Cover art tutorial for fanmixes

[cosmicviolet]

After my last mix, eggblue wanted to know how I made the cover art. So here's a little tutorial. Sorry it took me so long to finally do this. Hopefully, some people will find it interesting....

UPDATE NOVEMBER 2014: I saw this post linked to recently, and I thought I should point out that this tutorial is now quite dated. The newest version of Gimp (2.8

Comments

[sin_fuego]

thank you for this tutorial! It's really difficult to find fanmix tutorials for gimp so this was heaven-sent! one question though, I somehow got rid of my list of layers window. I am a total newbie to gimp & can't figure out how to get it back...could you please help?

edit: figured it out! ctrl + l did the trick.

[cosmicviolet]

Thanks, glad you found it helpful! If you need any further help, let me know. :)

[kimmy4eytj]

I used this tutorial today to make this icon. I was having trouble with cropping and this helped my greatly. The only thing I didn't manage was the text that I wanted to apply. I've saved this to my memories because i know I'll need to use this again. You did an great job.