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How to make a splash - Cartoon style!
You may see something after some of the steps, that looks like "(layer name: ******)", this is optional, but may help you.
For this tutorial, you'll need the following texture, which should be loaded in GIMP, but if it isn't, grab the following image, open it in
GIMP, and save it in your patterns folder (probably something like C:\\Program Files\\GIMP-2.0\\share\\gimp\\2.0\\patterns), with the
name "pine?", question mark included.
1. Make a new image, ours is 300 by 290. Fill the background with black. (At this point, your Foreground, and Background colors
should be #000, and #FFF). (Layer name: Background)
2. Make a new layer (transparent). Here we're going to make the horizon. Take your path selection tool, make some points from left to
right, and bend them so that it looks uneven. You'll need to make your path extend off the image (left and right sides), and over the
top, make them connect, so that one ball point lays over the other (look at the screenshot in step 6, on the left and right off of the
image). Now go to Select->From Path. Now you need to set your foreground color to #fdc884, and fill it with that. then unselect.
(Layer name: "Sky")
[img]http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6924/20cr.png[img] 3. Now make a new layer, select and even circle. Ours is (I think) 52x52, but it should be made in that area at any rate. Fill your circle with white (if that's not one of your FG or BG colors, you might want to make it one now). Move your circle to the top right. (Layer name: Sun) [img]http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4945/31px.png[/img]
4. With the circle layer still selected, go to "Script-Fu->Layer Effects->Drop Shadow. Set the Lighting (degrees) to 60, Offset Radius
to 2, and Shadow Blur Radius to 2 as well. Everyhing else can stay the same.
5. Now do the same thing (repeat steps 3 and 4), but instead of selecting a circle with the marquee tool, we'll be using the marquee
tool to select an oval, fill it with white, and then select another oval, connected to the first one. (Layer name: Cloud) Here's my result
when I finished the revised step 3 and the full step 4.
6. Make a new layer. This is where we'll be making our grass. You should see a line where the yellow meets the black? Get out the
paths tool, and make a bunch of spikes just above of that line, something like this.
Extend the paths off the screen, below the bottom. Then go to "Select->Path to Selection".
7. Now Select your Bucket Fill tool, and choose that "Pine?" Pattern. Fill the selection with it.
8. DO NOT unselect the selection yet. Go to Filters->Noise->Pick, and set "repeat" to 50, and randomization, to 50. It will take a
while to work, but this will be your result. (Layer name: Grass)
9. Make a new layer, get out your path selection tools, and make a bunch of selections like this all the way across the bottom of the
image (you can make a new layer by clicking while holding down SHIFT).
Now do a Path to selction again, and fill with #fdc884. Perform alpha to selection on the grass layer, select the new layer, and go to
"Select->Invert", and clear it. Set the mode to Dodge, and lower the opacity to 30.0. (Layer name: Fields)
10. Now make a new layer, and put a predrawn tree on it. You can make your tree in Inkscape, or GIMP, or any graphics program
with paths. Anyways, paste it onto the tree, and lower the opacity to 75. You can also paste your favorite icon onto, just make sure
it's filled with plan black.
11. I messed to tutorial up a bit, so this part should have bene done a while ago, but can still be done now. Go back down the the sun
layer, create a new layer, and move under the sun layer. Get out your path selection tool (Yup, again), start making some lines like
you did before, but start them all inside the sun area, and make them reaching out to everything around it. Make sure the lines are
about the same length, perform path to selection, make #ffdaa9 your FG color, and fill the selection with it. (Layer name: Sun rays).
Do the same drop shadow thing we did before (Script-Fu->Drop Shadow) with the same settings. I removed the sun so you couldkinda see what the paths look like.
This is the basic of how it's done. Stuff like text and nifty little extras are your preference.
Enjoy! (Sorry if the tutorials 2nd rate, I had to hurry it to enter it in the GIMP.org contest)
Marty J.
