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February 2009

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17 March 2008 @ 07:36 pm

Tutorial #2

dnies7 asked me to do a tutorial for the Lauren-Birthday-banner I posted yesterday.

So, here it is!

Made in GIMP 2.4

1. Open a new file with the size 550x300 px.

2. Add this texture as background. (It’s a combination of these three textures (1, 2, 3) and cloud brushes.)

3. Take this picture of Lauren, crop it (to the width of 500 px in this case) and position it.

4. Remove the background of the picture.

5. Now duplicate the Lauren-layer two times. Set the one on the top to soft light and the second one to screen 30%.

6. Merge those three layers and sharpen the now merged layer.

7. Go to colors - levels
(What we do now is, that we enhance the contrast, the brightness and the saturation. We also reduce the amount of red and add a bit of blue.)

value: 25 - 1,30 - 220
red: 0 - 0,75 - 255
green: no changes
blue: 0 - 1,05 - 255

8. Now use the selective Gaussian blur on the Lauren-layer with the settings 1,00 and 30 to smooth out the pic a bit.

9. Add a shadow behind Lauren. For this go to filter - light and shadows - Xach-effect - OK. Delete the new “Highlight”-layer, put the shadow-layer under the Lauren-layer and set the opacity of the shadow to 30%.

10. For the text I used a font called "Mickey", color #a12330, size 40. Duplicate the text-layer and set it to soft light. Add a shadow with the Xach-effect and put the two new layers under the text-layers. Change the opacity of the shadow-layer to 30%.

11. Last but not least add two new layers, fill them with #0a0c30, set the one on the top to screen and the second one to substract.

And that's it!

I hope you understand everything. If you have any problems just ask me.=)

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janemauz on March 17th, 2008 07:23 pm (UTC)

Wow, danke. Ich mag den Banner doch so. Dann isses auch noch ein GIMP Tut! :D Das werd ich doch morgen mal probieren! *knuff*

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lucky_cloudy on March 17th, 2008 10:50 pm (UTC)

Bitte, hab ich doch gern gemacht.=) Viel Spaß beim Ausprobieren!

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xo_daniellex3 on March 18th, 2008 01:48 am (UTC)

Oh, cool! Thanks for making this. Definitely gonna have to try it out soon!

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lucky_cloudy on March 18th, 2008 02:48 pm (UTC)

You're welcome! Have fun trying it!=)

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baoying on March 18th, 2008 08:27 pm (UTC)

Looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to give it a shot myself.

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 03:24 pm (UTC)

Thanks! Have fun trying it!=)

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bottledenigma on March 18th, 2008 11:18 pm (UTC)

definitely going to try this, thanks for sharing :)

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 03:25 pm (UTC)

You're welcome!:D

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lizetm on March 18th, 2008 11:59 pm (UTC)

I'm going to try it, it looks easy and fun. :D

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 03:26 pm (UTC)

Yeah, it's not difficult at all. Enjoy!=)

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ele_309 on March 19th, 2008 11:32 am (UTC)

awww bummer Gimp, das krieg ich nicht gebacken. :P Arbeitest du auch mit photoshop? Ich mage deinen Stil doch so, würd ihn gern mal nachvollziehen. *g*

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 03:29 pm (UTC)

Normalerweise arbeite ich nicht mit PS, aber da jetzt schon mehrere nach einer .psd Datei gefragt haben, war ich so frei und hab eine gemacht.*gg* => Download (vielleicht hast sie ja eh auch schon im FF gesehen ;))

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ele_309 on March 19th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)

Yay danke, ich habs noch nicht gesehen :) Bist ein Schatz. Ich werd mal reinschauen.

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 05:42 pm (UTC)

Bitte, bitte, gern geschehen!=)

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ele_309 on March 19th, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)

Ich hätte da noch ne Frage: Hab grad gemerkt, dass ich mir das gleiche Layout wie du rausgesucht hab *g* Hast du eine Ahnung wie ich die Lücke zwischen meinem Header und LJ wegkriege? Hab schon einiges probiert, aber irgendwie funktionierts nicht. Und dann würd ich gern noch wissen wie du das Bild bei current wallpaper eingebaut hast, einfach mit einem thumbnail code?

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lucky_cloudy on March 19th, 2008 05:51 pm (UTC)

Tja, keine Ahnung, was du da falsch gemacht haben könntest. Ich hab mir jetzt den Originalcode und meinen Code angesehen, um zu schauen ob ich da was geändert hab, hab aber nicht wirklich was gefunden.*grübel* Hast du die Headerhöhe richtig eingegeben?

Das mit der Sidebar hast du ja inzwischen selbst rausgefunden, wie ich sehe.

Und, achja, bei "Feetback" hast du dich vertippt.;)

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ele_309 on March 19th, 2008 06:23 pm (UTC)

ja hab ich *g*

und ich hatte tatsächlich die falsche Headerhöhe eingegeben *schäm*

Danke fürs Nachschauen. :)

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jester_and_jane on March 22nd, 2008 01:53 am (UTC)

Lauren is so gorgeous all the time. I just love your layout :D And your tutorials! I'm totally memming this and using on some new Lauren pics I found. Also, I tend to put my favorite tutorial makers in my creds :)

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lucky_cloudy on March 22nd, 2008 06:04 pm (UTC)

Thanks for your compliments!*blushes*
I'm glad you like it.=) Have fun trying it!

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dnies7 on April 12th, 2008 02:23 pm (UTC)

This is what I get for never being on livejournal. I hadn't even seen this entry yet. *ashamed* But thank you soooo much for making the tutorial! I think I can do it in photoshop as well :) I'll definately try it tomorrow :) Thanks again for making this :)

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lucky_cloudy on April 15th, 2008 10:18 am (UTC)

You're welcome!
I somehow assumed that you haven't seen the entry 'cause you didn't reply.=) But it's no problem, I hope you can use it anyway.

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lahmacun on April 15th, 2008 05:29 pm (UTC)

wow, das war ja super =)
ich bin erst neu in gimp und kenne mich gar nicht aus, das ist das erste tutorial das ich verfolgt hab und das hab ich dabei bekommen =)

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/371/jjheaderlmcnsevej2.jpg

ist zwar lang nicht so gut wie deins, aber es geht einigermaßen :)

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lucky_cloudy on April 15th, 2008 07:53 pm (UTC)

Also, ich finde, dass es dir sehr gut gelungen ist.=)

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mrsecholls on February 3rd, 2009 06:59 pm (UTC)

thks!!!
really great tut! ^^

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lucky_cloudy on February 6th, 2009 02:44 pm (UTC)

You're welcome. Enjoy trying it!=)

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hameron_addict on February 5th, 2009 03:48 pm (UTC)

Wow, geniales Tutorial! Hab mich schon gefragt wie man sowas mit Gimp hinbekommt. Muss ich dann gleich mal ausprobieren ;)
Danke!

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lucky_cloudy on February 6th, 2009 02:45 pm (UTC)

Bitte, bitte. Ich hoffe, es kommt was Gutes dabei raus.:D

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