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Diva	Jan 7 2008, 10:03 AM
Administrator Posts: 82 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jan 6, 2008	Lines and Scans Tutorial This tutorial is going to show you how to make a neat sig complete with scanlines and trendy design lines. This is my final result: You'll need: 1) Some basic knowledge of GIMP 2) A scanline pattern (or 3x3 under Filters-->Distorts-->Video might work) 3) Two smudgeable C4D's 4) A C4D that creates a line effect 5) Some basic knowledge of the Paths tool 1) Start off with a new white canvas. I'm setting it at 400x150, but you can have yours any height and width you'd like. At this time, get out your Layers and Patterns dialogs. 2) Duplicate your white canvas layer twice. Now get out two C4D's you can smudge. I'm using two from Jsun's C4D render pack. Hide the top duplicated layer. Now scale the first C4D you got to the width of your tag. Copy it, then move it to a position that's really good where you can smudge it. Layer to Image Size it, then paste it to a new layer. Now unhide the top duplicated layer, and paste the C4D to a new layer. Go ahead and merge this with the top duplicated layer. Name it after the C4D you're using. Now hide the first duplicated layer and bring it up top. Copy your second C4D to the clipboard, and move it where you can get a good smudge on it. Layer to Image size it, then paste it to a new layer. Now merge this layer with the duplicated blank canvas layer. Again, name it after the C4D you're using. The first C4D I'm using: The second C4D I'm using: 3) Now you can start smudging. Hide the top C4D layer first. Now get out your smudge tool, and your brushes dialog. Get out a good, small brush you can use to smudge with, and bring the spacing down to one. Now start smudging, and smudge until you can't see a trace of lines or the C4D. We're going to make this as much of a colorful 'blob' type smudge as we can. After you've gotten a good enough smudge, leave this layer alone. Now we're going to smudge with the second C4D. Again, smudge until you can't see a trace of the lines or the C4D. Make this as much of a 'blob' type smudge as you can. Set this layer on Hard Light at full opacity, then merge it with the other smudging layer. The merged smudge layer: 4) Duplicate this layer, and set it on Screen at full opacity. Now we're going to add some lines to it. Get out your patterns dialog and then get out a scanline pattern (or go under Filters-->Distorts-->Video-->3x3 if you don't have a scanline pattern handy). Set the scanlines directly on the duplicated smudged C4D layer. Now set this on Screen, or Dodge, or Addition, whatever looks good to you. I set mine on Addition at 90% opacity. 5) Now it's time to get out a crop. Scale it to about the size of your image, then copy it to the clipboard. Now move it until it's at a good position that isn't quite at the center of the tag. Layer to Image size it, then paste it to a new layer. Name this layer after your subject. I used an eraser to erase parts of the crop that didn't look right, to help blend it in with the rest of the tag. This is the crop I'm using: 6) Get out another C4D. This time pick out one that can make a good lined effect. Scale it to about the width of your tag, and then copy it to the clipboard. Get out your Move tool, and move it to a good place. Layer to Image size it, then paste it to a new layer. Now alpha to selection your crop layer, and go to Select-->Feather. Feather it by a healthy amount (I chose 50), then make the C4D layer active and delete the effect over the crop. Now set this C4D layer to Screen at half opacity. 7) Now we're going to do something with this. Make a new white layer, and name it Scanlines. Fill this layer with the Scanlines pattern. If you don't have a 'Scanlines' pattern, just copy visible, paste, and repeat the 3x3. Set it to Screen at 80% opacity. Now, alpha to select your crop layer again, and this time just make the scanlines layer active. Now hit Delete to clear the effects over your crop. 8) Time for a couple of gradient maps. Copy visible, then paste it to a new layer. Duplicate the layer once so you have two pasted layers. Hide the top pasted layer. Now get out your Gradients dialog. Layer A: Get out a dark-based gradient map to use. Me, I'm going to use the Default gradient map. Now go under Colors-->Map-->Gradient Map, and run your dark gradient. Now set it to whatever you think is best, but at full opacity. This is the gradient I chose: Layer B: Now unhide the top pasted layer. Go into your gradient dialog again, and this time pick out a lighter based gradient to use. I'm using the Pastel Rainbow gradient map. Repeat the gradient, but with the lighter one, and set to Overlay at full opacity. This is the gradient I chose: 9) It's time to use the Paths tool. Make a new transparent layer and simply call it 'Lines'. Now get out your Paths tool. Make a straight line overlapping the 'no man's land' area to about the halfway point of the tag. Use the bottom handle to drag outward to create a curve. Now use the Paths tool the rest of the way to create a straight line from the curve's bottom anchor point down to the left fourth's 'no man's land' area. Now go under Edit-->Stroke Path, and set the pixels to 2. Duplicate this layer twice, and get out your Move tool. Now move each of the two duplicate layers to where the curves are separate from each other, but the lines are together as one. Layer to Image size each. Then set all three of them on Overlay at full opacity. 10) Let's make one last scanline effect. Make a new white layer again, and this time call it 'Scanline again'. (If you don't have a scanline pattern, just use the 3x3 effect located under Filters-->Distorts-->Video). Fill the white layer with the Scanlines pattern, and just set it on Overlay at 30% opacity. 11) Now for the finishing touches. If you want extra effects or more adjustments, go ahead. After you're done, we're going to make a border, and add some optional text. Go into your Color Palette (this is done by clicking twice on either the black or white square), and choose a soft color. Now name your layer 'Border', and fill it with the soft color. Select-->All, then Select-->Shrink. Take it to two pixels, and make sure that the Shrink from Image Border box is checked. Hit Delete to clear the remainder. Now you have a nice tag all complete with pathlines and scanlines.


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