Action Cartooning with Ben Caldwell

[shadow]

Is there anyone that would be good enough to look at this photoshop tutorial
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1151725
and explain how to do this in Gimp.
My Gimp knowledge is not quite up to the job.
I am struggling with the blending in stages.

Any imput would be great thanks.

[pencil]

any gimp questions should probably be pm'd to gandalf

[shadow]

Thanks Pencil.

I have done that now so I'll sit and wait.

[Gandalf]

Here I go!

Step 1- Get a picture of a car. (That was easy!)

Step 2- From the link that this guy provides (http://www.filmtotaal.nl/module.php?section=wallpaperview&wid=0317219)
Download a "Cars" image that would fit the picture that you have of a car.

Step 3- Using the Lasso tool select an area around the mouth because you're going to be
pasting this onto your car. You might also want to use the Pen tool, if you know how to use it.

Step 4- Copy the selection that you just made on the wallpaper and go to your
Real Car picture and paste it. Don't anchor it though, keep it as its own layer.
Set the opacity of the mouth to 75. It should look like this:


Step 5- Use all of your different transform tools to fit the mouth to the image

Step 6- Go back to the Cars image and select the windshield area. Make sure
the selection is outside the windshield.

Step 7- Now copy paste the eyes into a new layer on your real car photo and
set the opacity to 75. Now do your best to fit the windshield to your car's windshield. (Whoops! My compy is messing up so I won't be able to show anymore screenshots, sorry! I curse the All-Satan Bill Gates...)

Step 8- Hide your eyes layer and select around the Real Car's windshield. Then go Select/Feather and feather it by about 3 pixels.

Step 9- Now go Select/Invert and in your fake car's eyes layer, press delete.

Step 10- Using a fuzzy eraser, erase around your fake car mouth layer so that
there are no hard edges.

Step 11- Now trim the mouth down some more with a fuzzy eraser

Step 12- Now on your mouth and eyes layer, go to Color/Hue-Saturation and
adjust the color of the mouth and eyes to fit the car.

Step 13- using the clone tool, slowly clone the front of the car into the opening
below the grill where the liscense plate is so that it's all one solid surface below
the mouth.

I think that's it.

[Gandalf]

Oops. I just read your first post. Blending in stages? What do you mean?

[shadow]

Thanks Gandalf that is awesome.

There are some tools that I have not used before like fuzzy eraser and clone tool. Whenever I have tried to use the clone tool it doesn't do anything. I need to do a little more learning.

When I tried to follow the Photoshop version I tried using the hue/saturation but when I started with a red image all I ended up with was grey or purple and I was trying to achieve a sort of off black colour.

I shall have another try with that tonight.

[shadow]

Ah yes........

When I tried translating the Photoshop to gimp I struggled with what you have described as steps 10 onwards.

Have you completed this with a car yourself?

[Gandalf]

A fuzzy eraser is just an eraser with the paintbrush set to a fuzzy circle. Just
go to eraser and click on the dot. Scroll down until you see a fuzzy circle and
click on it.

For the cloning tool, select the tool and go to your image. Hold Ctrl and click
anywhere on the image. Now paint with the tool like you would a paintbrush.
You'll figure it out pretty easily.

For hue/saturation (since you're trying to get a blackish color) adjust the saturation
and not the hue to get black.

[shadow]

For those of you who have happended to come across this post here is what I did in the end.



It took a few attempts, I am still fairly new to Gimp but I think it is OK.

Thanks again Gandalf, for your help.

[First-born]

It came out very well! Great job!

[Gandalf]

Wow! That's better than I could've done!

[Rob the Badger]

I think it looks great. Very nicely done.

[shadow]

Many thanks, there is hope for me yet.