I am a new GIMP user and I have so many questions!

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(12-27-2016, 06:34 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-27-2016, 04:48 PM)God Wrote: So the brushes are just used to draw on the canvas? I am kinda confused. why is downloading brushes important then? also you said sigs use backgrounds. How do I get these backgrounds? Do I download them like brushes/fonts or where do I find them? I understand what you meant generally though and thanks for your help!

From what I have seen a sig is mostly made of:

1. A "render" (aka, main subject), retrieved from the internet (Google images, etc...)
   
2. A background, that can be done from scratch but often retrieved from the internet
   
3. Some text (font is usually retrieved from the internet too, see dafont.com)
   
4. Various artistic additions (clouds, lines, gradients or else, "else" being often added via brushes: splashes, bubbles, lightning, stars...). This part is difficult to describe because this is where the art is. Anyone with bit of technique can slap Boba Fett's helmet and a moody slogan on a galaxy background. But for a canonical sig this would just be the beginning....
   

I get what you mean now thanks! so a brush can you be used to enhance a background on a sig! Do you have any resources to find backgrounds such as dafont.com which you gave me for fonts?  

(12-27-2016, 06:53 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

Quote:...Same questions as I asked ofnuts above but thanks for the help! I get what you mean about fractals but how do I copy paste them from the sites onto the canvas? will a simple copy + paste do or should I create a new layer and then cop and paste. [

As ofnuts says you can get many images, resouces such as brushes, patterns, all sorts of scripts that will generate effects from the internet. Some will just get copied and pasted, scripts you might enter a few variables and get a result.

Do use as many layers as required and save your work frequently as a gimp xcf file, that saves layers, text as text and paths, selections, all sorts that you lose exporting as png or jpeg.

That will get you started but not really original, just assembled.

This one as an example, might not be much good but all mine and took only a few minutes.



Fractal flowers generated in jwildfire, copied, pasted, resized...etc in gimp.
Some drawing ( a path) filled with a gimp pattern.
The background, a Gimp gradient
My brush stamp, the only thing not new, which I made in Inkscape long ago.

All on their own layers so I can easily edit in the future.

best of luck

Thanks Rich! I appreciate all your help!