In this tutorial, we are going to make a man of steel.
I hope you like the effect.
One way to open our image, is by click and drag our image
from our image folder into Gimp, like so.
There is a download link for the image, a PDF text file
and the example image in the video description.
This technique works best, when our source image has good contrast, especially in the face.
Go to view, zoom and fit image in window.
Then we right click on the layer and click on add alpha channel.
In this way the layer can have transparency.
We make a duplicate of this layer, by clicking the duplicate button
at the bottom of the layers panel.
Double click on its name and rename it face.
Hit enter.
Now we go to the toolbox and we make the paths tool active.
If you are not familiar with this tool, you can find a link in the top of your screen
to a short and simple tutorial about the paths tool.
In a few minutes, you will know how to work with this tool.
In the tool options we click on the configure tab icon.
Then on tool options menu and on reset all tool options.
In the dialog box we can just click reset.
In this way the tool options of all tools are back at their default settings.
Now we are going to select the face.
We can zoom in and out by holding the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel.
We are going to make a path around the face.
Usually it is best to stay just a little bit inside the boundaries of our subject.
But in this case however, it is better to make the path
a bit on the outside of the boundaries.
When we press and hold the mouse wheel, we can, by moving the mouse, move the image.
With Ctrl+Z we can undo and with Ctrl+Y we can redo.
We will speed up the video now.
To close the path, we hover the last node over the first one.
Then we hold the Ctrl key and we can click to close the path.
Now go to the tool options and hit the button selection from path.
Make the whole image visible by pressing Ctrl+Shift+J.
Click on a random tool in the tool box to make the path invisible.
Go to colors, desaturate and again desaturate.
Just click okay in the dialog box.
Go back to colors and now to brightness and contrast.
We increase the brightness to about 20 and the contrast to about 40.
When using an image of your own, you might want to adjust these values
to get a similar contrast.
Then click okay.
Go to select and click on invert, to select the background.
The marching ants show us that the background is selected instead of the face.
Then we click on edit and clear, to remove the background.
By clicking the eye of the bottom layer,
we can see that the desaturated face is now on its own layer.
Press Ctrl+I to invert the selection again to the face.
We are going to smudge the face.
Go to the toolbox and make the smudge tool active.
We choose brush hardness 025
and start with a size of 150.
Make the spacing 5, to get smooth strokes.
Reduce the force to about 25.
When we hold the Ctrl key and then roll the mouse wheel, we can zoom in and out.
While smudging we have to pay attention to the direction in which we move the brush.
We can also make circles.
Press and hold the mouse wheel, and then move the mouse, to move the image.
Pressing the left or right bracket key, makes the brush smaller or bigger.
And because the selection is still active, we can not go outside the face.
But we can smudge in the wrong direction though.
When this happens, we can undo it with Ctrl+Z.
We should not smudge the eyes to much.
How we smudge, has a great effect on the end result, so we have to take our time.
The smoother the skin, the better the end result.
We will go fast forward now.
When the smudging is to our liking, we press Ctrl+Shift+J to fit the image in the window.
And then we press Ctrl+Shift+A to deselect the selection.
In the menu bar we click on colors and in the drop down menu we click on curves.
I have already made a preset for this image, so I will open this.
By clicking and dragging the curve, you can copy this wave form.
And of course adjust it to your own liking.
When we feel that it looks good, we can click okay.
In the next step we are going to work on the eyes.
Make a new layer, by clicking the new layer icon.
Name it eyes.
The mode should be normal and the fill with transparency.
Click okay.
Then we make, in the toolbox, the paintbrush active.
Swap the foreground/background colors, so white is our foreground color.
Make sure that you have brush hardness 075.
Zoom in to the eyes, use the bracket keys to change the brush size.
And paint the eye-white as shown in the video.
We can also make a glimmer light.
And here too we can use Ctrl+Z to undo.
Press Ctrl+Shift+J to fit the image in the window.
We are going to give the black and white a bit of a steel blueish color.
Click on the new layer button.
Name it blueish and click okay.
Right click on the second layer from below and click on alpha to selection.
In this way everything that is not transparent, is selected.
Make the blueish layer active again.
Then make in the toolbox the color picker active.
Check the option sample merged, so when we pick a color,
the eyedropper chooses a color from everything that is visible,
and not only from the active layer.
Click on a bright blue area.
Then we can click and drag the blue color
from the foreground color button into the image.
Make the mode of this layer soft light.
Now we can reduce the opacity to about 30, or to whatever looks good to you.
By clicking the eye of this layer off and on we can see the difference.
Press Ctrl+Shift+A to deselect.
And there we have our man of steel.
I hope you have fun with this tutorial and that you like the effect.
Please do not forget to like and comment, to support my channel.
It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for watching.
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Preparing Your Heart to Receive - Duration: 10:30.
Hello thanks so much for joining us you joined the ride is Twisted Threads my name
is Karen Sims and these are Reflections of Purpose as always we remind you to
like and share these videos remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel so that
you don't miss a beat so today wanted to kind of change gears
just a little bit and I know we've been talking about motivating yourself and
how to set goals and really a lot of things on how to create success in our
lives not just for 2019 but moving ahead but today I want to talk a little bit
about preparing your heart to receive so that's our topic you know how we do we
get right into it preparing your heart to receive so when
we think about preparing our hearts a lot of us you know we love getting gifts
we might love surprises not everybody loves surprises but we love for good
things to come in our lives but there are a few times in our life when having
a good stuff coming together doesn't really help us in any type of capacity
so prepare your heart to receive means to for you to give yourself an
opportunity to have that spirit of gratitude to have a heart of gratitude
to have a heart of thankfulness and really to recognize if you've been
wounded now that's important I love my GI Joe days because it would say knowing
is half the battle there are many of us as adults that we get wounded and maybe
the wounds came from my parents maybe the wounds came from us growing up in
environments that just we're not supportive of who we were
whatever our background I know I have conversations often with my own children
about things they're like you're a totally different person as a
grandmother or me me to my grandchildren than I was to them and you know a lot of
things that changed over the time is because I learned better I was able to
do better and when it comes to setting your heart to receive
we've got to think about those thoughts those experiences that have wounded us
and really take inventory of them there's a lot of things that you do that
you don't even know why you do it so I loved that I had the opportunity to read
a book that was authored by my great great great grandfather and the
importance of me reading his book wasn't just cuz I just because I would learn
more about my family tree and learn about this amazing man and all of the
things that he did but the interesting thing that came as I started reading a
book and in another live I share some more with you all on how that unfolded
and how we got to learn things but I started reading this book and I never
really paid attention to the fact that when I was growing up my mom's mom so my
grandmother passed away when my mother was very very young so I always had
questions about my grandmother that not everybody would answer you know I don't
know if it was a big secret or whatnot but I would always be afraid of would
that happen to me so there was nobody to fill in the blanks and tell the health
story about my grandmother until I got probably about thirty and then somebody
answered the question that I had and my question was simple what did she die
from? And everybody talked about how she lived talked about the wonderful and
amazing person she was but they didn't really get into the thing that always
would scare me and make me limit myself in my own mind cause I was like well did
she drop dead and is that gonna happen to me I know these things sound crazy
but it may be something in your life that it wounded the way that you think
was it a bad relationship? Was it a divorce?
my friend Jacinth Headlam she is on a book release tour right now and the book
is called Love After. Love After divorce Love After hurt and she's got an amazing
story and testimony that she's sharing with the world she's literally all over
in Jamaica in the States just everywhere and I'm so proud of her
but it brought up the thought of what are the areas that we need to be
healed for so now we've admit we we've had the admission that we are wounded
we've taken time to think about the areas that we are wounded in the next
step is we have to grieve we've got to grieve the loss of the things that we
don't know it's like you know songwriters they say it all the time
it's like I'm I'm missing something that I don't even know what it's there cause
it's never been in my life sometimes it's a person where it's like I miss you
and I haven't even met you yet I know that's a song I don't know things anyway
but it literally is the thing that we miss the most we miss the chance to
grieve the loss, to experience the rehabilitation that's needed so if you
sprain your wrist or your arm you'll go for physical therapy and they'll help
you retrain your muscles so that you have a different reaction in life that's
the same thing you got to do when it when you prepare your heart to receive
you got to take that time to heal so in that grieving time you grieve first and
then you take the time to heal because the grieving is literally sort of like a
detox getting that emotional detox and getting everything out of you that
seemed to cause things to fester. You turn that around and you understand that
then you take the time to heal taking the time to heal requires for you to
have a grateful heart an attitude of gratitude and opportunity for you to
understand that if you take a positive approach in the way that you're looking
at things the odds are you'll create a whole new existence in the way that
you're thinking but in your everyday life as well so people will relate to
you differently they'll see you as a different person you know when I was
younger me not only being a single mother I was a teenage mother and so
everybody would be like oh Karen let me tell you what to do I promise you
everybody had mmm they had advice they had parenting
advice they had school advice they had oh my goodness I had the advice on top
of advice, on top advice and then I had to sift through all of that advice and
figure out what things stuck with me but partner 100
that I had to heal was that spirit of inadequacy that I felt like I had that
imposter syndrome that yeah I'm being a good mother but I'm not being anything
else and so I had to redirect my thinking and and remind myself of the
things that I had to be grateful for and then I had to make it part of my daily
routine to repeat positive affirmations I am beautiful so then I'm not waiting
for the next person to tell me I'm beautiful because I told myself that so
I appreciate you for having a spirit of agreement with me to say that I'm
beautiful I am brilliant I am smart I am capable there's nothing I'm unstoppable
I am relentless all of these things that I remind myself and my kids I would tell
them that stuff too and the thing is they actually believed me and so now
they're living lives that allowed them to be great to be brilliant and they
don't have to shrink back in themselves because they understand that my voice
was louder than everybody else's in the world and hopefully most of you as
parents are reminding your children of their greatness you're reminding them of
their uniqueness you're reminding them that they are fearfully and wonderfully
made but they're made with the purpose in this world and it's not just to be
regular people like I would always tell my kids we're not regular you're not
regular why because you're my children and I literally would speak greatness
into them until they believed it now some of them they'll probably say mom
you're doing the most like you're doing too much but it was necessary because I
didn't recognize at the time what they would need to deal with so in this day's
Society of bullying of suicide of people just not really respecting life it's a
lot of things that we need to think of that so when we're thinking about
preparing our hearts to receive be reminded you got to first take inventory
of the areas that you were wounded take the time to grieve take the time to heal
remember to have a grateful heart and repeat positive affirmations if you
don't know where to find them hey we'll post them on twisted threads so you can
follow our Facebook page and really know what to say to yourself and
get yourself in the mirror and say it to yourself until you believe it
now look Seeing is believe it usually maybe the first day you're not gonna believe
everything that you see but somewhere in there you'll continue to hear those
positive affirmations and they will allow the hurt to open your heart and
give you and put you in a place where it is easier for you to receive it's easier
for you to receive love because you're not sitting in a sea of bitterness it's
easier for you to receive good things that's coming to you because you're
putting out good things so if you believe in karma if you believe in the
cycle of reciprocity whatever it is it's what you put out is what you're gonna
get back remember to repeat those things until they become consistent habits in
your life and you will be able to clock the change that you see in your life
you'll be able to see the positive things that literally just fall we hear
people say favor's not fair it's not fair but sometimes it takes some work
because you got to prepare your heart to receive and then once you believe it you
speak it you believe it you will receive it I hope that this message impacted you
in a positive way if it did remember to like and share go on our YouTube channel
and subscribe so you don't miss a thing we've got more positive messages to
motivate you to empower you to impact inspire and transform your very life
Make it an Amazing Day!
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A Plague Tale : Innocence - Ep2: Dark Ages | PS4 - Duration: 3:23.
From the start, we asked ourselves:
what period do we rarely see explored in videogames,
or has room for us to express it a little differently?
We arrived at the Middle Ages.
Our heroes encounter different aspects of this period.
At the beginning they have this comfortable, noble life.
Beyond that, they encounter the realities of a battle-scarred country,
poor settlements of the 14th century,
the Inquisition, and its hierarchical structure.
Regarding the environments, we wanted to stay as true to the period as possible,
relying on one of our strengths as a French studio based in Bordeaux.
Every day we walk the streets here, of which many were built during the Middle Ages.
We wanted to do justice to this unique architecture with winding streets,
rickety houses, things patched up, and built with very simple materials.
Typically, these villages are portrayed as being made up of only
half-timbered houses with jutting corbels.
It's the classic thing you see everywhere.
We tried to break this convention.
There are plenty of examples of villages in the Bordeaux area that date back to the Middle Ages,
without having only these 'agreed upon' archetypes.
We did a lot of research
to really bring the flavor, the feel of that time,
in architecture and the rendering of the universe.
For example, we often came back to this notion that at the time the streets were extremely dirty,
Dirt was everywhere, the notions of hygiene were not at all those of today.
In terms of lighting, we worked quite a lot with master paintings
to try to emulate natural light as much as possible.
We avoid the impression of having
an unnatural spotlight somewhere that illuminates the scene.
For example, we keep in-game sources of light very raw,
in the style of a Vermeer or Bruegel painting.
Claude Lorrain is a painter of the 16th century.
There is a color, a tone in his paintings,
with slightly orange and soft skies that bring
a romanticism to the image, a sweetness, something a little dreamlike.
We wanted to have that in our game.
What I love about what we've done so far
Is that it's actually very close to the initial vision,
what we wanted in terms of mood and feelings
We speak to the type of player who wants to live this kind of experience.
As a result, we have enormous freedom.
It gives us the opportunity to make a game even closer to what we think
some players search for and love today.
Of course, we also made a game that we would have liked to play ourselves.
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10 Stats You Need to Know for Super Bowl LIII (New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles Rams) - Duration: 5:18.
It's been 17 years since the New England Patriots beat the Saint Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI
In Super Bowl LIII, New England quarterback Tom Brady's career comes full circle in a way, as he'll attempt to win his sixth Super Bowl when the Patriots face the Rams this Sunday in Atlanta
While New England is making its third consecutive Super Bowl appearance, the Rams are returning to the big game for the first time since they played the Patriots in early 2002
Here are 10 stats to help get you ready for Super Bowl LIII: 9: Super Bowl appearances by Tom Brady Sunday marks Brady's ninth Super Bowl appearance, the most in NFL history
Brady also has been to more Super Bowls than any other franchise (other than New England of course)
Dallas, Denver, and Pittsburgh all have made eight appearances. From a player perspective, Mike Lodish, who played for the Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos, ranks second on the list with six Super Bowl appearances
17: Age gap between Brady and Jared Goff Brady enters Super Bowl LIII at 41 years old, while Goff makes his first Super Bowl start at 24
To be exact, 17 years and 72 days separate Brady and Goff. It's the largest age difference between quarterbacks in Super Bowl history
33: Age of Los Angels Rams head coach Sean McVay McVay was just a high school student when the New England super duo of Brady and Bill Belichick won their first Super Bowl together
At age 33, McVay is the youngest head coach to lead his team in a Super Bowl. 38: Players on Patriots roster with Super Bowl experience According to ESPN Stats & Info, 38 New England players will take the field Sunday with the experience of having played in the big game
Conversely, Los Angeles' roster features just four players who have Super Bowl experience
Twenty-seven New England players have won a Super Bowl, while three players from the Rams already have a ring
3: Consecutive Super Bowl appearances by New England The Patriots are playing in their third consecutive Super Bowl, and they've gone 1-1 during that span
The Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills are only the other teams in NFL history to have played in three consecutive Super Bowls
7: Number of times the Super Bowl has featured rematches This represents the seventh time the Super Bowl will feature a previous pairing
The experience isn't new to the Patriots, as last year's big game matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles was a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX
12: Number of Super Bowl wins by teams in white jerseys According to ESPN researcher Evan Kaplan, teams wearing white jerseys for the Super Bowl have won 12 of the last 13
Patriot fans will be pleased to know that their team will be wearing their road whites on Sunday
They are 3-2 when doing so in the Super Bowl. 18: Career Super Bowl touchdown passes by Brady In eight Super Bowl starts, Brady has thrown 18 touchdown passes, easily making him the all-time leader in the category (Joe Montana is next with 11)
He also holds the record for pass attempts in a game (62), career pass attempts (357), completions in a game (43), career completions (235), passing yards in a game (505), and career (2,576)
17: Rushing touchdowns by Todd Gurley Gurley led the league with 17 rushing touchdowns in the regular season
He did that even though he played in just 14 games, missing two due to a knee injury
He has scored twice in the playoffs thus far, although he was limited to just 10 rushing yards on four carries (and one catch for three yards) in the NFC Championship game win over New Orleans
In his only previous meeting with New England, the Patriots held Gurley to 38 yards on 11 carries back in Week 13 of the 2016 season
New England won that game 26-10. 7: Grammy Awards won by Gladys Knight Knight, affectionally known as the Empress of Soul, will sing the national anthem at Super Bowl LIII
The Atlanta native has accumulated 18 Grammy nominations in her illustrious career, winning seven
— Written by Elton Hayes, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network. A sports reporter for The Meridian Star, Hayes also has been an invited guest on "The Paul Finebaum Show
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Richard Wolff on Postal Banking - Duration: 3:16.
Postal banking. What does that mean? Post offices around the world, in fact over a
hundred countries have what I'm about to describe to you, the post office provides
financial services. You can have a savings account. You can have a checking
account. You can have a credit card. You can get a loan you can do all the things
you do with a bank but the post office provides you with an option. It's usually
an option that's much more convenient because every post office has it. It's an
option that's usually much cheaper because the government is providing it
and the post offices already exist, and the structure already exists, and the
trained personnel who already deal in money orders and other financial items
are already of available, certified. It's perfect. It's a way to offer Americans, if
we did it, cheap alternatives to banks. What banks?
The banks, the large ones that have been caught over the last five years doing
every illegal and every unethical thing banks are in a position to do. We should
have an alternative, which we don't now. We also have a situation where people
who live paycheck to paycheck often are short and have to go get something
called the payday loan from some lending agency charging hundreds of percent per
year in interest. The post office could provide a cheap, convenient, reliable,
better service for the mass of the American people. If the answer is it must
be left in private hands given how they've behaved and given their
extortionate rates, then you really have to wonder whether we have a government
that's there to serve the private interest or a government that's there to
serve the mass of people with something they really need. A quarter of Americans
are listed as either unbanked or inadequately banked, that is they don't
have a bank convenient to them or they don't have enough money to make it
worthwhile for the bank to give them an account, etc. The post office can serve
the mass of people with a much better alternative. It'll be a better
alternative that also forces the private bankers, on
pain of losing competition, to come up with as good or better service, which is
as it should be. Funny how those banks always celebrate competition but they
don't want it from the government, even though their behavior makes it long
overdue. We actually had postal banking in the
United States from 1911 to 1967. It would bring more revenue if we let the post office do it, which the post office needs to run itself, and to
support the postal services. It's a good idea. It exists in a hundred countries. We
ought to have a demand for it now. It's something the American people need and
the only opposition is from the big banks in the United States and they have
foreclosed any need to do that.
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Why Russians run away from you / Be careful with asking "How are you doing?" in Russia - Duration: 5:18.
Hello This is Sveta. How are you? How we doing? How are things? These are
the questions you can often hear in english-speaking countries and very
rare in Russia. European greetings tend to be quite long because they say both
hello and how are you doing. If you greet somebody you tell him hello
how are you doing and he he is supposed to give you a
very short and positive answer. Like I'm fine thanks what about you. And then you
kinda repeat the same short and positive answer. You can say I'm great thanks. In
Russia things are quite different. Because if I meet somebody and it is not
my best friend and it is not my relative then I would just say hello to him
and that's all. If I meet my best friend then I will say both hello and how are you doing (not how do you do!)
But the nature of that question is different. Because that friend may answer
me in three different ways. If he's fine then just in English he will say I'm fine thanks
what about you. If he is great and if something really good had happened to
him recently or if he is a son of a millionaire
then he'll still say I'm fine because we see this answers like I'm great or I'm
better than everybody else we see it as bragging and we tend to avoid it. But
later in the conversation he will still tell me the truth.And if his life doesn't go the
way he wants his answer will be quite long. And this is the main difference
between our languages because in English you always get a short answer and in
Russian you may get a very long answer. That's why you only ask this question
when you have time to listen to the long story.
And if you're not ready to listen to it then you do not ask this question even
if it's your your best friend. And that's why we rare ask this question. And of
course I understand that asking this question in English is just a formality.
It's just it's like a second part of a complex formal greeting. But Russians
still see this question as a real question and that's why they tend to
answer this question in their Russian way. If you are an English speaker and you are
in Russia and you talk to a random Russian and you tell him Hello! How are you?
Then that Russian will get really confused because he will not understand
why you ask him this question. Because you're not his relative, you're not his
friend. And then he might either either answer nothing and try to leave you as
soon as possible or he will like answer you in a Russian way it means he may
complain a little bit and tell you about his life. And it will create a
misunderstanding because you as an English speaker you expect a short and
positive answer and he as the Russian he may tell you a lot about himself and he
may not understand why you ask him such an intimate question. Of course when we learn
English we also learn the true nature of these kind of questions, but still if
we do not live in an english-speaking country we tend to forget about it
and we tend to see these questions as real. And also if I meet an English
speaker in Russia and I have to greet him then it's also kind of difficult because
I know that I'm supposed to say "How are you doing" but it's like I have to overcome
myself, I have to force myself. Because my nature tells me that "you do not know
that man and you cannot ask him such a question". That's why it's kind of
difficult sometimes. Ao keep it in mind when you're in Russia or when you talk
to a Russian. And do not take it personally if a Russian say just "Hello" to
you and doesn't ask you "How are you doing?"
It's just our Russian language influences there our English language.
And I think that's all for today. If you want to know more about Russia then
subscribe to my channel. And if you do not understand my English sometimes then
you can turn on the subtitles. Also somewhere there. Bye-bye!
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