Introduction: How to Make Cool Pages in Gimp
ill show how to make an awesome poster in gimp
Step 1: I Love Gimp So Read These Words
you have to get gimp if you have it skip all this step
1.get the gimp fromGimp.org
Step 2: Use Gimp
2.open gimp and you should see the windows
Step 3: New Powers Go
3.open a new image window i used a portrait shaped photo(the half body in a frame)
Step 4: Themeical
4.pick a theme i used a made up religon called saportism (worshiping gabe saporta from cobra starship)
Step 5: Backgound
look for some thing to make a background i used Filters-> distorts ->mosaic and set your two colors to anything you want this will make a diffrence then set the primatives to hexagons and set all the values to zero except neatness and size and screw with size until you like it then hit okay
Step 6: Distortion
now go to distorts and do newsprint screw until you like it again
Step 7: Poweeeeer
now get a pic and shove it in the corner and then shape it to the right size i used cobra starship
Step 8: Wordssss
now for words use file create logos and pick one i used frosty leters now save your words in the extension .xcf this is important and open them as layers my words were"the church of hot addiction"because that is one of there songs and it goes with religon i also used diff. letters for the word hot to symbolize heat and it looks cool
Step 9: Letters
open your text as layers and delete the backgrounds it'll be floating letters after this place them as needed
Step 10:
your done
6 Comments
13 years ago on Introduction
i was a gimp noob when i did this i was just playing around now i am a gimp god
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
lol i am to
14 years ago on Introduction
you should subtract the background on the picture of the people that way the background is constant
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
while that would be cool i think the crummy quality would have made it harder.
14 years ago on Introduction
this is awesome :) jk jk
14 years ago on Introduction
You need to sort out spelling and grammar, there's a spellchecker built in, you need images for the rest of the steps and you could do with a bit more explanation of everything...