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|'''Narration'''
 
|'''Narration'''
 
  
 
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|Welcome to the spoken tutorial of Meet The GIMP.  
 
|Welcome to the spoken tutorial of Meet The GIMP.  
  
 
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|My Name is Rolf Steinort and i am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.  
 
|My Name is Rolf Steinort and i am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.  
  
 
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|In the beginning I will do something that I always forget to mention.
 
|In the beginning I will do something that I always forget to mention.
  
 
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| I always forget to save the image before doing anything to it.  
 
| I always forget to save the image before doing anything to it.  
  
 
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|So I go to File, Save as and save this as  
 
|So I go to File, Save as and save this as  
  
 
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| comic.xcf  
 
| comic.xcf  
 
  
 
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| ‘xcf’ is the Gimp native file format and it keeps all the layers information in the file.  
 
| ‘xcf’ is the Gimp native file format and it keeps all the layers information in the file.  
  
 
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| Never save anything in Gimp as JPEG or tif or so, if you want to work further with it.  
 
| Never save anything in Gimp as JPEG or tif or so, if you want to work further with it.  
  
 
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| You can export from there to every format you want to but for anything you want to do further work with, use XCF.  
 
| You can export from there to every format you want to but for anything you want to do further work with, use XCF.  
 
  
 
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|So what to do? 1st thing  I have to clear up this image a bit.  
 
|So what to do? 1st thing  I have to clear up this image a bit.  
  
 
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|There are two problems here, 1st the guy behind me.  
 
|There are two problems here, 1st the guy behind me.  
  
 
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|And 2nd is this clutter below here.  
 
|And 2nd is this clutter below here.  
  
 
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|This statue here is very well placed and I think, it is one of the corner points of this image.  
 
|This statue here is very well placed and I think, it is one of the corner points of this image.  
  
 
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|So let me 1st take away this stuff here.   
 
|So let me 1st take away this stuff here.   
  
 
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|So I zoom into the image and select the Pen Tool.   
 
|So I zoom into the image and select the Pen Tool.   
  
 
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|This is best done by Cloning Tool and I don’t have to work very precise here because all this little stuff will vanish in the final image.
 
|This is best done by Cloning Tool and I don’t have to work very precise here because all this little stuff will vanish in the final image.
  
 
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|So i select the clone tool and change the size of the pen.  
 
|So i select the clone tool and change the size of the pen.  
  
 
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| Now I press Ctrl and Click to get a starting point and now I simply start to paint.  
 
| Now I press Ctrl and Click to get a starting point and now I simply start to paint.  
  
 
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| But before starting that i change the Overlay mode to Normal mode, opacity to 100 and now let’s start painting.   
 
| But before starting that i change the Overlay mode to Normal mode, opacity to 100 and now let’s start painting.   
 
  
 
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|Image get's a little bit cloudy so i select another brush to paint.  
 
|Image get's a little bit cloudy so i select another brush to paint.  
  
 
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|And now I go here to the border and paint.  
 
|And now I go here to the border and paint.  
  
 
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|So the guy is gone.  
 
|So the guy is gone.  
  
 
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|That leaves the clutter here.   
 
|That leaves the clutter here.   
 
  
 
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|I want to keep the flower pot here but this stuff here has to go.  
 
|I want to keep the flower pot here but this stuff here has to go.  
  
 
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|I will take care of this border of the flower pot in a moment.  
 
|I will take care of this border of the flower pot in a moment.  
  
 
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|If I would keep this image in this way, you would see the traces of cloning but they will vanish when I switch on the comic mode.  
 
|If I would keep this image in this way, you would see the traces of cloning but they will vanish when I switch on the comic mode.  
  
 
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|So now lets do a bit about the flower pot here.   
 
|So now lets do a bit about the flower pot here.   
  
 
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|I think i should clone from this point.  
 
|I think i should clone from this point.  
  
 
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|It doesn't look very convincing in this zoom step but I think it will work.  
 
|It doesn't look very convincing in this zoom step but I think it will work.  
  
 
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|The comic image basically consist of three parts.  
 
|The comic image basically consist of three parts.  
 
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|1st there are the black patches or dark patches with no colours, which gives structure to the image.  
 
|1st there are the black patches or dark patches with no colours, which gives structure to the image.  
  
 
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|Then there are the lines which defines forms and items in the image.  
 
|Then there are the lines which defines forms and items in the image.  
  
 
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|And then there is colour and we will start as in the tutorial with the patches.  
 
|And then there is colour and we will start as in the tutorial with the patches.  
  
 
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| And for that  
 
| And for that  
  
 
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| I double this layer and call it ink.   
 
| I double this layer and call it ink.   
 
   
 
   
 
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|I select the Threshold tool and click into the image and pull the info window into the image.
 
|I select the Threshold tool and click into the image and pull the info window into the image.
 
  
 
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|You see here the image is black and white.  
 
|You see here the image is black and white.  
  
 
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| This tool divides the image into black and white.  
 
| This tool divides the image into black and white.  
  
 
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|   If the pixel is lighter than at the moment 82 then the combination of average value of red, green and blue is white.
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|If the pixel is lighter than at the moment 82 then the combination of average value of red, green and blue is white.
  
 
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| And if the level is below 82 it becomes black.   
 
| And if the level is below 82 it becomes black.   
 
  
 
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|Now we face the 1st problem here.   
 
|Now we face the 1st problem here.   
  
 
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|When I draw this slider around the effect is very dark.  
 
|When I draw this slider around the effect is very dark.  
 
  
 
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|This value here 129 would be nice for the left part of my face, the shoulder and for the statue.  
 
|This value here 129 would be nice for the left part of my face, the shoulder and for the statue.  
  
 
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|This would be nice for the eyes here  
 
|This would be nice for the eyes here  
  
 
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|And this for other eye.  
 
|And this for other eye.  
  
 
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|Now i have to use different ink layer for this image.
 
|Now i have to use different ink layer for this image.
  
 
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|So lets start from the lighter side, like this one here and go back into the image to 100%.
 
|So lets start from the lighter side, like this one here and go back into the image to 100%.
  
 
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| I double this here and select the threshold tool and pull this slider down.  
 
| I double this here and select the threshold tool and pull this slider down.  
  
 
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|  But before that i have to make the top layer invisible.  
 
|  But before that i have to make the top layer invisible.  
  
 
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|I think this value is good for this part of the face.   
 
|I think this value is good for this part of the face.   
  
 
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| I make a copy of this layer and make it visible and now I am working on this layer.  
 
| I make a copy of this layer and make it visible and now I am working on this layer.  
  
 
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| I have to look for the middle terms here.
 
| I have to look for the middle terms here.
  
 
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|  This part of the face, I think this works quite good so i look around in the image.
 
|  This part of the face, I think this works quite good so i look around in the image.
 
  
 
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|The statue is fine too.
 
|The statue is fine too.
  
 
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| This image has a good definition here and near my hand the line is invisible and that is called optical illusion
 
| This image has a good definition here and near my hand the line is invisible and that is called optical illusion
 
  
 
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| I think this is fine and it should be in the image.  
 
| I think this is fine and it should be in the image.  
 
  
 
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|Now i select the Threshold tool make the line here visible and look at the bright parts to get little bit of definition So i slide this up.   
 
|Now i select the Threshold tool make the line here visible and look at the bright parts to get little bit of definition So i slide this up.   
  
 
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|This looks better.   
 
|This looks better.   
  
 
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|Now I have 3 copies of my ink layer.  
 
|Now I have 3 copies of my ink layer.  
  
 
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|1st is ink light .  
 
|1st is ink light .  
  
 
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|Top layer is ink dark.   
 
|Top layer is ink dark.   
  
 
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|And lets name the middle layer simply ink.   
 
|And lets name the middle layer simply ink.   
  
 
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|Now lets look at the 3 layers and decide which one is to use mostly.   
 
|Now lets look at the 3 layers and decide which one is to use mostly.   
  
 
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|I think ink layer is a good base, because this is too light and this is too dark.   
 
|I think ink layer is a good base, because this is too light and this is too dark.   
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|So I put this layer in the bottom and I add a layer mask to the dark layer and the light layer.
 
|So I put this layer in the bottom and I add a layer mask to the dark layer and the light layer.
  
 
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| I add a layer mask in black which is fully transparent.
 
| I add a layer mask in black which is fully transparent.
  
 
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|So everything here gets invisible.   
 
|So everything here gets invisible.   
 
 
  
 
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| When I draw white on this layer mask of the light layer, the image will be revealed in it.
 
| When I draw white on this layer mask of the light layer, the image will be revealed in it.
  
 
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| So I select the brush tool here with normal mode and opacity 100%.  
 
| So I select the brush tool here with normal mode and opacity 100%.  
  
 
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| I think I shall use a hard brush and the pressure sensitivity should be the Size, so when I press the pen on the surface the dot will be  larger.   
 
| I think I shall use a hard brush and the pressure sensitivity should be the Size, so when I press the pen on the surface the dot will be  larger.   
  
 
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|My foreground colour is white.  
 
|My foreground colour is white.  
  
 
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| So lets start
 
| So lets start
  
 
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|I think the left part of the face should be brightened.  
 
|I think the left part of the face should be brightened.  
 
  
 
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|I press 1 to zoom into the image.  
 
|I press 1 to zoom into the image.  
  
 
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|I think this brush is too small,  so i scale this a bit up.  
 
|I think this brush is too small,  so i scale this a bit up.  
  
 
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|That looks better.  
 
|That looks better.  
  
 
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|But perhaps it is too bright.
 
|But perhaps it is too bright.
  
 
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|This has to be either black or white.  
 
|This has to be either black or white.  
  
 
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|So i switch the colours with ‘X’ key and paint this over again here.
 
|So i switch the colours with ‘X’ key and paint this over again here.
  
 
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| But i think i can leave this out here and put the next layer above that.  
 
| But i think i can leave this out here and put the next layer above that.  
 
  
 
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| Now we are more concern about the areas and about the structure, so I should forget about the lines and just look at the structure here.   
 
| Now we are more concern about the areas and about the structure, so I should forget about the lines and just look at the structure here.   
  
 
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|Simply leave it as it is.  
 
|Simply leave it as it is.  
  
 
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|I can add another layer easily and now i paint for the dark parts with the white colour.
 
|I can add another layer easily and now i paint for the dark parts with the white colour.
  
 
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| Lets see if I can reveal here a little bit.  
 
| Lets see if I can reveal here a little bit.  
  
 
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| I think this is too much.   
 
| I think this is too much.   
  
 
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|I want to make the face a bit darker.  
 
|I want to make the face a bit darker.  
  
 
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|And here also.  
 
|And here also.  
  
 
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|I think that’s too dark.  
 
|I think that’s too dark.  
  
 
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| Here there is some work still to be done but I will leave it to this here and look at it after I am done with the next step with the lines and then I can adjust here.   
 
| Here there is some work still to be done but I will leave it to this here and look at it after I am done with the next step with the lines and then I can adjust here.   
  
 
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| This has to be brightened up.
 
| This has to be brightened up.
  
 
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|So we'll look at the edit there.  
 
|So we'll look at the edit there.  
  
 
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|In this step i have to add some lines and this can be done by doubling the background layer and putting it on top and naming it lines.  
 
|In this step i have to add some lines and this can be done by doubling the background layer and putting it on top and naming it lines.  
  
 
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|The lines are the edges between different colours.  
 
|The lines are the edges between different colours.  
  
 
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|So i go to Filters, then we have edge-detect, and here I have difference of Gaussians edge detect.   
 
|So i go to Filters, then we have edge-detect, and here I have difference of Gaussians edge detect.   
 
  
 
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|The relevant slider is the Radius and if you decrease the number the lines get finer.  
 
|The relevant slider is the Radius and if you decrease the number the lines get finer.  
  
 
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|If you increase the number the lines get wider and you get more of the details in the image.  
 
|If you increase the number the lines get wider and you get more of the details in the image.  
  
 
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|I would prefer something around 10 but i can go to 30 and then decide where exactly i should stop.  
 
|I would prefer something around 10 but i can go to 30 and then decide where exactly i should stop.  
  
 
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|When i go to 30 i dont get the edges but areas and 12 would give this here.   
 
|When i go to 30 i dont get the edges but areas and 12 would give this here.   
  
 
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| 18:27
 
|And I think I will settle at 10.   
 
|And I think I will settle at 10.   
  
 
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|I set the layer mode of this layer to Multiply and for the colour rising I will later need to reduce the white in the image.  
 
|I set the layer mode of this layer to Multiply and for the colour rising I will later need to reduce the white in the image.  
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| 18:50
 
|Now lets just checkout if we have got this right upto now.  
 
|Now lets just checkout if we have got this right upto now.  
  
 
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|So I will switch the lines layer on and off and you see here there is some definition when the line layer is on.  
 
|So I will switch the lines layer on and off and you see here there is some definition when the line layer is on.  
  
 
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|And now I de-select the dark ink layer and keep the light ink layer.  
 
|And now I de-select the dark ink layer and keep the light ink layer.  
 
  
 
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|The structure that I wanted to have in with my dark ink layer is visible in the lines layer.  
 
|The structure that I wanted to have in with my dark ink layer is visible in the lines layer.  
  
 
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|So I will leave the dark ink layer switched off.   
 
|So I will leave the dark ink layer switched off.   
  
 
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| 19:42
 
|I dont think there is a need to combine these layers here.  
 
|I dont think there is a need to combine these layers here.  
  
 
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| 19:50
 
|I will leave it as it is, so that i can change something and it will be in the final image.  
 
|I will leave it as it is, so that i can change something and it will be in the final image.  
  
 
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| 20:09
 
|Next step as I said I have to reduce the white channel here, and it can be done with the levels tool and I reduce the level upto 240.  
 
|Next step as I said I have to reduce the white channel here, and it can be done with the levels tool and I reduce the level upto 240.  
  
 
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|When i switch off this layer you can see that I have a gray background and little bit of colour information in here.  
 
|When i switch off this layer you can see that I have a gray background and little bit of colour information in here.  
  
 
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| 20:40
 
|For getting the colour in the image I copy the background layer and name it Colour and put it on top and set the layer mode to Colour.  
 
|For getting the colour in the image I copy the background layer and name it Colour and put it on top and set the layer mode to Colour.  
  
 
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|But it doesnt look good so i should change the mode.  
 
|But it doesnt look good so i should change the mode.  
  
 
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| 21:07
 
|The image has got little bit of colour in here.
 
|The image has got little bit of colour in here.
  
 
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| But I want more saturation so again i make the copy of background layer and name it Saturation.  
 
| But I want more saturation so again i make the copy of background layer and name it Saturation.  
 
  
 
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| 21:24
 
|I set the layer mode to Saturation .  
 
|I set the layer mode to Saturation .  
  
 
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| 21:29
 
|I think this saturation mode already works and the effects are very good.  
 
|I think this saturation mode already works and the effects are very good.  
  
 
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| There should have been more flatness in the colour and the hand is not looking comic.
 
| There should have been more flatness in the colour and the hand is not looking comic.
  
 
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| 21:47
 
| I will look where this comes from .
 
| I will look where this comes from .
 
  
 
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| 21:51
 
| So I can now start to play with this sliders.  
 
| So I can now start to play with this sliders.  
  
 
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| Going down with saturation, gets little bit flatter, and looks more like water colours, so this is a strange effect.   
 
| Going down with saturation, gets little bit flatter, and looks more like water colours, so this is a strange effect.   
  
 
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|Now I can start to play with the layers here.   
 
|Now I can start to play with the layers here.   
  
 
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| 22:26
 
|So I switch off the lines layer and you see here that this is not the effect from the lines but from colours and saturation.
 
|So I switch off the lines layer and you see here that this is not the effect from the lines but from colours and saturation.
  
 
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| 22:39
 
|Now I can make some adjustments because i still have the layers here.  
 
|Now I can make some adjustments because i still have the layers here.  
  
 
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| 22:47
 
|I want to lighten the face, so I select my ink light layer, select a brush with white foreground colour.  
 
|I want to lighten the face, so I select my ink light layer, select a brush with white foreground colour.  
  
 
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| 23:12
 
|I zoom into the image.   
 
|I zoom into the image.   
  
 
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|Reduce the size of the brush and scale it a bit and now I start to paint the eye here.  
 
|Reduce the size of the brush and scale it a bit and now I start to paint the eye here.  
  
 
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|That's too much.  
 
|That's too much.  
  
 
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|This looks better.  
 
|This looks better.  
  
 
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|Now i paint in this part.  
 
|Now i paint in this part.  
  
 
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|This is too much.   
 
|This is too much.   
 
  
 
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|You can imagine there can be lot of modifications in here you can make in the image, by changing these areas here.  
 
|You can imagine there can be lot of modifications in here you can make in the image, by changing these areas here.  
  
 
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|This is Ok.  
 
|This is Ok.  
  
 
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|You can do a lot of changes here and i dont know if i am on the right track.  
 
|You can do a lot of changes here and i dont know if i am on the right track.  
  
 
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| But I like it upto now.  
 
| But I like it upto now.  
  
 
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| Let’s see what else we can do.
 
| Let’s see what else we can do.
  
 
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|  1st thing is we can use a different layer than the lines.
 
|  1st thing is we can use a different layer than the lines.
 
  
 
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|So I switch off the lines and I get very strange colours because now I have again a white background  
 
|So I switch off the lines and I get very strange colours because now I have again a white background  
  
 
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|So add another layer here and set it to white and use multiply mode and fill it  with 240 grey.  
 
|So add another layer here and set it to white and use multiply mode and fill it  with 240 grey.  
 
  
 
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|Now I have got nearly the same image as with my lines here.
 
|Now I have got nearly the same image as with my lines here.
  
 
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| Let me switch them on.  
 
| Let me switch them on.  
  
 
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|I have the lines information coming out but this comic effect is still there and i can look what’s better.   
 
|I have the lines information coming out but this comic effect is still there and i can look what’s better.   
 
  
 
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|Lets try some different tricks.  
 
|Lets try some different tricks.  
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|I double the colour and the saturation layer and do something with them.  
 
|I double the colour and the saturation layer and do something with them.  
  
 
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|Here I just try to get the details out of the image.  
 
|Here I just try to get the details out of the image.  
  
 
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|So go to Filters, Blur and Gaussian blur.  
 
|So go to Filters, Blur and Gaussian blur.  
  
 
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|And here I choose a value which gives me nice effect.  
 
|And here I choose a value which gives me nice effect.  
  
 
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|You see that the colours has got little bit smoother.
 
|You see that the colours has got little bit smoother.
  
 
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| So let's do this on the saturation copy also.  
 
| So let's do this on the saturation copy also.  
  
 
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| Go to Filters, Repeat Guassian Blur.  
 
| Go to Filters, Repeat Guassian Blur.  
  
 
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|And now I have really flat image with flat colours.  
 
|And now I have really flat image with flat colours.  
  
 
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|So i switch on the original colour and I get a strange effect here.   
 
|So i switch on the original colour and I get a strange effect here.   
  
 
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| Let's rename these layers as saturation blurred and the colour blurred.   
 
| Let's rename these layers as saturation blurred and the colour blurred.   
 
  
 
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|If i combine the blurred saturation with the unblurred colour , i get some colours here which looks quite a bit strange.   
 
|If i combine the blurred saturation with the unblurred colour , i get some colours here which looks quite a bit strange.   
  
 
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|I would like it, if it was not especially on the nose here.  
 
|I would like it, if it was not especially on the nose here.  
  
 
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|So switching this back on and I have this effect here.
 
|So switching this back on and I have this effect here.
  
 
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|You can imagine if you reduce the blurring you get sharpe details.  
 
|You can imagine if you reduce the blurring you get sharpe details.  
  
 
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|This is a real play ground.
 
|This is a real play ground.
  
 
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| You have a lot of possibilities here like how to do this, what to do, what to tinker with.  
 
| You have a lot of possibilities here like how to do this, what to do, what to tinker with.  
  
 
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| Its really fun to do this.     
 
| Its really fun to do this.     
  
 
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|The author of the original tutorial has done a tremendous job.  
 
|The author of the original tutorial has done a tremendous job.  
  
 
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|I am not so happy with both versions of this image.
 
|I am not so happy with both versions of this image.
  
 
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| I like the structure here and the flower, the statue and the pot here
 
| I like the structure here and the flower, the statue and the pot here
  
 
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| I don’t like all the details near the hand and in the face, this could be little bit more flat.  
 
| I don’t like all the details near the hand and in the face, this could be little bit more flat.  
  
 
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|In the blurred on I like the details in the face and near the hand but I don’t like the flower which is completely blurred away.  
 
|In the blurred on I like the details in the face and near the hand but I don’t like the flower which is completely blurred away.  
  
 
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|So now i can combine the two images and I will start with colour blurred because I like the over all appearance of this more than of the saturation blurred.  
 
|So now i can combine the two images and I will start with colour blurred because I like the over all appearance of this more than of the saturation blurred.  
  
 
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|But I switch on all the layers and add layer mask to saturation blurred and colour blurred and I add a black layer mask fully transparent.   
 
|But I switch on all the layers and add layer mask to saturation blurred and colour blurred and I add a black layer mask fully transparent.   
 
  
 
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|And now i'll start working on saturation layer mask so i select white as my foreground colour and select the paint brush here.
 
|And now i'll start working on saturation layer mask so i select white as my foreground colour and select the paint brush here.
  
 
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| Now i start painting.   
 
| Now i start painting.   
  
 
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|I just paint over the parts where I want to have little bit more flatness in the image.  
 
|I just paint over the parts where I want to have little bit more flatness in the image.  
  
 
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|This will look a bit strange because now I have the colour layer switched on.  
 
|This will look a bit strange because now I have the colour layer switched on.  
 
  
 
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|So now i select everything by pressing Shift+ctrl+A and copy it by Ctrl + C, go into the image and press Ctrl + V and click on this Floating Selection and with Ctrl + H or with the anchor layer I have my copy here.
 
|So now i select everything by pressing Shift+ctrl+A and copy it by Ctrl + C, go into the image and press Ctrl + V and click on this Floating Selection and with Ctrl + H or with the anchor layer I have my copy here.
  
 
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|So you can copy these layer mask too and I think I will leave this image here.  
 
|So you can copy these layer mask too and I think I will leave this image here.  
  
 
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|I think it’s so quite nice example and in the end i play a bit with this sliders.  
 
|I think it’s so quite nice example and in the end i play a bit with this sliders.  
  
 
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|Lets recap this.   
 
|Lets recap this.   
  
 
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|You first copy the image layer and make  an ''inked''  image with threshold tool.
 
|You first copy the image layer and make  an ''inked''  image with threshold tool.
 
  
 
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|Look for areas which you want to have black or very dark.  
 
|Look for areas which you want to have black or very dark.  
  
 
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|Then you copy the base image again and make a line layer with the edge detect filter and then you set the layer mode to multiply.  
 
|Then you copy the base image again and make a line layer with the edge detect filter and then you set the layer mode to multiply.  
  
 
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|In this layer you reduce the white to a gray about 240 with the levels tool.  
 
|In this layer you reduce the white to a gray about 240 with the levels tool.  
  
 
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|Then you copy again the base image and make a colour layer.  
 
|Then you copy again the base image and make a colour layer.  
  
 
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|Set the colour mode to colour.  
 
|Set the colour mode to colour.  
  
 
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|And finally you copy the base layer last time and make a saturation layer and here you set the layer mode to saturation and now you play with the opacity of the different layers or at some layers.
 
|And finally you copy the base layer last time and make a saturation layer and here you set the layer mode to saturation and now you play with the opacity of the different layers or at some layers.
  
 
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| Just play around. The results are well mixed but some are stunning.  
 
| Just play around. The results are well mixed but some are stunning.  
  
 
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|For more information goto http://meetthegimp.org and to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye.  
 
|For more information goto http://meetthegimp.org and to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye.  
  
 
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|This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.
 
|This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.

Revision as of 15:54, 9 July 2014

Time Narration
00:18 Welcome to the spoken tutorial of Meet The GIMP.
00:21 My Name is Rolf Steinort and i am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.
00:27 In the beginning I will do something that I always forget to mention.
00:34 I always forget to save the image before doing anything to it.
00:45 So I go to File, Save as and save this as
01:05 comic.xcf
01:12 ‘xcf’ is the Gimp native file format and it keeps all the layers information in the file.
01:22 Never save anything in Gimp as JPEG or tif or so, if you want to work further with it.
01:30 You can export from there to every format you want to but for anything you want to do further work with, use XCF.
01:45 So what to do? 1st thing I have to clear up this image a bit.
01:59 There are two problems here, 1st the guy behind me.
02:15 And 2nd is this clutter below here.
02:21 This statue here is very well placed and I think, it is one of the corner points of this image.
02:31 So let me 1st take away this stuff here.
02:36 So I zoom into the image and select the Pen Tool.
02:50 This is best done by Cloning Tool and I don’t have to work very precise here because all this little stuff will vanish in the final image.
03:05 So i select the clone tool and change the size of the pen.
03:13 Now I press Ctrl and Click to get a starting point and now I simply start to paint.
03:24 But before starting that i change the Overlay mode to Normal mode, opacity to 100 and now let’s start painting.
03:42 Image get's a little bit cloudy so i select another brush to paint.
03:57 And now I go here to the border and paint.
04:37 So the guy is gone.
04:41 That leaves the clutter here.
04:44 I want to keep the flower pot here but this stuff here has to go.
05:03 I will take care of this border of the flower pot in a moment.
05:24 If I would keep this image in this way, you would see the traces of cloning but they will vanish when I switch on the comic mode.
05:43 So now lets do a bit about the flower pot here.
06:06 I think i should clone from this point.
06:26 It doesn't look very convincing in this zoom step but I think it will work.
06:34 The comic image basically consist of three parts.
06:39 1st there are the black patches or dark patches with no colours, which gives structure to the image.
06:50 Then there are the lines which defines forms and items in the image.
06:57 And then there is colour and we will start as in the tutorial with the patches.
07:04 And for that
07:15 I double this layer and call it ink.
07:25 I select the Threshold tool and click into the image and pull the info window into the image.
07:37 You see here the image is black and white.
07:43 This tool divides the image into black and white.
07:48 If the pixel is lighter than at the moment 82 then the combination of average value of red, green and blue is white.
08:02 And if the level is below 82 it becomes black.
08:14 Now we face the 1st problem here.
08:19 When I draw this slider around the effect is very dark.
08:26 This value here 129 would be nice for the left part of my face, the shoulder and for the statue.
08:40 This would be nice for the eyes here
08:48 And this for other eye.
08:53 Now i have to use different ink layer for this image.
09:01 So lets start from the lighter side, like this one here and go back into the image to 100%.
09:14 I double this here and select the threshold tool and pull this slider down.
09:29 But before that i have to make the top layer invisible.
09:46 I think this value is good for this part of the face.
09:56 I make a copy of this layer and make it visible and now I am working on this layer.
10:08 I have to look for the middle terms here.
10:13 This part of the face, I think this works quite good so i look around in the image.
10:23 The statue is fine too.
10:26 This image has a good definition here and near my hand the line is invisible and that is called optical illusion
10:41 I think this is fine and it should be in the image.
10:49 Now i select the Threshold tool make the line here visible and look at the bright parts to get little bit of definition So i slide this up.
11:08 This looks better.
11:12 Now I have 3 copies of my ink layer.
11:17 1st is ink light .
11:28 Top layer is ink dark.
11:34 And lets name the middle layer simply ink.
11:40 Now lets look at the 3 layers and decide which one is to use mostly.
11:49 I think ink layer is a good base, because this is too light and this is too dark.
12:01 So I put this layer in the bottom and I add a layer mask to the dark layer and the light layer.
12:12 I add a layer mask in black which is fully transparent.
12:18 So everything here gets invisible.
12:26 When I draw white on this layer mask of the light layer, the image will be revealed in it.
12:45 So I select the brush tool here with normal mode and opacity 100%.
12:55 I think I shall use a hard brush and the pressure sensitivity should be the Size, so when I press the pen on the surface the dot will be larger.
13:20 My foreground colour is white.
13:24 So lets start
13:28 I think the left part of the face should be brightened.
13:34 I press 1 to zoom into the image.
13:39 I think this brush is too small, so i scale this a bit up.
13:53 That looks better.
14:00 But perhaps it is too bright.
14:05 This has to be either black or white.
14:47 So i switch the colours with ‘X’ key and paint this over again here.
14:57 But i think i can leave this out here and put the next layer above that.
15:14 Now we are more concern about the areas and about the structure, so I should forget about the lines and just look at the structure here.
15:30 Simply leave it as it is.
15:34 I can add another layer easily and now i paint for the dark parts with the white colour.
15:44 Lets see if I can reveal here a little bit.
15:51 I think this is too much.
15:56 I want to make the face a bit darker.
16:08 And here also.
16:19 I think that’s too dark.
16:31 Here there is some work still to be done but I will leave it to this here and look at it after I am done with the next step with the lines and then I can adjust here.
16:46 This has to be brightened up.
16:49 So we'll look at the edit there.
16:53 In this step i have to add some lines and this can be done by doubling the background layer and putting it on top and naming it lines.
17:08 The lines are the edges between different colours.
17:15 So i go to Filters, then we have edge-detect, and here I have difference of Gaussians edge detect.
17:33 The relevant slider is the Radius and if you decrease the number the lines get finer.
17:45 If you increase the number the lines get wider and you get more of the details in the image.
17:56 I would prefer something around 10 but i can go to 30 and then decide where exactly i should stop.
18:10 When i go to 30 i dont get the edges but areas and 12 would give this here.
18:27 And I think I will settle at 10.
18:37 I set the layer mode of this layer to Multiply and for the colour rising I will later need to reduce the white in the image.
18:50 Now lets just checkout if we have got this right upto now.
18:56 So I will switch the lines layer on and off and you see here there is some definition when the line layer is on.
19:08 And now I de-select the dark ink layer and keep the light ink layer.
19:20 The structure that I wanted to have in with my dark ink layer is visible in the lines layer.
19:30 So I will leave the dark ink layer switched off.
19:42 I dont think there is a need to combine these layers here.
19:50 I will leave it as it is, so that i can change something and it will be in the final image.
20:09 Next step as I said I have to reduce the white channel here, and it can be done with the levels tool and I reduce the level upto 240.
20:28 When i switch off this layer you can see that I have a gray background and little bit of colour information in here.
20:40 For getting the colour in the image I copy the background layer and name it Colour and put it on top and set the layer mode to Colour.
21:00 But it doesnt look good so i should change the mode.
21:07 The image has got little bit of colour in here.
21:12 But I want more saturation so again i make the copy of background layer and name it Saturation.
21:24 I set the layer mode to Saturation .
21:29 I think this saturation mode already works and the effects are very good.
21:38 There should have been more flatness in the colour and the hand is not looking comic.
21:47 I will look where this comes from .
21:51 So I can now start to play with this sliders.
21:58 Going down with saturation, gets little bit flatter, and looks more like water colours, so this is a strange effect.
22:19 Now I can start to play with the layers here.
22:26 So I switch off the lines layer and you see here that this is not the effect from the lines but from colours and saturation.
22:39 Now I can make some adjustments because i still have the layers here.
22:47 I want to lighten the face, so I select my ink light layer, select a brush with white foreground colour.
23:12 I zoom into the image.
23:18 Reduce the size of the brush and scale it a bit and now I start to paint the eye here.
23:34 That's too much.
23:50 This looks better.
23:54 Now i paint in this part.
24:00 This is too much.
24:03 You can imagine there can be lot of modifications in here you can make in the image, by changing these areas here.
24:47 This is Ok.
24:51 You can do a lot of changes here and i dont know if i am on the right track.
25:01 But I like it upto now.
25:06 Let’s see what else we can do.
25:10 1st thing is we can use a different layer than the lines.
25:18 So I switch off the lines and I get very strange colours because now I have again a white background
25:31 So add another layer here and set it to white and use multiply mode and fill it with 240 grey.
25:52 Now I have got nearly the same image as with my lines here.
25:59 Let me switch them on.
26:03 I have the lines information coming out but this comic effect is still there and i can look what’s better.
26:21 Lets try some different tricks.
26:30 I double the colour and the saturation layer and do something with them.
26:39 Here I just try to get the details out of the image.
26:45 So go to Filters, Blur and Gaussian blur.
26:53 And here I choose a value which gives me nice effect.
27:08 You see that the colours has got little bit smoother.
27:18 So let's do this on the saturation copy also.
27:24 Go to Filters, Repeat Guassian Blur.
27:29 And now I have really flat image with flat colours.
27:36 So i switch on the original colour and I get a strange effect here.
27:44 Let's rename these layers as saturation blurred and the colour blurred.
28:04 If i combine the blurred saturation with the unblurred colour , i get some colours here which looks quite a bit strange.
28:16 I would like it, if it was not especially on the nose here.
28:22 So switching this back on and I have this effect here.
28:29 You can imagine if you reduce the blurring you get sharpe details.
28:37 This is a real play ground.
28:40 You have a lot of possibilities here like how to do this, what to do, what to tinker with.
28:50 Its really fun to do this.
29:09 The author of the original tutorial has done a tremendous job.
29:24 I am not so happy with both versions of this image.
29:31 I like the structure here and the flower, the statue and the pot here
29:40 I don’t like all the details near the hand and in the face, this could be little bit more flat.
29:49 In the blurred on I like the details in the face and near the hand but I don’t like the flower which is completely blurred away.
30:04 So now i can combine the two images and I will start with colour blurred because I like the over all appearance of this more than of the saturation blurred.
30:20 But I switch on all the layers and add layer mask to saturation blurred and colour blurred and I add a black layer mask fully transparent.
30:37 And now i'll start working on saturation layer mask so i select white as my foreground colour and select the paint brush here.
30:51 Now i start painting.
30:55 I just paint over the parts where I want to have little bit more flatness in the image.
31:04 This will look a bit strange because now I have the colour layer switched on.
31:46 So now i select everything by pressing Shift+ctrl+A and copy it by Ctrl + C, go into the image and press Ctrl + V and click on this Floating Selection and with Ctrl + H or with the anchor layer I have my copy here.
32:20 So you can copy these layer mask too and I think I will leave this image here.
32:32 I think it’s so quite nice example and in the end i play a bit with this sliders.
32:54 Lets recap this.
32:57 You first copy the image layer and make an inked image with threshold tool.
33:05 Look for areas which you want to have black or very dark.
33:10 Then you copy the base image again and make a line layer with the edge detect filter and then you set the layer mode to multiply.
33:29 In this layer you reduce the white to a gray about 240 with the levels tool.
33:42 Then you copy again the base image and make a colour layer.
33:49 Set the colour mode to colour.
33:56 And finally you copy the base layer last time and make a saturation layer and here you set the layer mode to saturation and now you play with the opacity of the different layers or at some layers.
34:20 Just play around. The results are well mixed but some are stunning.
34:32 For more information goto http://meetthegimp.org and to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye.
34:49 This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.

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