I am new to this forum and have a specific question. I tried to find the answer myself by experimenting but now came to the conclusion i need external help.
I am relatively new to GIMP (watched and worked through one or two dozen of tutorials, experimenting, some of this , some of that) and really enjoy it. What i would really like to do is trying to create shirt designs, namely pretty specific ones. I try to explain:
In the music genre where i feel home at most (Heavy metal and related) thre is a huge scene of shirt bootleggers, that make very old school looking designs. These usually have quite a reduced colour spectrum (4 to 8 colours maybe). To make clear what i am talking about here is an example:
My question is : How would i do this? From a guy i know who is a passionate avid photoshop user and professional graphic designer, i know how he does it with photoshop. He basically first uses threshold on the picture an then somehow colours a layer with a specific colour , then duplicates the picture , sets the threshold higher / lower, colours the next and so on, until those all together make a design like those above.
So i tried this with GIMP but i cannot seem to get past the part of colouring the first layer. i used the threshold feature, coloured all the black parts , but from then on it doesn't work. As far as i know Photoshop has somewhat of a function that you just put on a coloured layer over the picture, but i cannot find anything in GIMP. Maybe with a layer mask?
So : if anyone has any idea how i could achieve this it would be highly appreciated !
Thanks a lot in advance and please excuse if my English is a bit crooked, i am from Germany and it's not my mother tongue
Cheers
Hendrik
Edit: I played around a bit again and made a screenshot so it might be even more clear what i want to achieve. It gets a tiny bit into the direction i want but the problem is still the other colors aren't shining through
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