You’ll Learn
- A comprehensive understanding of GIMP
- Installing and setup of GIMP
- Essential image manipulation actions
- Colour and light adjustments
- Enhancing and blurring images
- Resizing and selections
- Transformations
- Special effects
- Fixing 3D render artefacts and poke throughs
- Manipulating text
- Masks
- Styles
- Working with alpha – use of transparency
- Mixed media
- Managing and altering maps
Two Session Course Includes
- Two x 1.5 hour webinar sessions and HD recordings
- Class materials
Who is this Course for?
- Digital artists who are looking to learn a new cost effective post working tool
- 3D artists who want an introduction to GIMP
- Photoshop owners interested to know equivalent operations in GIMP
Requirements
- DAZ Studio
- GIMP
- Tablet (optional)
Session 1 – Introduction and Foundation Actions for 3D Artists
Date : Sunday the 15th of March
Time : 19:00 GMT (London) / 12:00 PDT (Los Angeles) / 15:00 EDT (New York)
Introduction
- Overview of course
- Downloading and installing
- Versions of GIMP
- About addons and plugins
- Opening, saving and exporting
- Toolbox
- Layers
- Undo!
Basic image manipulation in GIMP
Essential Actions in GIMP for 3D Digital Artists
- Open render image
- Change view – zoom
- Change size – dpi etc
- Duplicate layers
Colour and light adjustments
- Gamma correction – contrast adjustment – value adjustment
- Saturation – desaturation – oversaturation
- Colour adjustment – colourtemperature adjustment
Enhance and Blur
- Noise reduction
- Sharpen
- Three blur actions
Resize and selection
- Crop to content – crop to selection (image and layer)
- Selection tools
- Create new from clipboard
Session 2 – Intermediate and Complex Actions
(Bullet points)
Date : Sunday the 22nd of March
Time : 19:00 GMT (London) / 12:00 PDT (Los Angeles) / 15:00 EDT (New York)
Intermediate Actions:
Transformations
- Size x-y linked and unlinked
- Mirror – horizontally -vertically 180° turn
- Rotate – tilting – perspective
Effects
- Soft glow
- Lens flare
- Brighten up selective parts
- Special effects : sun sparkles, star flashes and fairy dust
Fixing things
- Poke through – colour over, copy paste selection and smear
Adding text
- All about the text tool
- Font – size – fat – cursive
- Alignment – line distance
- Colour – selection – alterations
Complex alteration
- Creating masks
- Example camera view (with special effect video degradation
- Example speech balloons (stroke selection)
- Vignettes and other games with gradients
Stylisations
- Black and white – lines
- Colour to alpha (using the alpha layer, applications for stylisation)
- Fun with filters
- Reunite the layers
- Select by colour
Mixed Media
- 3d and photos
Creating and changing maps for DAZ Studio (from simple to complex)
- Clouds and atmospheric effects (for simple planes)
- Noise maps
- Bump and displacement from existing maps
- Preparing LIE maps
- Alter existing maps
About the Presenter : Annette Stenzelle (Linwelly)
My name is Annette Stenzel though I’m better know as Linwelly, I live with my husband, two children and two rabbits in Germany near Cologne.
After a journey through diverse art forms such as drawing, watercolour, calligraphy, photography and even sewing medieval costumes, I discovered DAZ Studio in December 2014 and it quickly became my favourite creative tool. One year later I joined the DAZ forums Community Volunteers to return some of the kind help that I received, which I still receive whenever I ask!
With a great love for fairy-tale and medieval fantasy I delved deep into the possibilities of the DS program. Telling a story with my images was always a major interest, which later turned into telling stories with sequential art. My focus has turned more from fantasy art to sci-fi. Creating images of places around the world has been another challenge I enjoy very much.
Since February 2017 I have published my comic Taiduo online through the Webtoon hosting platform, with a new episode every other week.
Included in my CGI toolbox is Gimp for post-work, which has become more important over time. Now I enjoy combining different artistic forms to make illustrations for comics, character design and book covers.