Gimp Scrumpled Paper tut

Ok, hello again everyone! Today I'm going to show you how to make a pice of paper that has been crumpled up and then flattened out. This could be useful if you were going to make a school project cover or album cover or whatnot. So, lets get started!
     First off you need to create a file that is 300 by 500 pixels. Then, take the rectangular selection tool and make a rectangle shape inside. This is goign to be our page. Now, get the gradient tool and make it run from white to a light grey. Now, pull it from the top left hand corner to the bottom right. This will  make a nice gradient across it!

I've just done a red background to make the page stand out. Now, take the free select tool and make a triangle with the top corner in the bottom right corner, if you get what I mean! Then, once this is selected, use the flip tool to flip it. Then, make a new layer, and your flipped image will move here. Rotate it so it looks like the corner of the page is folded over.
     Now, go to filters - light and shadow - drop sahdow. Make the options -1 on offset x and 3 on offset y. This will add a nice shadow. Now, select our page layer and click ctrl+f to repeat the shadow option.

You could leave it like this to have a nice smooth piece of paper, but I'm going to show you the other way, which involves making this image look crumpled, like someone has crumpled it up, and then flattened it out.
      So, go to google and take a crumpled piece of paper image, and load it as a new layer over the bottom piece of paper. Hide the folded over piece and it's shadow, and Resize the crumpled paper., and take the rectangular selection tool. Lower the opacity of the crumpled paper and select around the page we did before. Select invert and hit delete. Now, take the free selection tool again, and simply select the bit where it has been folded over.
     Delete this, duplicate the layer and move it to the top. Now, just free select the folded over piece, not the shadow, and click invert. Now delete this and you're done. Lower the opacity of the two crumpled paper layers, and there you have it! A great crumpled and uncrumpled piece of paper!

Gimp - Rubbing out Problem

I've been having a lot of requests recently about a problem some people have been encountering with the eraser tool.
     I have encountered this problem aswell, and thought it might be useful to erase it, lol!
     The problem is as follows. Whenever you try to rub out an image, instead of showing the layer beneath, which happens with the first layer by the way, it colours it in the secondary colour, usually white.
     The solution is simple, and very easy to do. Simply, on the layer yuou are trying to rub out, go to layers - transparency - add alpha channel. This will allow you to rub out the layer to show the layer below.
     This is a very common problem to encounter, seeing as you didn't have to do this procedure in earlier versions of Gimp.
     Hope this helped out a lot of people!

Gimp Graffiti Tut

Right, this is goin' to be a tutorial on how to create realistic graffiti on a wall. It is quite a long tutorial, but I'll try to make it as simple and easy as possible. I find this a really nice effect, so Its well worth the wait. So, first off you need to go to google and type "wall" into images. Just select any wall, but a realtively flat one, not one on an angle, as I'll cover that tutorial another day!
     So yeah, I've got a wall, and I've just pasted and resized it in Gimp.

Ok, so now we need to add the text. What you want to do is use a really rounded font, and write each of the letters in a new layer. This way you can work with them a lot more. I wrote Doctor in a font called: Snap ICT.

     I did this and ended up with the image below.

Now, here comes the difficult bit. Take the select by colour tool, and select the black of the text. Now, on a new layer, go to select, grow, and raise it to 10. Now, get two green colours, one on the foreground and one on the background, and drag it down from the top. Then move this layer below the back one. Now, do this agin, but this time shrink it by 4 and fill it with a gradient of purple.

     Then, with it still selected, select shrink again, by another 4 and hit delete. This gives you a nice ring of purple, and a thick outer ring of green.

Now, merge all the text layers, so you have the wall layer and then the text layer. Now, colour select the black layer again, and on a new layer, run a white to transparent gradient from the top to halfway down the text. Set this layer to around 40% opacity, and merge it down.

Now, on the text layer that we have, right click and go to alpha to selection. One a new layer fill it with a dark grey. I did  3b3b3b. Take the move tool and move this layer down, until you can see the top of the green. Then move it below the text layer, so it looks a bit like a shadow, and merge it down.

Now to make the text look like it is actually on the wall. On our text layer go to filters, map, and bump map. This will open a new window. Select the bump map, as the wall layer, and click ok. You may wish to mess around with the settings, but I didn't. Now this done, simply press Ctrl+F, which repeats this process. Now we have a good graffiti looking wall, and you can finish there. The next few steps are optional, so you don't have to do them.

So now, if you want, you need some splatter brushes, and we're gonna make this look a little better. Take these brushes, and select the purple colour we had before. Now, just make a new transparent lyer below the text and get splattering! Once you've done, colour select the splatters, and on a new layer, run a white to transparent layer from the top. Lower the opacity of this to around 40% and merge it down. And now, just repeat the bump map proccessm and you're done.

Thanks for readin' this tut. Hope this has taught you somehting. If you want to request a tutorial, be my guest! Once again, merry Christmas!