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ok so sure you can go look and copy paste and all the pics in there...but i am lazy, so i took rock pics from pixabay and turned into a brush, because then i can just size the brush and get randomized rocs pressing around the maps ? i will make more for mountains and waters later... rocks.gih this is for gimp, so need to be installed in the gimp brush folder so its 7 types of rocks in this brush, because its randomized i had to click a few times to get all of them to pop out
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Ok there a fair few who are getting into DnD and may want to make character pictures Let's be realistic though, the Chance off finding pictures in free sites like pixabay that is exactly representative in features of your character is not that likely always. So post here what you need to do to fix features of your char, it helps if you found a base picture you want to base yourself off. Here are some examples i made: ok original, and croped and edited version for my dragonborn character, here i altered skin and eyecolor and the two elf pics i used go make my Warlock Eladrin Elf, here i in addition to redress the char also colored the hair, i did not feel like doing the skin as i was tired... as you will see on all of these they are not the most advanced edits due to my arms being busted. but i can dictate text so should be able to walk you through process as long as i dont do the full alteration thingy for pics, but just simply illustrate roughly how to use the tools, and you all will have to do the finetweaking yourself with small brushes and zoomed in to do detail work and make it look pretty ?
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No sorry to those who think they would see a non pg-13 picture in here, i am merely showing the technique cause i know many picture sources have many good pics thats non pg-13 if you verify you are adult/want to see adult content and there is no reason to despair if you stumble upon one that you for the face or consept or hand position want to use it. Just dress it, and this tutorial will show the simplest way to do so in my mind (of course you can find a picture with a person with similar position that has clothes and edit on those close on your pic, but sometimes finding that is hard, or the lightsetting is wrong so it wouldnt look good or..or..) and we will be practising on this picture so this tutorial i am going to assume you know the basics if not look into the basic tutorial step 1 is duplicate the layer step 2 in this case because i was lazy and copied it in instead of downloading and opening it this is the tool used, i hold it over the black field i want to get rid, click and hit the deletebuton on my keyboard then i use one of the other cut tools and click outside the picture to get rid of the marking of the dragon, one because if not it will only edit within the marking which in this case is not an issue, but two because it anoys me with the flashing line step 3 i colorize it in the color i want for the clothing now the next thing i do is use eraser to remove the parts that wont be made into clothes next you use varying techniques like filters, smudge and the like to make this more fabric like to open the menu in the above picture choose the filter menu and choose blur then median blur, and you can play with the radius, pecenetile and such till your happy with result now i zoom in and basically go over with the smudgetool to make it a softer fabric look too it, but this i do with a smaller brush for controll, i want to blur it with making fabric fold effects and keep shading around where the body would naturaly poke more into the fabric...so slowly bit by bit on smaller areas you see here how i use the lighter scales and sort of move them in the tradjectory of shaping along the natural shouldercurve of the body rather then say right up or to the side (illustrates bellow) however i say this is easier as editing on clothes, is because adapting clothes light shape and size wise is so hard to make good looking without spending even more time, or luck out on finding a really compatable picture now after working that a bit you got to remember you also will downscale it so not all details will show as well however now even downscaled because this one didnt have any natural decorational pieces that i could make part of its clothes, meaning you do not have to make an end to the clothing cause things like say boots and the like do (if they have some clothes just litle and you want a dress you can meld into those clothes to make dresstops and the like) anyway in this i want to make edges, so i use eraser brush with hard edge to go and sharpen them up first now you will see i temporary made a white background its just to see better next i duplicate layer and set it to addition mode, then go to layers, trancparency, alpha to selection now i go to select and shrink say 2-3 pixels once it shrink i hit delete on keyboard then deactivate the selection with cutting tool like earlier, and go over with eraser to remove edges i dont want and this is the finished product downscaled as i would for a sig compared to original it now got a shirt, suit, pj whatever you want to call it obviously playing with the filters and effects you can make different fabric looks and the like, it again just depends on how much time you want to put into it, but the simple way is to just make thightsiting clothes like thights and tops.
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ok I just found thisso here's the link https://www.deviantart.com/liithagaidar/journal/Light-effect-sig-317503354 I have not looked through itif there's questionsif anything isn't clear this old onejust post them here and I will look through them and try to clarify it later
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Ok of course you can layer up and make amazing glow effects with layering but lets get to the basics and more simple glow stuff this is the stuff when i want to make simpler stuff glow and its either 1. use blur 2. use skreen, addition or similar mode in layers 3. a combination of the two ok here i got a black background and i got text i want to make glowing in a layer afront of it now i am going to make a layer between my name layer and my background now it looks like this aka my text has been selected i head into select menu and in this case set it too 3 pixel, then make my empty layer my active layer i go to edit and fill it with my selected color now because the color i want to glow is fairly light, you can see it disapears a bit in the light color, so for that reason i go to select menu, shrink 2 and choose a color slightly darker then my text to fill the new selected inner field with now i use the cut tool (i am sure there is a better way for this but this the simplest way i found to deactivate a selection) and click utside the frame now i go to filters, blur and use gausian blur on this layer to me this not good enough so i duplicate layer and set it to addition and half optimacy now the thiner the line and if its in medium to dark range i find this works a lot better then with light colors most of the time, with them you likely want to layer more and work on shading out and in and all... example and in this one the bluur layer only have one color not two like the last one, and there is no layer on top of the text either Framing now of course you can find beautifull frames in say pixabay you can just put your picture in, there is also an framing tool in the filters and artistic menu or was it decoration but basic gist there is nothing hindering you making your own frames, either by use of cuting tool, shrink and grow feature in the select menu or by use of eraser and different brushes - and combine this of course with any number of other tools and effects will cover a few here ok first and very simple one i have a picture, i duplicate the layer, i colorize it, i go to select and choose all, then i go back to select and here i shrunk by 25 now i delete the new selection and voila now this same version can be used to fill say one color, shrink some more, fill another color, and shrink again fill another color you can of course blur those layer lines you see you can even use another picture, patern or something and do this with you could play with it and do the different frame colors in different layers and make them more transparent in some layers then others and so on and forth ok now another way to do this is create a new layer on top of your picture and simple use the airbrush tool, the pencil, the paintbrush or the eraser to make a new frame in the edge by creating some of the brushes with form now i figure you see the paintbrush and pencil and all, but eraser? yes simple make a picture the layer above with say a pattern, use a big eraser and remove it completely, then use anti erase to take back parts of it
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Ok going to finish this over the weekend, it will be in several sittings likely. I will also combine it with geting starting on stuff for the halloween auction 1. so this first post will be basically how to do the same as what i covered in the powerpoint sig making tutorial 2. the second post i will get into how to use layering to create more effects both layer specific effects and transparancy 3. this post i will get into the logo option for making text and how to make glowing balls yourself by use of filters as its two things you probably will want to know early on for niftyness and since many likely will want to display channeling in sigs ok so i normally start by identifying my background ok so for those who dont have gimp you can find it here https://www.gimp.org/ from file you choose new, and then right away you can set the size settings you want as you see i done here now i use ctrl + v to paste the picture in, alternately you can go to the edit menu and choose paste once you got it in it will look like this, do note where i circled where you can change menu tabs the little arrow slightly to the right of my circle will allow you to add more tabs or remove them the paperstack is layers which we will get more into later, but for now at the botom of this menu is this line with the circled button the one you want to hit next alternately to avoid this is saving pictures and open them through file and choosing open as layer then you can basically drag it around in there, i draged it so i can see the moon in the corner (just click and drag while you hold the left mousebutton in) so found a picture in the vector section to use as my character, the same apply here you now actually want to use file open as layer or gimp will posible put on a black background you dont want there, since the whole point of these vectors are transparent backgrounds now i want to resize it in the program and i marked the button for that you now get this up now if this chain is open, click it so it close, now you can change the pixel to prosentage but the easiest is just leave it and go just drag the picture smaller like you do in word and other programs and then go back and click scale once you got it to the size you want oh and pay attention to your mouse cursor, if you go over the picture you will see it will change when its on and off, so when you want to click down to resize or move, make sure the symbol changed to indicate your actually over that picture. Also move tool button indicated in the next picture now i want to insert some magic there, and i found this now i want to look closer at it to do an erasing over the most forward hand so it looks like the lightning comes in between his hands, this you find at the botom line of gimp now we got too choose the eraser, and set the tab too the tool option and you can see i got a circle with faded edges so it will hard erase in the midle and be more and more transparent towards the edges of the eraser, which will make a more blended look next you probably want a handle on and then you use the text button and you can adjust font and size and color in the tab for tool options and you can move it around the sig after making it and adjust as wanted and voila now when you save a sig you want to save as xcf file as this is the editable version, and export to a png or jpg which is what you can upload here
