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.
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It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for watching.
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