GIMP Tutorial: Disintegration Effect

this is necklace logos by neck comm and in today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to create this disintegration effect using and at any point in this tutorial you could look down at the bottom left hand side of my screen to see which mouse clicks and keystrokes I'm using so I'll minimize this and we will get started here in and to get started you're going to need this image here I'll have the image linked in the description of the video so just go ahead and save that image and open it up with and then you should be starting out with this menu here so oh and by the way I like to work with um I like to work with the window set - I like to go to windows single window mode so if you're wondering why it is the mind looks like that you can just go ahead and click on windows single window mode or you can just leave it as three panels as it comes in to default so so the first thing we want to do here in is I want to make these colors pop a little more if you notice from the thumbnail the colors look a little uh look a little sharper so to do that I'm going to go to I'll go to filters I'll go to colors and levels and when we get this levels menu here under the input levels there's going to be this little arrow to the bottom left you just pull that to the right and if you note you can notice the color sharpening while you do that and I take this arrow to the right over here and bring that to the left a little bit to balance that out and I think that looks a little bit better if you uncheck this preview box right here you can see what it looked like previously and you notice there's a little bit of a difference there I just I just like how those colors look better so we'll leave it like that for this tutorial go ahead and click OK to finalize that and what I want to do now is come over to this layer right click that and go to duplicate layer and then I want to click on this little eyeball icon right here to turn that layer off just to turn up the visit of visibility for now then we'll come over to this layer right here at the original one click on that and we'll go to filters distorts and I warp and in the I war panel we're just going to click and drag on these little parts right here just to drag the image just drag the woman's hair and her and I just used to drag her appearance outward like that if you notice what I'm doing here I'm clicking and dragging this and pulling everything out I want to pull this like towards more towards the edge of the white border inside of it so just go ahead and click and drag and just this may take you a a minute or so click and drag and bring that out I'll bring the face in a little more as well bring that out down there and that should be that should be pretty good we can go ahead and click okay to finalize that and then we have that set we can do now is turn this I returned this layer visibility back on right here now we'll click on this layer and we want to grab the paintbrush tool which is over here and you want to come down here and pick the brush that's called this one right here slats splats OH - you come back to the bottom you'll click on it it'll say the name right there splat so - that's the brush we want and the sides we want to bring the size that up to about 300 sold raise that size to about 300 that's pretty good and so the color we want this to be white let me just click it can be black by default I'm going to click this little arrow to switch it so that it's white now is the for color and actually I want this brush to be a little smaller I'm just going to shrink this down you could hold the bore you could use the bracket keys to shrink it enlarge them where you just come over here this arrow and click down like that I'll start with maybe maybe a little smaller about a hundred and forty that works pretty good and I'm just going to click and drag to put white paint around the edge of our hair like that I'll come down here I'll click and drag as well to do that again and I'll do this one more layer right up right through here like that and when I come through the center and do another one again and then when we get towards the edge we want to basically erase the edge we don't want to see any kind of line there we don't want to see any kind of edge or border we want it to kind of just fade into the white of Speck's there like that that looks pretty good as it is so we'll leave that as it is that looks pretty good that's a good start and we're going to right click on this layer and go to add layer mask and we want to use white and go ahead and click add and what we want to do now is switch this brush switch it back over to black and then now we want to make this brush about 300 so I'll just click and drag it's up to about 300 302 that's pretty good and we want to come around the outside here and just click and drag like that and then come up here a little bit as well and this is using the layer beneath it when we do that that's why we created that i warped layer down there and that creates the effect it creates kind of like the illusion that our head is disintegrating and breaking away into pieces so let me make this brush a little smaller now maybe a hundred and I'll just put a few smaller pieces in there just to give it some depth that's pretty good we can leave that how it is so the next step would now to put put these cracks in the face where it makes it look like the face is like cracking into pieces so to do that I'll have another image linked in the description of the video go ahead and download that and that image is right here I'm just going to click and drag that into there that is we're going to go to the rotation tool which is over here then click on that and just rotate it around so it's going vertically like that go ahead and click rotate to finalize that and what we want to do now is go to colors levels actually no not level them sorry we close out of that go to colors threshold and it's going to strip everything down to black and white what we want to do is get rid of we want to try to get rid of those black those tiny little black specks in there we want to get rid of those as much as possible so I'm going to move this to the right now that doesn't work I'll move this to the left okay that works better that's the left move this once it'll actually know that looks pretty good right there 81 and 255 that should work alright now go ahead and click OK to finalize that and let me zoom back out to zoom in and out I'm holding controls and rolling up and down on the mouse wheel just like we do in Inkscape so what we want to do now is get rid of all of the white inside of there so we'll come over here this lect by color tool and then click on a segment of that image that's white and it's going to select everything that's white and then you just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of it and now you can go to select none and what we want to do now is go to colors or is it invert to make that white and now we can go to the scale tool which is over here and then click on that image and then just hold ctrl and grab one of these corners and scale that down when you move this over to the center over here you want it to be a little bit bigger than her face that's pretty good right there go ahead and click scale and there we have the cracks in the face we need to eliminate some of those as you see here I only have them going through like half of our face because this is the half that's breaking away into pieces and this half hasn't yet done that so we're going to eliminate the right side of those over here so to do that we're going to add another layer layer mask right click that and go to add layer mask a white full opacity go ahead and click add and we want to go back to our brush and for this brush we want to use this one right here which is a hardness of 0 75 and let me zoom in on this a little bit I want to make this brush a little smaller I'm just holding down the bracket key to make that smaller or like previously over here the size is over here I just find it easy to use the bracket key we just want to go ahead and eliminate the white areas where like they shouldn't be where doesn't make sense for them to be like over here now get rid of that get rid of that remove it from her hair come over here I'll get rid of those and like it like I said earlier we wanted just to have it on the left half over here so I'm going to delete I'm going to erase everything on the right half I'm going to get rid of this and get rid of that I'll actually remove it from her lip remove this remove that go ahead and erase everything and the reason why we're using layer mask instead of the array tool is that it allows us to go back and correct if we make a mistake like let's say for example I accidentally erased that well what I could do is I could switch the brush back to white and just paint that back in like that so that's really useful so switch back to black will continue erasing this area erase all of that erase all of that and I'll get rid of this over here get rid of that then I'll press one of the keyboard to zoom back out zoom out a little more let me zoom in let me remove that from her I shrink that brush down remove the white in this uh white crack from her I get that out of there see what else I think that should be pretty good I'll get rid of that and we'll just click on that layer so we can get a full view and that's pretty much it that's how you can create the disintegration effect using so if you have any questions let me know and as always thank you for watching [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

Views: 182,502

Rating: 4.9580975 out of 5

Keywords: graphic design, learn graphic design, graphic design for beginners, gimp, tutorial, beginners, disintegration, effect

Id: kUt2cditN1g

Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 20 2017

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[u/k0decraft]

I just knew this was gonna pop up here.

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Here's a link to Nick Saporito's channel. He makes professional tutorials for Inkscape.