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:iconnanidanides:
THIS IS A BIG FILE!!!

this is a simple tutorial for lazy GIMP coloring. i am not an expert (in fact, i started using GIMP weeks ago) and i just wanna show how i manage to color, in a quick, lazy way.

GIMP's strength, for me, is the smudge tool- major blending power; it's ability for detail (like hair strands, etc.) is limited vs. Photoshop though.

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people were asking for less clutter, so i cleaned up a bit.
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It's kinda confusing but very helpful.
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Mood: Love !rainbowrash Jun 28, 2011  Student Photographer
wow thank you so much for this on colouring I'v been trying to find a way to make all my art look more like paint tool sai version but all I keep doing is making it look so bland so I have to thank you sooooooo very very much
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:iconinferioritys-complex:
Thanks a lot. Yesterday was my first time coloring with Gimp. I still struggled a bit, but this really helped. :)

Link to pic - [link]
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~Objectionized May 19, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
<3 thanks for this! it helped a lot with my method for coloring skin. <3
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~Anaxandreah Feb 21, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
this is definately hard to understand.
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:iconrestubaiirose:
I find it hard to believe you started recently.
I may just be stupid, but I found this *really* hard to understand. I couldn't get the layers to work or anything. Any suggestions?
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=Noenrix Nov 10, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
I just started using gimp (It's so different compared to oekaki!) so this will come in handy <33
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:iconkeikohayasaka:
uhm, i'm haing a little trouble...cu i fail....how do you get the outline to be in the foreground? D: i can't find where it say's set layer as background and i am soooo confused. pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaseeee heeeelpppp meeeee!!! D: my brain hurts....

cool tut. btw~
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:iconnanidanides:
sorry i was gone for awhile, i was on vacation.
anyway, the set layer as background is not really a real setting, what i do is clean up my scanned image and then place it first on the layers window. I then lock it (lock icon on the layers pane), so it would stay put and not be altered before i add layers on top. the background should be your first layer that other layers will be on top of, or overlap.

I use a different process now to paint in GIMP (used to draw on top of the picture with layers for each section and edited as i went), but its a bit weird.

the new GIMP has a function like lasso+outline highlighter, and it traces the lineart of the original image and cuts it out so(i have to make sure the image is desaturated and dirty spots are cleaned beforehand) i can place just the black outlines on a new layer. Then i can legitimately have a background layer just for the background, and then do a lineart layer that is transparent to the bottom, background layer.
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:iconkeikohayasaka:
i figured it out while you were gone. ^^ thanks anywaysss~
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