Glitters
Made for GIMP but made by Dretta on July 31 2008
In this tutorial, you can turn a simple image like this one:
Into a sparkling beauty like this one:
Step .001
Open GIMP and create a new image, the atributes identical to those of the picture you are planning to "glitt-afy". Paste your image onto the canvas. Right click on the "Floating Section (Pasted Layer)" layer on your Layers, Channels, Paths toolbar and select Anchor Layer.
Step .002
Select your Fuzzy Select Tool (the one that looks like a magic wand with a yellow glowy-thing) and click on the area you want to make glittery. I've selected this area:
Step .003
Now that you have your area selected, go to Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change your settings to what I have in the image below.
Step .004
Your image is starting to look more like a glitter now! But now, you need to save the image in a .PNG format, and get started on your next frame. Now what are frames exactally? They're basically multiple images that stabalize the animation. To get the glittery effect, we need to create 2 more frames, following the same steps until Step .003, where you will have to change the Settings to create a different noise effect. The next two should be either 10 numbers higher or lower than the ones in your first frame. After completing 2 more frames, you should have three images like these:
Step .005
If you don't happen to have some shamncy animation program, I reccomend you to use LunaPic. It's a great online animation program. Go to Lunapic.com, and upload your pictures.
Step .006
Now, you need to go to the "Animations" drop-down list. Select "Frame Timing" and it'll take you to the frame timing page. Set your settings to the ones I have:
And save in a .GIF format to preserve the animation. Now you should have something similar to this:
Ta-Daa!!
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Into a sparkling beauty like this one:
Step .001
Open GIMP and create a new image, the atributes identical to those of the picture you are planning to "glitt-afy". Paste your image onto the canvas. Right click on the "Floating Section (Pasted Layer)" layer on your Layers, Channels, Paths toolbar and select Anchor Layer.
Step .002
Select your Fuzzy Select Tool (the one that looks like a magic wand with a yellow glowy-thing) and click on the area you want to make glittery. I've selected this area:
Step .003
Now that you have your area selected, go to Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change your settings to what I have in the image below.
Step .004
Your image is starting to look more like a glitter now! But now, you need to save the image in a .PNG format, and get started on your next frame. Now what are frames exactally? They're basically multiple images that stabalize the animation. To get the glittery effect, we need to create 2 more frames, following the same steps until Step .003, where you will have to change the Settings to create a different noise effect. The next two should be either 10 numbers higher or lower than the ones in your first frame. After completing 2 more frames, you should have three images like these:
Step .005
If you don't happen to have some shamncy animation program, I reccomend you to use LunaPic. It's a great online animation program. Go to Lunapic.com, and upload your pictures.
Step .006
Now, you need to go to the "Animations" drop-down list. Select "Frame Timing" and it'll take you to the frame timing page. Set your settings to the ones I have:
And save in a .GIF format to preserve the animation. Now you should have something similar to this:
Ta-Daa!!
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Look through what's become of her boredom, and eventually you'll find
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