GIMP for 3D Digital Artists

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.