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How to make a Cosmic Wallpaper
Posted by scottphotographics on Aug 29, 2010 into Tips & TricksThis tutorial will hopefully help inspire you to create your own custom wallpapers and produce a great results in the GIMP.
Making a Starry Filter Effect
Posted by scottphotographics on Aug 20, 2010 into Tips & TricksPhotographers use Star Filters sometimes to really make the highlights stand out, but if you do not have one you can use GIMP to reproduce the effect.
How to make a Globe/Planet photo manipulation
Posted by scottphotographics on Jul 31, 2010 into Tips & TricksThis photo manipulation is called a stereographic projection, which takes a standard photograph and stretches it around in a circle creating a Globe or Planet like image!
Making Skies dramatic
Posted by scottphotographics on Jul 20, 2010 into Tips & TricksAn easy way to make ordinary white cloud on blue skies into dramatic significant parts of your photographs. This is a very simple trick to do in GIMP and the results are great!
Making Photographs Black & White in GIMP
Posted by scottphotographics on Jul 7, 2010 into Tips & TricksBlack and White images have been neglected ever since the introduction of colour into film photography, due to the fact that colour is 'best' and what we see (colour) is the true beauty of a scene/object. As this is the case now, whenever black and white images are created it is perceived as a kind of artistic aesthetic that the photographer has wanted to achieve and considering colour is the norm now, this photograph is viewed in a different light and more of an artists creation rather than the representative. So, I hope to get you more creative in experimenting …
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Creating Tileable Marble Textures with The GIMP
Posted by peteryu on Jul 5, 2010 into Tips & TricksA simple method to create marble textures with the GIMP.
Striped Background Design
Posted by monsoonami on Jul 3, 2010 into Tips & TricksThis video tutorial shows how to easily create horizontal and vertical stripes without resorting to a premade pattern or other more complicated techniques. The stripes are used to make a simple design that could be used for a desktop wallpaper or for other purposes.
Turning a Photograph into a Polka Dot Image
Posted by scottphotographics on Jul 1, 2010 into Tips & TricksThis a very quick simple tutorial and a bit of fun! I have made a range of different size (50px, 75px, 100px, 150px) patterns so you can easily apply the effect in seconds. I suggest you try some masking of layers as well to experiment with the design.
How to make a Hockney style Photograph in GIMP
Posted by scottphotographics on Jun 19, 2010 into Tips & TricksDavid Hockney is known for his unusual panoramas that are made up of differently scaled and angled photos. To produce the 'Hockney' effect it is best done with multiple photographs that can be arranged later, but you can have a single photograph that you'd like to make into a multiple imaged panorama - with the use of GIMP!
Glass Text Effect
Posted by monsoonami on Jun 16, 2010 into Tips & Trickssimple translucent glass text effect
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