Tutorial: Crazy Ions

Crazy Ions — Result

Motivation / Intro

This tutorial shows again which great things you can do easily with The Gimp. Also it is my 2nd Tutorial. Have a good time with it !

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This work by Christian is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported terms.
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  1. 1

    Create a new file with the size 500×500 Px (size doesn’t matter but it has to be square)

  2. 2

    Choose any color gradient and use the same parameters as in the image below.

  3. 3

    Create the gradient (click on a point in the image, hold and drag a line)

  4. 4

    click the right mousebutton on your image, then select Filters>Artistic>Cubism and use the same parameters as in the image below

  5. 5

    click the right mousebutton on your image, then select filters>blur>Motion blur and use the same parameters as in the image

  6. 6

    click the right mousebutton on your image, then elect filters>blur>Gaussian Blur strength 3

  7. 7

    click the right mousebutton on your image, then elect filters>Edge-Detect>Edges and use the same parameters as in the image

  8. 8

    For simulating a light depth click the right mousebutton, then select filters>Blur>Motion blur> and use the same parameters as in the image

  9. 9

    We’re done ;) I hope you like the result!

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wade
over 2 years ago

Thanks for the Tutorial! It was lots of fun when I tried it.

Mena
over 3 years ago

This tutorial was very easy to follow, thanks! By the way, it looks really good mapped into a sphere.

Beaniebaby2468 Beaniebaby2468 member for about 4 years
almost 4 years ago

Very nice tutorial! Also, HOW DO YOU CEATE A TUTORIAL? I hve been trying forever, and can't figure it out lol... Just a random thing i made...

exn exn member for over 4 years
over 4 years ago

oh nice effect. thanks

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