GIMP Tutorial: Slice Effect

[Music] this is NIF with logos by nick.com and in today's tutorial i'll be demonstrating how you can create this sliced effect using so I'll go ahead and get started here in for this tutorial I'm going to use this specific image it's a model image I will have a link to it in the description of the video if you'd like to follow along with exactly what I'm doing here on my screen so the first thing we want to do when we open this image up here with is just right click on the layer and make sure we have an alpha channel so go ahead and click on add alpha channel if that's grayed out and you can't click it that means you already have one you're good to go and what we want to do next is get rid of the background so I'm gonna grab the fuzzy select tool up here and just gonna go ahead and click on the background area it's gonna create a selection around it and just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of it or if you're using a Mac you can go to edit clear and then I'm just gonna click on this little white area here between the neck and the finger and just press delete on that to get rid of that as well and then I'll go to select none so what I want to do next is I want to place a circle over a portion of the head where I'd like to uh where I'd like for the slice to happen so let me zoom in on this area right here just by holding ctrl and rolling up the mouse wheel a couple of times if you'd like to move the page around you can just press down the mouse-wheel and move the mouse like that and I'm gonna grab these circles and ellipses tool up here the ellipse tool and I'm just gonna create an ellipse going over the top of the head right here or over the forehead right here and I want to pay attention to where I have the borders placed so so I want to zoom in on this area right here and just make sure I have it placed near the edge you want it almost exactly to the pixel you don't want it too long you don't want it sticking out too much within and you don't want it in too much either you want to have it like right on the edge like that as close as you can get it and to the site to change the size of these circles you'll notice these little tabs on the sides and in the corners that they highlight the borders highlight yellow and you can move them up and down like that so whoops let me recreate that I'm gonna put that circle right about here and put this up here like that maybe I'll leave that right there and that looks pretty good right there so what I want to do next is create a new layer so I'm gonna click on this down here that says create a new layer and add to the image click on that and I want to name this one circle go ahead and press Enter and I want to fill this in with the color so I'm going to I'm actually gonna fill it in with the gradient so I'm gonna change my foreground and background colors to the gradient I'd like to use so I'll change the foreground to a shade of red like that then I'll change the background to a darker shade of red like that and then I'm going to grab the gradient tool and over here from this menu we want to choose foreground to background like that and for the shape we want linear and once we've done that you just click and drag to create the gradient like that you could hold ctrl so it locks it onto the horizontal axis like that and then just go ahead and press ENTER on the keyboard and it's gonna add a gradient like that and what I want to do next is I want to enlarge the selection of this ellipse here so that it covers the the top half of the head so I'm gonna grab the rectangle select tool and I'm gonna hold shift in the keyboard and just click and drag to create a rectangle going over the top of the the woman's head here and now I'm gonna make sure that the bottom border of this rectangle sits halfway through the ellipse like that and again it's important you're holding shift while you're doing this otherwise it's going to create just the rectangle it's not going to add the rectangle to the ellipse selection like you see here on my screen and once we've done that you can just press ENTER on the keyboard and we have our selection set what I want to do now is take a copy of this take this model image down here and make a copy of that so go ahead and highlight that layer click this button that says create a duplicate of the layer and add it to the image and then just click and drag this copy up here and what I want to do now is click on the original copy and then just press Delete on the keyboard and you're not going to see anything happen on the screen but it's going to delete the top portion of the head from that layer they won't click on our new lair up here and go to select invert and then press Delete on the keyboard again and again you're not going to see anything happen but what happened now is that the head is now sliced into two different layers so I'm gonna go to select none I'm gonna grab the move tool and I'm just going to take the top portion of the head right here I'm gonna hold ctrl on the keyboard and then just slide it to the right like this or you slide it to the left like that and if you notice it's created the illusion as at the top of the heads been sliced off like that one final thing that I'd like to add here is just a little bit of a shadow a little bit of a drop shadow right here just to help sell the effect a little more if you notice here I did this in the thumbnail design I add a little bit of a shadow in there so to do that let me click on the circle layer and I'm gonna add a new layer in there create new layer click that button I'm gonna name this one shadow and I want to set my foreground color back to black and I'm going to grab the paths tool which is over here and I'm gonna start a point right here I'm going to create another point going out here like that and then another point going around the outside through the head right here and then to connect it back to the starting point I'm gonna hold ctrl and click on the starting point like that and then I'll press ENTER on the keyboard to create a selection from it and what I'll do now is I'll go to edit fill with foreground color and now we can go to select none let me just grab the move tool to get rid of those pads and what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna blur this so I'm gonna go to filters blur Gaussian blur and I take the size and just slide that up until it's a good until it's blurred a good amount you can adjust its however you see fit I think right there right about there looks pretty good I'll go ahead and click OK and one final step with the the shadow would be to get rid of the area that's bleeding outside of the model image here we want to cut that out so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to click on this image down here this bottom layer right click that and go to alpha to selection now click on the shadow layer and go to selection I mean select invert and then press Delete on the keyboard and then go to select none and as you can see we've finished we've created our sliced effect using so that's how you can go about doing that if you'd like to add another layer to it like I did here you just pretty much repeat those steps I would recommend merging these three layers first you could right click this and go - we're looking for merge down wherever that is there it is merge down right click that do it again merge down so that each of these are on separate layers and now you could just go ahead and apply that same Afflick that same effect to this layer right here where you'd put another circle fill it in and why not so that's how you can go about doing that with if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music]

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Length: 7min 43sec (463 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 04 2018