GIMP Tutorial : Glowing Neon Lines Effect

hello everyone how is it going in this tutorial  we are going to create a glowing line effect in GIMP let's dive into it! alright  open up an image in file > open and choose this   click convert. and now we're going to turn this image  darker for the final result so just duplicate this  layer, click this icon and go to color > exposure okay just turn down a little around this and hit okay just hide for now you can click  this eye icon, so next thing to do we're going to   create the glow line effect click this create new  layer and name it .. and on this layer we're going   to create a doodle with paint brush tool click  this icon or the shortcut is P set the size to 25   and the hardness to 50, you can  change the color to some of these   light blue color, hit ok. start from  here you can click and drag like this and next on this part it's okay not to be perfect when you follow  this part because it's a doodle concept   just keep it clean and simple but a little messy next we're going to create  the glow for the right shoe   in the sole part so just create new layer  and name it.. select it with bezier tool press B follow the shape when almost finished you can hold CTRL you see this chain icon, then click. and press  ENTER. we will create a selection then fill   it with the light blue color you can go to  edit > fill with foreground color deselect it in select > none do the same for the left shoe   now this time we're going to create the  glow line effect duplicate this layer just rename it to and place it below the line and on this  layer you can change the color to white by   going to color > desaturate > desaturate first let's make it a black and white hit okay   and then still in this layer go to color > curves  just make it up till it become this white color click ok, on this clothes glow layer make it  blur in filter > blur > gaussian blur   just make it up until you  see the glow effect like this click ok it's same method for the right and left  shoe all right so just going to duplicate this let's see in the darker  background you can turn on this create new layer and name it.. glow just hit ok  and place it below the original image in here   we want to create the glow effect to  this ground so with paintbrush tool you can click this icon or the shortcut  is P and try to increase the size and also we can increase the  aspect ratio to make the brush   ellipse like this. reduce the hardness to 0 reduce the size a little around this and just brush it change the layer mode to Grain Merge  and reduce the opacity a little try to add more in here next we are going to reveal some part add layer mask in this layer right click > add layer  mask > white full opacity then hit add brush to the skin you can swap the color to black just brush it here and this part and this too.. we can use the  dodge tool if you want to make it more brighter   to here or the shortcut is SHIFT+D make sure you choose the dodge   and this to the midtones adjust the size and make sure you work in this  layer not the mask layer but   in this original layer and try to brush it now last thing for these buildings so just create  new layer and name it .. use the bezier tool press B   and just follow the shape and after you finish it with move tool click  this icon. your path is saved to these path tabs   you can click this to make it visible. this is the path you made before   so just hide it in layer tab with  bezier tool again press B and do next okay let's see in the path tabs. click this to make it  visible and this for the left shoe and right shoe   just hide this. make sure we work on this  building layer and go to path tab again on this   path layer you can swap the color and  change it to some of this pink color   click ok and right click to stroke path and  change the line width to 20. and the line style   just make it around it make  sure you click this icon   and click stroke. click move tool so it will  create a stroke for this path. okay do the same after that you can do the same duplicate the  building layer and rename it... then place it below   don't forget to hide this path layer so you can  see clearly what happened on this building line layer   change it to white color in color > desaturate > desaturate again   and click ok and now make it white  in color > curves just make it up and click ok and on this building line glow you  can go to filter > blur > the gaussian blur just make it up feel free we can add more elements   you have learned something new how to create a  glowing doodle concept art with paintbrush tool   in GIMP. i think it's a really best result  on the darker background. don't stop learning, i'm Zakey from Zakey Design, create something good today! thanks for watching

Channel: Zakey Design

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 27 2021