Getting Custom Brushes

A lot of the little effects that make up a great image are a pain to do and can be very
repetitive. Some of this can be avoided by either A. Making your own brush to do it
or B. Getting a free pre-made brush from the internet. This is what I will be showing
you how to do.

Step 1. Find a website with GIMP brushes such as http://www.brushdirectory.com/gimp/

Step 2. Find a brush pack you want to install and download it to your desktop

GIMP will use Photoshop brushes!

Step 3. Open gimps Brush folder, ussualy it can be found in C:\Users\myusername\.gimp-2.6\brushes

Step 4. Open GIMP!

Making Flames

Hello, my name is SonicCore, making the second tutorial for Leaning Gimp :)

Well, we will be making simple flames by using a small/medium brush and the blend tool. You don't have to have that much knowledge on Gimp to do this.

So, open up a blank template and draw a black line at the bottom with the paint tool.

Then, select an orange color. You may use the one in the picture if you want.

Then draw over the black line leaving a little bit of the black showing.

Then do this one more time with a lighter orange.

Then grab the smudge tool.

Start pulling up from the bottom to get this effect. Go slightly curved for better results.

Add some text and other effects and your done :D

Thanks for checking out this tutorial. Have fun destroying things with fire!

--SonicCore--

Creating a brushed metal background

For this tutorial I will show you a simple way I learned to create a brushed metal type look.



Step 1. Create a new image of any size.

Step 2. Go to the tab on the top labeled "Filters" and go down the drop down menu and find "Render" then "Clouds" and then click plasma.

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Step 3. Once the Plasma options come up there will be a slider labeled turbulence, take it and slide it all the way to the right and then press ok.

Step 4. Your next step is to go up to the Colors tab on the top of your screen and click the Desaturate option when it drops down.

Your image should now look something like this.

Step 5. Now you need to go up to the top tab Filters and hover over over Blur and then select Motion Blur

Step 6. Set your Length to the maximum and your angle to 90 and hit ok.

and after all that you should have a pretty cool Brushed Metal image to work with that looks like this

Learning GIMP

Welcome to Learning GIMP. I decided to create this website after hearing things like "I use Paint.net because GIMP is to complicated". This will be a website where I will try to either regularly post tutorials on doing things in GIMP or links to incredibly helpful website. GIMP is an incredible tool and I would like everyone to be able to use it! My guides will use simple terms that you don't need a pro to understand.