Learning Gimp

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I also did shrink it(Obviously)
Tell me how you think I did, first time "GIMP" user I kind of just played around with it. I also need help with the text tool, its a little confusing to me

yeah its rlly good

For a new user... Its decent at best (being honest)

But i like what you did with the lighting, however i would have used some lighting effects on the font, or added a drop shadow to give it a sorta "enhanced" look to it. But all you really did was added text on an image, not many effects in here from what I see, but nice start,

I would recommend trying out some tutorials in the toturials post, and doing some of them to learn how to do cool effects.

Also if you can download some new brushes and fonts, I personally HATE the fonts and brushes on GIMP
So i downloaded some from Deviantart.com

Remember brushes=greatness

I won't go into further detail now because you still need to get yourself more familiar with the program. When you get more associated with the program, xfire me and ill send you some advanced tutorials that i found quite helpful, and even some of my favorite brushes.

Overall i rate it 7.5/10 for a first attempt with photo manipulation. ^ ^

The text tool is odd, when i select the area to type alls tht comes up is a little box, it wont let me edit the font or size or color

Kermit wrote:

For a new user... Its decent at best (being honest)

But i like what you did with the lighting, however i would have used some lighting effects on the font, or added a drop shadow to give it a sorta "enhanced" look to it. But all you really did was added text on an image, not many effects in here from what I see, but nice start,

I would recommend trying out some tutorials in the toturials post, and doing some of them to learn how to do cool effects.

Also if you can download some new brushes and fonts, I personally HATE the fonts and brushes on GIMP
So i downloaded some from Deviantart.com

Remember brushes=greatness

I won't go into further detail now because you still need to get yourself more familiar with the program. When you get more associated with the program, xfire me and ill send you some advanced tutorials that i found quite helpful, and even some of my favorite brushes.

Overall i rate it 7.5/10 for a first attempt with photo manipulation. ^ ^

agreed i would give it a 8/10 cuz he is a first user and he did pretty good

Either way, looks pretty boss

Thanks homies

Atlas wrote:

The text tool is odd, when i select the area to type alls tht comes up is a little box, it wont let me edit the font or size or color

Yeah i know, even I still have trouble with it sometimes.

http://www.designyourownweb.com/gimp/text-gimp.htm

This is a tutoiral on editing the text in GIMP, Hope it helps.