly free online generator, very simple to use, but again, not as "crisp"..

4)Then I went over to LUNAPIC...(I actually only have to right click on an image for this application to load up as I have it programmed into my firefox browser as a plug in for instant access).....but you can go there manually, then I animated my production by adding jitter, movement and then afterwards, snow.

I then selected the upload to imageshack option, then when it uploaded I copied the link for direct layout option...then clicked on this forums "image icon" waited for the link dialogue box to pop up then pasted my imageshack direct link into it then selected OK....it then impresses straight into the reply field.


I find using a few tools suits me best, I use others, but these are probably the ones I use the most.

Have fun!

Once you get the hang of it, you can whip them up within minutes.

Note, you can save screen snips in GIF, HTML, JPEG or PNG...don't have to save them in GIF.

I clicked too many times, this forum has flood control.


Doh!

pmsl

When you download lunapic from...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52808

(so long as you are using a firefox browser)....all you do is right click on any image you see online then click the "Edit pic on Lunapic.com" option....and the image you selected will automatically load onto the page over on lunapic for you to play with....you can add text, animation, effects, all sorts of fun things.