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|Welcome to the spoken tutorial of Meet The GIMP.  

|My Name is Rolf Steinort and i am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.  

|In the beginning I will do something that I always forget to mention.

| I always forget to save the image before doing anything to it.  

|So I go to File, Save as and save this as  

| comic.xcf  

| Never save anything in Gimp as JPEG or tif or so, if you want to work further with it.  

| You can export from there to every format you want to but for anything you want to do further work with, use XCF.  

|So what to do? 1st thing I have to clear up this image a bit.  

|There are two problems here, 1st the guy behind me.

|And 2nd is this clutter below here.  

|So let me 1st take away this stuff here.   

|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.

|So i select the clone tool and change the size of the pen.  

| Now I press Ctrl and Click to get a starting point and now I simply start to paint.  

| But before starting that i change the Overlay mode to Normal mode, opacity to 100 and now let’s start painting.   

|Image get's a little bit cloudy so i select another brush to paint.  

|So the guy is gone.  

|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.  

|So now lets do a bit about the flower pot here.   

|I think i should clone from this point.  

|The comic image basically consist of three parts.  

|1st there are the black patches or dark patches with no colours, which gives structure to the image.  

|Then there are the lines which defines forms and items in the image.  

| And for that  

| I double this layer and call it ink.   

|I select the Threshold tool and click into the image and pull the info window into the image.

|You see here the image is black and white.  

|If the pixel is lighter than at the moment 82 then the combination of average value of red, green and blue is white.

|Now we face the 1st problem here.   

|When I draw this slider around the effect is very dark.  

|This value here 129 would be nice for the left part of my face, the shoulder and for the statue.  

|And this for other eye.  

|Now i have to use different ink layer for this image.

|So lets start from the lighter side, like this one here and go back into the image to 100%.

| I double this here and select the threshold tool and pull this slider down.  

|  But before that i have to make the top layer invisible.  

|  This part of the face, I think this works quite good so i look around in the image.

| This image has a good definition here and near my hand the line is invisible and that is called optical illusion

|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 have 3 copies of my ink layer.  

|1st is ink light .  

|Top layer is ink dark.   

|And lets name the middle layer simply ink.   

|Now lets look at the 3 layers and decide which one is to use mostly.   

|I think ink layer is a good base, because this is too light and this is too dark.   

|So I put this layer in the bottom and I add a layer mask to the dark layer and the light layer.

| I add a layer mask in black which is fully transparent.

|So everything here gets invisible.   

| When I draw white on this layer mask of the light layer, the image will be revealed in it.

| So I select the brush tool here with normal mode and opacity 100%.  

| 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.   

|My foreground colour is white.  

| So lets start

|I think this brush is too small,  so i scale this a bit up.  

|So i switch the colours with ‘X’ key and paint this over again here.

| But i think i can leave this out here and put the next layer above that.  

| 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.   

|I can add another layer easily and now i paint for the dark parts with the white colour.

| Lets see if I can reveal here a little bit.  

|I think that’s too dark.  

| 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.   

|So we'll look at the edit there.  

|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.  

|So i go to Filters, then we have edge-detect, and here I have difference of Gaussians edge detect.   

|The relevant slider is the Radius and if you decrease the number the lines get finer.  

|If you increase the number the lines get wider and you get more of the details in the image.  

|I would prefer something around 10 but i can go to 30 and then decide where exactly i should stop.  

|When i go to 30 i dont get the edges but areas and 12 would give this here.   

|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.  

|Now lets just checkout if we have got this right upto now.  

|So I will switch the lines layer on and off and you see here there is some definition when the line layer is on.  

|And now I de-select the dark ink layer and keep the light ink layer.  

|The structure that I wanted to have in with my dark ink layer is visible in the lines layer.  

|So I will leave the dark ink layer switched off.   

|I dont think there is a need to combine these layers here.  

|I will leave it as it is, so that i can change something and it will be in the final image.  

|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.  

|When i switch off this layer you can see that I have a gray background and little bit of colour information in here.  

|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.  

|But it doesnt look good so i should change the mode.  

| But I want more saturation so again i make the copy of background layer and name it Saturation.  

|I set the layer mode to Saturation .  

|I think this saturation mode already works and the effects are very good.  

| I will look where this comes from .

| So I can now start to play with this sliders.  

| Going down with saturation, gets little bit flatter, and looks more like water colours, so this is a strange effect.   

|Now I can start to play with the layers here.   

|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.

|Now I can make some adjustments because i still have the layers here.  

|I want to lighten the face, so I select my ink light layer, select a brush with white foreground colour.  

|Reduce the size of the brush and scale it a bit and now I start to paint the eye here.  

|Now i paint in this part.  

|You can imagine there can be lot of modifications in here you can make in the image, by changing these areas here.  

|This is Ok.  

|You can do a lot of changes here and i dont know if i am on the right track.  

| But I like it upto now.  

|  1st thing is we can use a different layer than the lines.

|So I switch off the lines and I get very strange colours because now I have again a white background  

|So add another layer here and set it to white and use multiply mode and fill it with 240 grey.  

|Now I have got nearly the same image as with my lines here.

|I have the lines information coming out but this comic effect is still there and i can look what’s better.   

|Lets try some different tricks.  

|I double the colour and the saturation layer and do something with them.  

|Here I just try to get the details out of the image.  

|So go to Filters, Blur and Gaussian blur.  

|And here I choose a value which gives me nice effect.  

|You see that the colours has got little bit smoother.

| So let's do this on the saturation copy also.  

| Go to Filters, Repeat Guassian Blur.  

|So i switch on the original colour and I get a strange effect here.   

| Let's rename these layers as saturation blurred and the colour blurred.   

|If i combine the blurred saturation with the unblurred colour , i get some colours here which looks quite a bit strange.   

|I would like it, if it was not especially on the nose here.  

|So switching this back on and I have this effect here.

|You can imagine if you reduce the blurring you get sharpe details.  

| Its really fun to do this.     

| I like the structure here and the flower, the statue and the pot here

|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.  

|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.  

|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.   

|And now i'll start working on saturation layer mask so i select white as my foreground colour and select the paint brush here.

| Now i start painting.   

|This will look a bit strange because now I have the colour layer switched on.  

|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 you can copy these layer mask too and I think I will leave this image here.  

|I think it’s so quite nice example and in the end i play a bit with this sliders.  

|You first copy the image layer and make  an ''inked''  image with threshold tool.

|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.  

|In this layer you reduce the white to a gray about 240 with the levels tool.  

|Then you copy again the base image and make a colour layer.  

|Set the colour mode to colour.  

|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.

|For more information goto http://meetthegimp.org and to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org. Good bye.  

|This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.