GIMP Tutorial: Pop-Out Circle Avatars

[Music] this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can create the circular pop-out photo effect that you can use as avatars and and profile pictures and things like that using and this is something I use often myself for my own profile pictures and I've used to throughout my blog posts and and ebooks that I've written if you've consumed that you'll see I often include this sort of design with my work so I'll be showing you how you can do that here with so I'll go ahead and open up a here to get started by the way if you'd like to know how you could update with this new interface I'll have a link to that information in the description of the video the first thing we're going to want to do is import our image into and we're gonna right right click on the layer and make sure you have an alpha channel added where it says add alpha channel if you can click on that if it allows you to go ahead and click on it if not that means you already have an alpha Channel and you're good to go so the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna create a duplicate of this layer where it says right here create a duplicate of the layer and add it to the image go ahead and click on that and we're gonna take the one down here and just turn off the visibility for now and what I want to do is I'm gonna grab the circles and ellipses tool and I want to put a circle going over a portion of the person right here and we're gonna have like like the head and part of the hand sticking out so I'm gonna start the circle and it put the cursor where I want the center of the circle to be which would be right about here and then I'll click and drag and after I start clicking and dragging I'll hold ctrl and shift and if you'll notice it starts creating a perfectly round circle that starts from the center of the mouse click and goes outward and I want to put this circle I'd say right about here is pretty good because this leaves out part of the head that'll be sticking out from the circle and this part of the the hand is well which also be sticking out and once we've done that I'll just go ahead and click enter to create a selection there and then I'll go to select invert and once we've done that we could just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that segment or if you're using Mac you can go to edit I believe it's clear there should be clear somewhere under here yeah there it is clear but everyone else Windows Linux just press Delete on the keyboard and once we've done that we can invert the selection again we'll go to select invert it back and what I want to do now is I want to put sort of like a a white border around the back of this here so I'm gonna create a new layer create a new layer and add it to the image we're gonna choose transparency go ahead and click OK I'm gonna put this layer beneath the pasted layer up here and then I'm gonna go to select and grow and the amount of pixels you should grow this depends on the size of your image I'm just gonna test it out with 20 that's what I used previously okay 20 is pretty good you'll notice the selection grows around the original circle that's how thick the border is gonna be I think that's a pretty good thickness right there so I'm gonna leave that as it is then I'll go to edit fill with background color and if you notice here I have white set as the background color so we'll go to edit fill with background color and now that that's added there so in order to make it so that the head is sticking out of the circle and this part of the hand and the arm down here as well what I'm gonna do is let's go to select none and I want to take our original layer down here and I'm gonna duplicate that create a duplicate of the layer go ahead and click that button and I'm going to turn the visibility of that on and I'm gonna raise this all the way to the top and I'm gonna bring the opacity of that down so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna zoom in over the head right here I'm just gonna hold ctrl and roll up the mouse wheel we want to create a selection going around to the head here and the hand and then delete everything outside of that selection so that we're just left with this here maybe I'll increase that a little more so to do that I'm gonna grab the pads tool which is over here and I'm gonna start I'm gonna start somewhere in here where the part of the our subject is within our circle so right here I'll start I guess right about there and then I'll come up here to where the corner of the ear is and I'll just click and drag to create a curved line I'll take this handle and bring it back in so that closes that out and then I'll just click and drag to create another curve right here and I'll do the same thing I'll put that handle back in there do this over here do the same thing up here we're just clicking and dragging to create a curved line that matches the edge of our subject there do the same thing right about here and I'm just going to go around and do this for the entire segment until it comes back around to the where it goes back into the circle so I'll speed this up and I'll catch up with you then okay so now you can see I've created an outline going around the outside of the subjects head here where we're gonna want to crop out that segment of it normally I would close this back up right here but I also want to include this hand right here as well so I'm just gonna continue this selection going down here and continue on with what else what with what I was doing down here and then I'll finish the shape up so I'll go ahead and outline that and I'll catch up with you when I'm done you okay so I finished outlining everything what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna bring the opacity of the image back up to a hundred percent and if you notice I was playing around the opacity a little bit as I was going around outlining the subject and it may help for you to do that as well sometimes it's better for me to just see what I'm trying to trace if I have the opacity all the way up so what I'm gonna do to finish up the shape I'm just gonna create more points leading back up to the starting point and then once I get up there I'll hold ctrl on the keyboard and click on the starting point to finish it up and then I'll press ENTER on the keyboard to create a selection and once I've done that I'll go to select invert and then press Delete on the keyboard and then we can go to select none and then grab a different tool to get rid of those those nodes grab like the move tool or something you can see we've created our little pop-out effect coming out of a circle now there's one final thing I'd like to touch on that you should pay attention to with your images you notice that there's some negative space here between the forehead and the sunglasses that should be cropped out as well but it's still in there so make sure to go back and crop out your your negative space areas if you have to I'm gonna go in there and just do that real quick grab the crop tool create a line going right there close that in another line going right here another one right here and then I'll just hold ctrl and click on this starting point and I can just drag that line down and adjust the shape of it using the handles press ENTER to create the the shape and then I'll just I'll just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that again if you're using Mac go to edit clear now we'll go to select none I'm gonna press 1 on the keyboard to zoom back out to a hundred percent and I'm actually just gonna grab the move tool I'm gonna hold ctrl and roll down the mouse scroll to zoom out a little bit what we're gonna want to do now is add a background to this so I'm gonna turn off the I'm actually gonna right click on this and go to new from visible I'm gonna create an entirely new layer out of everything you see here and then this new layer I'm going to turn off the visibility of everything else and what I'll do now is I'm just gonna change the the size of the canvas here so we can use that as a background just go to image canvas size and depending on what size is already there it looks like the height is 1280 maybe for the the width I'll use something like 2,400 go ahead and click resize and now I could go to this layer over here this new layer and I'll go to layer Auto crop layer and now I can grab the alignment tool and click on our image and make sure you have it set to relative to the image and I just wanna make sure I have it centered up on the center of the page here like that and what I could do now is I want to choose like a background color if you want you could use a background image you could click and drag that into Inkscape and use it as an image like I did in a thumbnail I'm just gonna use a color I'm trying to go to the color picker up here and find something like maybe like a shade of blue something like that yeah that works I'll go to okay and I'll go to new layer and layer fill type I'll just use foreground color go ahead and choose that click and drag this beneath the visible layer and there you have that let me just get rid of that go to the move tool and there you pretty much have it that's how you can create this circular pop-out photo effect using so if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: gimp, gimp tutorial, photo pop out effect, gimp avatar, circle avatar tutoria, nick saporito, logosbynick, logos by nick

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Length: 9min 31sec (571 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 08 2017