In this Gimp Workshop we are going to create a magical fantasy image.
The download link for the images is in the video description.
Go to file, click open, search for the image of the waterfall and open it.
Go to image and hit scale image.
Fill in 4288 as the width, hit the tab key and then
the enter key to unlock the chain at the width and height.
Hit the tab key again and now fill in 2848 as the height.
Then click the scale button.
Click on the flip tool in the toolbox.
Then click in the image to flip the image horizontally.
Now we go to colors, and brightness and contrast.
Increase the brightness to 110, and click okay.
Back to the menu bar and now to filters, blur and gaussian blur.
Make the blur radius 15, and click okay.
Go again to file, and now to open as layers.
Find and open the image of the aqueduct.
Right click on the layer and hit add alpha channel to enable transparency.
We will remove the sky.
Go to the toolbox and make the select by color tool active.
Click on the second button at the mode, which is add to current selection.
Now we click on several different places in the blue of the sky,
until all the blue is selected.
Then we go to select and click on grow.
We grow our selection with 2 pixels and click okay.
Again to select and now to feather.
We feather the selection with 5 pixels, so we can just click okay.
Go to edit and click on clear, so the sky is deleted and these areas are now transparent.
Click on select in the menu bar and hit none to deselect the selection.
Click on colors and then on brightness and contrast again.
This time we reduce the brightness to minus 90.
Click okay.
Go to the toolbox and click on the scale tool.
Click in the image and then click on the eye of the aqueduct layer, to make it invisible.
Now we click on the chain in the dialog box,
to lock the aspect ratio when we scale the image.
Then we scale the image, more or less like so.
When we click and drag the center circle, we can move the whole aqueduct image.
When its to our liking, we click scale.
Then we make the layer visible again.
Now we activate the perspective tool and we click in the image.
We move the left side of the aqueduct a bit downwards, like so.
Try to keep the pillars vertical.
When we feel its okay, we click transform.
Right click on the aqueduct layer and hit layer to image size.
Time now to bring the image of the warrior in our project.
Go to file again, click open as layers and now open the image of the warrior.
Hit the green downwards pointing arrow in the layers panel,
to lower this layer one place in the layers stack.
Click on the scale tool.
In the tool options we change the guides to no guides.
Then click in the image.
Scale and reposition the warrior like so.
Click scale.
We will now open the image of the wolf.
Make the top layer active, so when we open the image of the wolf,
it will be placed at the top of the layers stack.
Back to file now, open as layers and open the image of the wolf.
When there is no preview visible, we can click on it to make one.
Right click on the layer and click add alpha channel.
This image is bigger then our project, so we go to image,
and here we click on fit canvas to layers.
Now we can see the whole wolf image.
Go to the toolbox and activate the free select tool.
We are going to remove the background.
Zoom in and or out, by press and hold the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel.
We can just click point after point or click, hold the mouse, and draw a selection line.
Whith the backspace key, we can remove one or more previous made points.
When we press and hold the space bar, the cursor changes into the move tool and we can,
by moving the mouse without clicking, move the image.
Let go of the spacebar to have the free select tool again.
Make sure to stay just a little bit inside the boundarys of the wolf.
Include the rocks in the corner, like shown in the video.
For the sake of the tutorial we will go fast forward now.
When we are back at the first point,
we place the last point over the first point,
and when this turns yellow,
we can click to close our selection.
Now we click on the third button of the mode in the tool options which is,
subtract from current selection.
Then we select the two areas between the wolf and the rocks.
Now go to the menu bar, click on view, zoom and fit image in window.
Then click on select and hit invert.
Again to select and now to feather.
We will feather the selection with 5 pixels, so we can just click okay.
Now to edit and click on clear, to remove the background.
Back to select and now click none, to deselect.
Go to the toolbox and activate the smudge tool.
Choose brush bristless 02 and make the size about 70.
We are going to smudge the fur of the wolf, like shown in the video.
Use the Ctrl key and the mouse wheel to zoom in or out again,
and the space bar and the mouse to move the image.
While we are doing this, we have to follow the flow of the hair,
and also pay attention to the length of the smudged hair.
We can change the rate to make longer or shorter hairs.
Here we can hit Ctrl+Z to undo the previous actions.
We will again go fast forward now.
When its to our liking, we press Ctrl+shift+J to maximize the image again.
Hit Shift+T to make the scale tool active and the dialog box visible.
Make the wolf layer invisible.
Scale the image.
Reposition it in a way that the bottom lines up with the bottom of the image, like so.
Click scale.
Then make the layer visible again.
Right click on the waterfall layer and hit alpha to selection.
Then go to the menu bar, click on image and on crop to selection.
And we are back to the original image size.
Press Ctrl+Shift+A to deselect.
Select the wolf layer.
Go to the toolbox and activate the dodge burn tool.
Make the opacity about 70.
Choose brush hardness 25, and make the size about 50.
Check the option apply jitter and make the amount 1 comma 50.
Click on the option highlights.
Reduce the exposure to about 20.
Now we will make the edges at the front of the wolf lighter, like so,
to give the impression of backlight.
Use Ctrl+Z too undo when you have gone to far.
When this is done, we press Ctrl+Shift+J again to fit the image in the window.
Go to colors and curves and adjust the color curves like so.
Click okay.
Now press Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer.
Name it fog, and click okay.
Click the green downwards pointing arrow at the bottom of the layers stack once,
so the fog layer is placed above the aqueduct layer.
Now we go to filters, render, clouds and click on solid noise.
Pull out the dialog box a bit.
We can click several times on the new seed button until we have a pattern that we like.
Make the detail 15, which is the maximum.
Click okay.
Now we go to the mode and change it from normal to lighten only,
so we will only see the lighter pixels.
Go to filters, noise and RGB noise.
Uncheck independent RGB and make the red, green and blue 80,
by clicking several times on one of the slider liners.
Then hit okay.
Activate the wolf layer.
Go to file again, click open as layers and open the image of the woman.
Press Shift+T again to open the scale tool dialog box.
Move, by click and drag in the center circle, the image to the left bottom corner.
Then scale it, like so.
Then hit the scale button.
Move the woman layer, by click and drag, two steps down in the layers stack,
so it is positioned just below the fog layer.
Click on the fog layer to make it active.
Activate the eraser tool.
We should still have brush hardness 25 but we make the size about 800.
Now erase some parts of the fog, like shown in the video.
Remove a little, but not all the fog at the warrior, and also at the woman.
We will now add the rainbow.
Click first on the wolf layer and then press Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer.
Name it rainbow and click okay,
so it is placed t the top of the layers stack.
Make the blend tool active.
At the gradient we scroll down and choose the radial rainbow.
Click on the reverse button.
Make the shape radial, and the offset about 75.
Now we draw a line from the left bottom corner of the image to the center of the image,
and then just a little bit further.
Make sure the rainbow goes through the opening of the aqueduct, like so.
With Ctrl+Z we can undo it and try again.
Then we go to filters, blur and hit gaussian blur.
Here we make the blur radius 50, and click okay.
Drag and drop the rainbow layer downwards to just above the waterfall layer.
We make the opacity about 20 or whatever we think looks good.
Make the eraser tool active.
The size should still be about 800 and the brush should still be hardness 25.
Now we can erase the bottom of the rainbow, like so.
And there we have it, our own magical fantasy image.
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