Hey. I know I'm new. I was at my friends forums and they DELETED my tutorial. I knew that it could be used somwhere else, and my effort would not go to waste.

Enjoy.

This is Probably my first and last post.
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First off, if you don't have it, you can download it here for free...

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Download version 2.2.10

Section 1: Getting a render [GIMP]

1.) Go here. http://www.render-world.com/gallery/
2.) Search for the render you want....

3.) Then click on it.
4.) Get the full-sized version of it and save it. (right click on it, and save it to desktop, for quick access)




Section 2: Editing the pic [GIMP]

1.) Go to File>Open
2.) Click on desktop, and find the pic.

3.) Go to Tools>Color Tools>Color Balance
4.) Fool around with the bars, until it's the right color.
5.) Go to Image>Scale Image
6.) Make the width 150, and click on the other box, and it will change to another number by default.

7.) Your picture is now small and colored!





Section 3: Making a cool-looking sig [GIMP]

First off, If you don't have GIMP, you can download it here for free. http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

1.) Okay, open up GIMP.
2.) Go to File>New
3.) Set the properties like I have here.

4.) Go to Filters>Renders>Patterns>Grid
5.) Just focuse on the "Horizontal" and "Vertical" columns. Set the width of Horizontal to both of them to one. Then, set the spacing of both of them to seven. Then, set the Offset of both of them to eight. It should look like this...

6.) Alrighties. Now, go to Dialogs>Layers
7.) Click the "New Layer" button at the bottom.

8.) Just click "OK" on the window that pops up, keep everything the same.
9.) Open up your "Layers" box again, and click on the "New layer" ( Making it higlighted and active )

10.) K, go back to your sig. Go to Filters>Render>Clouds>Solid Noise
11.) Alrighty. Another window. Just put this stuff in.

12.) Ok, now go to Tools>Color Tools>Color Balance
13.) Fool around with the bars until you have your desired color. I'm going to have Green.

14.) With that done, grab your render and paste it into the sig.
15.) Click the "Grab" icon.

16.) Now, move your render around until you have it in the spot you want it in.

17.) Now, type your name in the sig...
18.) Go to Script-Fu>Décor>Add Border
19.) Adjust the settings like this...(You can change the color of it)

20.) Open up your "Layers" box, and click on the "New Layer" and lower the opacity of it....(probably around 90.2)

21.) And, yeah! You did it!

I don't think that was your last post. (BTW, nice tutorial.)

You're right. I guess I'll stay here...

The smilies look pretty cool! :h:

By the way, Thanks.

Hey nice tut but it wont let me on the webbie any suggestions???

Oh...um....well, here's another render site...

http://www.clantemplates.com/renders/gallery/

(copy and paste it into the address bar)

By the way, you don't NEED a render for a sig...it's optional...

ty =)

u like? ty for the tut i love it

Oh my god! That's awesome! :l:

YEAH! My tutorial helped someone! I feel famous... :h:

thanks for the great tut (stay longer) :w: *pokes siggy* theres mine

Sweet tut ,its really good!

Heres mine!

yay collest sig in the forum ;P

Now mines the best one! :l:

no mine !! look on my new sig

Great Tut.
But I couldn't get the hang of the colour balance thing, So I simply made a new layer with the colour I wanted and set it to overlay...You're not gonna eat me are you? ;;

But yeah, easy for Newbies, and still yields great results. Nice work :l:

Ooh, nice Sig. I'll try this sometime...when I gots less on my plate. I'm in Tech sig mode now, and this don't work too well with tech sigs...it's too clean-looking. Great tut!

This tut was great My result....

....make more tuts they are good.... :w:

i like it alot :l:

my result [img]//p4.piczo.com/img/i122304762_71275_4.gif[/img]
it is my first pic ive made

Nice tut ^^

Hello all , iam new to ( Gimp ) program and i would like to learn something , how do i move from layer to another plz? example i create a layer and its ( Background ) and then i create another layer how do i move the the 2nd layer and 3rd layer etc please?

You can either click on the layer and drag it, or use the little arrows at the bottom of the layer dialog. You can't move the background layer unless you first add an alpha channel to it. Either right click on it and click "Add Alpha Channel", or do Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. The alpha channel is what allows for transparency.

As for selecting layers, just click on them. Whatever you do on your canvas happens on that layer only (unless the layers are linked, and that only supports certain functions).

Each layer has an "eye" icon. Clicking it turns the layer on and off. Next to it is an icon that looks like a chain. Normally it is off. Clicking turns it on, each layer with a chain icon turned on is linked. So if you use the move tool and move one layer that is part of a linked group, they all move. An example would be if you created a text layer and a drop shadow layer for it underneath. You could link them, then move both together to position the text/dropshadow wherever you wanted.

Layers can be smaller or larger than your canvas. For instance, often when you create a text layer it is surrounded by a yellow dashed line. That is the layer boundary for that layer. If you do Layer>Layer to Image Size (can also use right click ont he layer), the yellow line goes away, now the layer is the same size as the canvas.

i know i won't understand this lol , would u mind adding me in msn? roottouch@hotmail.com i will talk to u there :h:

I can't seem to make the grid show up... :s:

Nice tut check out this

something gone wrong in this post check second one sorry for the spam

here this is what i mean the render comes too big in the sig and i cant see a way to scale it down and i added it as a new layer cause the dragging thosnt wanna work