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Spicing up black and white images with Gimp

cooljeba — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:05:25 +0000

Today we try to spice up a grayscale image by coloring some parts. We use a photo of Rose McGowan (known from the TV series Charmed where she plays Paige Halliwell) as the original, color the whole image and especially point out the lips and eyes.

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Creating Dark Surreal Image in Gimp

cooljeba — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:57:45 +0000

This tutorial is all about creating an dark surreal using some free stock images from Deviant Art and i want to introduce some new trick – combining two great free software, Gimp and IrfanView. The composition is quite simple, but with a little inspiration you can create something really nice.

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Create a live 3D-Earth with live clouds

cooljeba — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:36:07 +0000

Our user Nooster wrote a cool tutorial on his blog. He shows uns how to generate a realistic 3D globe with clouds that have been snapped by a sattelite live from space! Enjoy

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Create a sparkling Disco Ball

cooljeba — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:49:17 +0000

For one it might be a relic from the past, for others it is a symbol for pure party and dancing: a disco ball. It is a sparkling and glossy orb that has a glassy mosaic-like surface which is then rotating in colored disco light to spread the lights into different directions.

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How to make Photographs Vintage in GIMP

cooljeba — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:59:06 +0000

Vintage style is sometimes desired to achieve a certain mood and aesthetic for a photograph. In this Gimp tutorial I’ll show you how to make your photographs Vintage in a few short easy steps.

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Making Skies dramatic

cooljeba — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:25:55 +0000

An easy way to make ordinary white cloud on blue skies into dramatic significant parts of your photographs. This is a very simple trick to do in GIMP and the results are great!

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Realistic Photo Compositing with The GIMP

cooljeba — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:36:46 +0000

Just to give you an overview, this article you are about to spend some time on will teach you basically how to add 2-dimensional elements to photos or just any other image you wish to, apply effects to better enhance the composition and plan out your scenes well.

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[AVATAR] Become a real Na'Vi using GIMP!

cooljeba — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:05:34 +0000

Many of you surely know the new film (by James Cameron) which already became the most successful film of all time: AVATAR! I’m a fan of the movie and so finally i had time to write a tutorial on how to make yourself into a real NA’Vi Enjoy!

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The creepy zombie hand of death!

cooljeba — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:26:01 +0000

In this tutorial I show you how to transform your own hand into a creepy zombie hand of death that is full of blood! I love to think about such cool looking titles Enjoy the tutorial!

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Fiery Space Explosion in Gimp

cooljeba — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:11:19 +0000

Here’s a new tutorial in Gimp for ya guys. Today I’m going to teach you how to create a fiery space explosion in Gimp.

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