#GIMP TUTORIALS FEMALE HOW TO#

92 was actually too low, I ended up choosing 94. I'm still figuring what values work best, still figuring out highlights in general. Using darker than Gray 95% will also affect opacity. I usually choose a value somewhere between 88-94. at less than 100 value is slightly less transparent and seems to work better for highlights. at the default 100 value is very transparent and best for shadows, basically a transparent grey splotchĬolor to Alpha. to alphaĪ 2nd window 'Color to Alpha Color Picker'Ĭolor to Alpha. In 1st window, click the white bar between From. Shortcut ctrl-f (repeats last filter action you performed so it'll Color to Alpha. There's a short fuzzy highlight and an L-shaped fuzzy highlight so paint bucket drop in three rectangles, about 5 px wide. That's now the foreground color, click it in your Toolbox Window I'm going to use the same methods for the highlights layer except use Gray 95% for all of them So now we're familiar with Rectangle Select and Gaussian Blur and the Linear Gradient Tool. Toolbar > Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

R select the same area but add a little on top and bottom, mine was 473x14 The middle of the texture has a fuzzy shadow. I'm just going to R select in two sections and paint bucket drop Gray 90% into both. The upper right has a (mostly) hard edged shadow. There's a much lighter gradient shadow at the top of the texture, select Gray 90%Īdd your 473x1 lighter gray line and follow the steps again, here's what my three gradient shadows looked like: Dragging your mouse down the edge of your texture is where Snap to Canvas Edges is useful.Īdd another 473x1 gray line to the shadow above and do the same steps, you'll be dragging your gradient tool a much shorter distance obviously. It takes a little practice, it's a pretty sensitive tool so just ctrl-z (undo) until you get one you like. R select that entire shadow area now and scroll to the left edge of your textureĪlong the left edge of your texture, click and drag your mouse from your gray line down to almost the very bottom, when you release your mouse it's magic *-* Select the gradients dialog and the FG to Transparent filter (FG = ForeGround) Shortcut shift-B (paint bucket) and drop in a paint bucket of Gray 70%īeneath the layers dialog, there are 3 tabs: brushes, patterns, and gradients I've zoomed in 3 and R selected the (darkest) top line of the largest gradient shadow (473x1) I'll do the 3 gradient shadows on this layer In layers dialog select the new Drop Shadow layer and click the green down arrow so your shadow is under the details layer. Toolbar > Filters > Light and Shadow > Drop Shadow.Īfter clicking OK, click on your texture and ctrl-h to anchor the nailheads back onto the details layer. Select all 12 nailheads, ctrl-x/ctrl-v so they're floating I'm just going to 'paint' one nailhead, copy/paste it 3 times on the neighboring ones, copy the new group of four nailheads and paste them over the other two groups. Zoom in: shortcut 3 (300%) or even shortcut 4 for tiny little things like this if your eyesight isn't great So small it's not necessary but I like little touches like this:Īwesims has 3 goups with 4 little nailheads each ^ this is where I put non-transparent things that stay the same for every rc: door knobs, the backs of pictures, etc. ^ if this desk texture had vertical and horizontal grained wood sections, I'd add two - a wood v layer and a wood h layer I usually go ahead and select Toolbar > View > Snap to Canvas Edges I use the default palette in the Palette Editor window for shading and highlights, I hardly ever chose anything darker than Grey 60% (fifth from last). I've exported its texture in SimPE and opened it in GIMP. We'll pretend its white recolor (see above) doesn't exist since this tutorial would be lazy otherwise. I'm using Awesims' simple desk as an example. Instead of paint-bucket dropping your color into the 'color' layer you'll be pasting your wood texture there instead. If you can find a smooth solid (hopefully white or light) recolor of a mesh (no wood grain), that's always easiest:Įxport that texture in SimPE, open it in GIMP and basically follow the steps I listed here in another tutorial. I'm sure there are easier ways, I just don't know them. Basically I recreate all the shading and shadows from scratch so it's tedious.

#GIMP TUTORIALS FEMALE HOW TO#

I had a request about how to retexture something without the original texture's wood grain showing through.

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