My first Tutorial!

[ilia_valerius]

Coloring tutorial for the GIMP! Translatable, I hope.

Make this icon:

Comments

[mermaid_pearls]

this is great, I've been looking for this kind of tutorial! :) Adding to memories!

[ilia_valerius]

oh, awesome! :) I'm so glad it's helpful. yay!

[purpleseahorse]

i used photoshop cs2 and it was fairly translatable.
here's my result:

[ilia_valerius]

oh, that's lovely! good job. I'm glad it translates. :)

[valliegurl]

very cool! ^_^ memming!

[ilia_valerius]

thank you! :)
have fun with it!

[pernille_is_me]

where and how do I 'set to screen'.. i can figure out everything else.. I think.. but this set to screen that everyone uses.. I have no idea what it means.. can you help!?

[ilia_valerius]

oh yeah, no problem! :) I remember when I figured this out, I was so glad. Before that, I had no clue what everyone was talking about, and it always frustrated me. Here's what you do:

We're changing the 'mode' of a layer. Make sure you've got the layer you want to change selected; go to the 'Mode' drop down menu in your 'layers' dialog (if you don't usually use this dialog, I highly recommend it :). to open: Dialogs>Layers), then all you do is select 'Screen', or 'Soft Light', or whatever! :)

This is such an awesome tool - I almost always start out an icon by duplicating the base, set to screen, then dup. again - set to soft light, maybe another screen, maybe a 'multiply', etc etc. And there are a lot of things you can do with color layers set to different modes!

Sorry if this explanation is really rudimentary! I don't know how much info you wanted, so I went pretty basic.

Does it make sense? Can I make it clearer?

here are some tutorials that really helped me (especially check out that first one, it's awesome):
Tutorial 1

[ilia_valerius]

oops! those last two tutorials are the same thing... here's the one I really meant for the third one. :)

[pernille_is_me]

Thank you so much! :) you are a sweetheart!

oh yes Ive been so sosososo frustrated!.. urg and I downloaded the program in Danish instead of English.. which just makes everything even more difficult! and the translations in the Danish program has absolutly nothing to do with the orgrinal English text so Im always on a search.. LOL..gee.. but thank you so much for you help!
*hugs*

[lovely_lindiana]

i really like that coloring.
+mems, thanks for sharing
:)

[ilia_valerius]

thank you! :) I'm glad you like.

and you're very welcome! :)