[da nite slaya]

Hello people, today I will make my first tutorial, how to make a potion!. But first, I would like to give credit to fencepost for creating this tutorial: http://www.gimptalk....p?a=v&t=187&f=8 , which taught me how to make the glass orb for my potion. To do this you must have a basic understanding of the "Map Objects" tool, "Selections" tool, and "Layers", Okay lets get started:

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CREATING POTIONS IN GIMP

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1. Create a new image, 400 X 400.

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2. Rename your background layer "Container" and add 3 transparency layers and rename them "Liquid", "Cork" and "Top".



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3. Now with the "Container" layer selected, go to Filters >> Map >> Map Objejct and set the settings like this:



leave the "Orientation" tab "Rotation" settings all zeroes

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4. Now go to Filters >> Colors >> Color To Alpha, and click on the white box, now in the Html Notation box type in b7b7b7.



Now for a better effect, duplicate your "Container" layer and merge it down.

your image should look like this so far:



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5. Now Select your "Liquid" layer and grab your "Rectangle Selection" tool (Tools >> Selection Tools >> Rect Select) and select about two thirds of your "Container", mine is 246 pixles high (MAKE SURE YOUR SELECTION COVERS THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF THE IMAGE!!!), like this:



Fill the selection with the color you want your liquid to be, again, make sure your "Liquid" layer is selected.

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6. Deselect your layer (Select >> None). Now go to Filters >> Map >> Map Objects, and set the settings like in step 3, but in the "Orientation" tab, set the "Z" in "Rotation" to 9.0 like this:



Your picture should now look like this:



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7. Now select your "Top" layer and fill it with solid white, Repeat step 3 but instead of "Map To: Sphere" drop down and select "Map To: Cylinder". Set Theese settings:



Now repeat step 4 with your "Top" layer.

Your image should now look like this:



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8.Okay, now we are almost done! Select your "Cork" layer and take a dark-yellow-orange color, for example, try #d29900. fill your whole "Cork" layer with it and Go to Filters >> Map >> Map Object and "Map to Cylinder" with theese setings:



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9. Congratulations! you are done!!! Lets add the final touches:

Put the layers in this order (top to bottom) :

"Top"

"Cork"

"Container"

"Liquid"

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10. It should look fairly realistic now. this is my result:



Happy GIMP'n ^_^

-da nite slaya

Criticsicm and compliment accepted ^_^

[DirtyJersian]

The outcome is nice, good job.

You should try to add the tutorial on adding a rippling water effect somehow.

[da nite slaya]

Thank you for the i dea but ive tried that and the outcome is very... screwd up :a: . can u help me make the effect?

[Ali Imran]

Very nice step by step tutorial. Moved t oofficial illustrated tutorials.

Thanks for sharing.

regards

[da nite slaya]

TY soooo Much! :l:

hey? ur birthday is on the 3rd? wow, Mine is on the fourth :o:

Will anyone help me with the ripplin effect, I can't get it rite.

[ccbarr]

I have one thing to say in response to this tutorial:

"I'll get you my pretty! And your little dog too!"

Heh, just that word potion made me think if the Wicked Witch on the Wizard of Oz.

Nice tutorial, nice results. :l:

[kward1979uk]

Here is my attempt



To geta liquidy ripple to the liquid layer i used the bases of this tutorial you dont need to do the black layer, shrink by 2 pixels or the shine layer.

[da nite slaya]

nice, I like it!

[Watup]

This is what I got. :a:

[da nite slaya]

hmmm... id guess ur one of those people who likes to experiment (which is good if u do a little experimenting)... a little too much :a:.

theese are your mistakes.

[*]U did not set the light correctly

[*]U did not select the whole canvas of the image

[*]U did not set the cylynder cap faces like in the tut

Sorry for criticising so much, i just wanted to show u where u went wrong
:l:, No hard feelings

[Joe]

Hmm, when I started, mine had a black ring around it. I don't know what that is, or means. I followed all your settings, and it remained. I am continueing on trying to follow the steps, but they are a bit tough for me; I'm fairly new to GIMP.

~~Joe

[da nite slaya]

Post an image of wut u got. :l:

[babyang]

Heyy... I tried this tutorial, and this is what I got:

[da nite slaya]

nice but u need to pay attenttion to the cork settings. Other than that it's nice, i like the liquid. :l:

[predator13]

Very nice..but can someone help me? I know this is not the right place to ask, but how come I can't create my own topics? everytime i click new topic, it says "you cannot post new topic in this forum"...is it because I am new here?

[babyang]

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nice but u need to pay attenttion to the cork settings. Other than that it�s nice, i like the liquid. :l:

Thanks, and yea I know I messed up with that.
I added something to the liquid, but I forgot what I did... lol.. :l:

[da nite slaya]

Babyang:lol thats funny:l:

Predator: u need to go to the user created tutorials not the official tutorials :l:. if its good enough, ali imran will move it for you.

[Vertigo]

How do I select Layers?I'm kinda new here and also each time I click on container and do the Map object part,it shows a new window with a sphere but with black stuff around it and it has only one layer.Maybe it's because I don't know how to select or somthing like that?

[Kevda]

This is what I got:

Hmm.. I'm curiously if there are more 3d-Object tut like this one :).

[ryvkah]

there's a flower one that I made!