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Posts of topic : Pixel Stretch Signature Tutorial For Gimp Author Post details Kytayle Member Profile Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 244 posted on: Aug 04, 2005 at 03:46:28 Create a new 450x150 document. Fill it with black Start to brush your black layer, use alot of brushes, but dont brush TOOO much. Add in your render as a new layer and set it where it needs to be You can zoom in by 200% if you wish for this step. Using the Rectangle Select tool, select a 1 px line of your renders, hopefully full of color. Make sure theres no transparent gaps in the way. Go to Edit->Copy. Then make a new transparent layer and Edit->Paste you 1px line. DO NOT ANCHOR IT YET! Be sure that your Pasted Layer is selected and go to Layers->Scale Layer. Click the chain to get rid of the aspect ratio, and set the Width to 450. Leave the Height alone and hit OK. Reposition your Pixel stretch layer so its straight in the canvas and achor it. Put the Pixel Stretch layer underneath the render layer and above your Brush layer, and set it to Overlay This Step is Optional. Duplicate your Render layer. On the bottom render, go to Blur->Motion Blur. using Linear, set the Length to 35 and the Angle to 0. You can then duplicate it atleast 2 more times if you wish. Go to Edit->Copy Visible. Make a new transparent layer and paste and anchor it. On the new layer, go to Blur- Gaussian Blur. Set it to 4:4 and hit ok. Set that layer to Overlay This Step is Optional also. Go to Layer->Colors and Desaturate the Render and Pixel Stretch Layers Create a new transparent layer, set it inbetween the Render layer and the Gaussian Blur layer. Take your brushes and brush the transparent layer, but be sure you dont cover up all of the first brushing and pixelstretch. And be sure that you dont brush over your render TOO much, if at all. Flatten your image and go to Filters->Enhance->Sharpen. Set it to around 50. And your done! Add your text and boarder if your wish to spuce things up. regimen de caos Member Profile Joined: Jul 25, 2005 Posts: 265 posted on: Aug 04, 2005 at 06:01:39 Nice tutorial, and thanks! regimen de caos Member Profile Joined: Jul 25, 2005 Posts: 265 posted on: Aug 04, 2005 at 06:59:54 I got to the part just before I brush between the blur, and the render, but I don't know what brushes to use. I don't have the best brushes for this. AKA: nazguldragon15 & silentone ultra mc Member Profile Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 43 posted on: Aug 05, 2005 at 01:41:20 look on devint art.com and download the brushes there. the brush sets are amaizing and its all youle need for a LONG time Tkill Member Profile Joined: Aug 02, 2005 Posts: 44 posted on: Aug 05, 2005 at 05:00:38 s different then the way I learned it but I like it droz928 Member Profile Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 579 posted on: Aug 05, 2005 at 06:59:10 Very cool. Good job! BR7 Member Profile Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 578 posted on: Aug 05, 2005 at 09:41:54 Very Nice Tutorial Kytayle hardrocker1508 Member Profile Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 19 posted on: Aug 08, 2005 at 06:06:29 Thanks you so much for making this tutorial. I haven't been on in a while and just found this! I will post my attemot here. hardrocker1508 Member Profile Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 19 posted on: Aug 08, 2005 at 06:51:23 http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/hardrocker_1508/Hardrockersig1.png darkzone Member Profile Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Posts: 32 posted on: Aug 09, 2005 at 01:02:26 Nice Tut. Gimp successfully crashed at step four every time(five time) so. I substituted a part of the pixel stretch tutorial at that point. This sig is the one I mess up on. I liked how the render and practical affects came out. So started back at step 3 from my save, fixed it to the point where the render and lighting were identical with the proper pixel background. Then gimp crashed. So lost does this only happen to me. Thank for the tut it might not have worked out for me but it is inspirational and a good tut. http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lolw6uh.png MR.?? Member Profile Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 177 posted on: Aug 12, 2005 at 09:52:03 Great Tutorial Dude, This was my end result Kytayle Member Profile Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 244 posted on: Aug 12, 2005 at 10:21:41 good stuff guys ^^ Revolutionary Member Profile Joined: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 18 posted on: Nov 09, 2005 at 05:50:56 I know it's a bit late to be posting this, but I just found this tutorial and thought that it'd look great for what I was currently working on... Hope you like it! Decayedzombie Member Profile Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 183 posted on: Nov 10, 2005 at 02:41:14 How do you make those lines? Its in the begging and its the middle leyer. takkun987 Member Profile Joined: Nov 12, 2005 Posts: 77 posted on: Dec 08, 2005 at 06:46:02 i was looking for this thankss!!!1 PatoSil Member Profile Joined: Dec 23, 2005 Posts: 6 posted on: Dec 24, 2005 at 12:55:47 thats a great tut. it helped a lot. Artificial Member Profile Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 16 posted on: Jan 05, 2006 at 12:03:03 This tutorial's great. I loved the outcome of my sig Drago Member Profile Joined: Dec 26, 2005 Posts: 91 posted on: Jan 29, 2006 at 06:08:28 I'd found out that this doesn't work very well with renders of many colours, but a colour balance layer set to 'Hue' works wonders. DarkMaster Member Profile Joined: Jan 23, 2006 Posts: 43 posted on: Feb 04, 2006 at 11:32:32 Is this good? EDIT: Its my signature Lokevin Member Profile Joined: Feb 02, 2006 Posts: 1 posted on: Feb 07, 2006 at 05:20:59 Can you please provide the brush you used? ShadowGaara Member Profile Joined: Jan 28, 2006 Posts: 130 posted on: Feb 08, 2006 at 05:05:46 Thats going to be useful! Nomadic_Dragon Member Profile Joined: Nov 18, 2005 Posts: 93 posted on: Feb 12, 2006 at 04:23:29 Great tutorial, this is what I was able to make with it. devianbomb Member Profile Joined: May 07, 2006 Posts: 59 posted on: May 07, 2006 at 05:57:42 good tut, heres what i got [URL]http://sirjtaa.com/ Joe Member Profile Joined: Feb 20, 2006 Posts: 97 posted on: May 07, 2006 at 07:42:24 This tut is so incredibly awesome! Mjoed1021 is my username on another forum (RuneHQ). This is my newest sig for that site. This is so awesome, and so easy to do! Thanks so much for the help, I've always liked pixel stretches but never understood how to make them. ~~Joe rookie Member Profile Joined: Mar 25, 2006 Posts: 96 posted on: May 08, 2006 at 06:19:57 nice tut