Glad to be of help. Good work on the tute!
Glad to be of help. Good work on the tute!
Nice Tut! I look forward to trying the stuff out (no time right now)...
This tutorial is a perfect example of why I joined this forum. Thanks!
Nicely done
I've been blundering around layer styles in GIMP for a couple of days now. Nice to get some clarity!
Hope it's ok to post in such an old thread - you said this was aimed at helping people who might have been using Gimp for a while but don't use layer masks because they don't understand them. As someone completely new to Gimp (I installed it 2 days ago), I think you've saved me a LOT of future work.
I'm working through the continent tutorial by RobA and after reading that whole thread, all 39 pages of it, I came across this tutorial. It has helped me already - I have completed the new version of the mountain tutorial by RobA but want one of my mountains to have different colors. It was easy to do by just adding a layer mask over the mountains, duplicating the layer, removing the mountain in question from one layer mask and removing all but the mountain in question in the other layer mask. I was then free to experiment with noise, gradients, bumps etc on the one mountain without affecting the rest.
Considering I'm 2 days into using Gimp, I'm very pleased with being able to to this kind of stuff already - thanks to this and RobA's tutorial!
Well, i was following this tutorial and it was kinda difficult to read, since i have to scroll up and down and change pages, so i suddenly came with the idea of making it a PDF file, so i copied it to word and printed it on PDF, but, it was not enough, so i could not resist the temptation of actually MAKE a PDF version of it, after all, i have used so much your great advices, that im glad that i can do something useful.
As you can see i didn't do something that complicated, i tried to do a simple and readable document for easy use.
1. I used the cartographers Guild Logo, if that's wrong, i can remove it easily.
2. I don't edited the content, but if the author don't like what i did, i can delete the file.
XD
My work is under CC licences, you can see wich one apply in the work itself, if there is no CC logo, you can assume is an: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence
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This is a really helpful tutorial.
I got two of my top-priority list unanswered questions answered,masks and gradients.
Repped and rated 5 stars.
Well, after this tutorial, I'm trading in my eye patch and parrot for a mask!
Thanks for the tutorial. I've been playing with layer masks the better part of the last 2 days, and I see a long and happy future with them. Rated the thread +5!
Back to the GIMP for me now.
Well, I recently realized that I never mentioned how much this tutorial has helped me out and I wanted to step in and remedy that.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write it. I wasn't understanding how to use a layer mask on my own but once I buckled down and went through this process I have to admit I use in every project. I can't tell you how many times I found myself wishing I hadn't erased something and having to recreate it (or carry around a bunch of duplicate layers "just in case" I needed them). Now, it's such an easy thing to modify the mask instead.
If you happen to not quite get the concept of layer masks I encourage you to follow this tutorial and ask the questions until you do. You won't be sorry.
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