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By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:35:52 +0000

OK I am starting to get it….I guess it doesn’t work to well for skin…..How would i do this and just get the hair part…..say i wanted to mask the hair and then colorize it? as you explain in http://blackmoondev.com/fantasy-illustration-in-gimp-tutorial/

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:07:35 +0000

I am lost too…..I even get the half transparent image. I have watched the video over and over….

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Best 35+ GIMP Tutorials | X Design Blog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:26:18 +0000

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By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:31:55 +0000

I have been trying to work this out for several hours, determined. But no luck. I’ve been working with the video – the one with the woman. I don’t see how you get the black and white on the first layer. I don’t know what to do with the cloned layer. I wasn’t getting a floating layer. etc. I can usually chew my way through other tutorials, but this one has me all choked up. I’ll be looking forward to your revised tut, because the process is intriguing.

Thanks for all your effort.

By: liberace

liberace — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:18:40 +0000

Wonderful solution and I really like this, because it doesnt need so much steps. But please forgive me, even with the additional info I can’t work it out, Perhaps because Ive not enough experience with Gimp. I tried the video, but its blurry and different from what is written here.
If you have time pls make a real step by step instruction that would be very nice, showing all the steps and choosen options. For example “add a layer mask”, what kind of mask when there are 7 options to choose from; and how to select the layer mask, when you want to copy the black and white to it? How to get the new background in and how to save?
Go on with the good work!

By: huska

huska — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:43:33 +0000

Great tutorial, makes me wonder why I didn`t think about it myself :) I have only small suggestion which can in some cases save a bit of work. When converting to BW I prefer to use Channel Mixer (Colors->Components->Channel Mixer) instead of Desaturation. By choosing Monochrome option and fooling around with the sliders it is quite easy to get good contrast at the places where u need it. But as I said at the beginning, great tutorial.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:11:21 +0000

@machatesgimp
Actually – I’m working on the new version for this tutorial. I hope it’ll be easier to understand and anwser your questions.