GIMP Tutorial: Transform Face into Galaxy Silhouette

[Music] yes this is Nick with logos buy Nick's calm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can take a photograph of someone's face and create this sort of a silhouette galaxy type of design using and if you'd like to follow along with exactly what I'm doing in this tutorial I will have these two images linked in the description of the video and if you'd like to know how you can update with these customized icons a link to that will also be in the description of the video so we'll go ahead and get started the first thing we want to do is open up the image of the space galaxy here I'm going to open that with and once we have that open we can go ahead and open up the photograph our photograph of the man here and what we want to do now is isolate the face from the rest of the image and there's various ways in which you can do that but the way I'm going to do that is with the pads tool up here which the pads tool click on that before we do that let's just right click on this layer over here and make sure we add an alpha Channel and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to zoom in on the face area I'm just going to hold ctrl and roll up on the mouse wheel a couple of times and to move around the page I'm just pressing down the mouse wheel and moving the mouse so what I'm going to do now with the path tool I'm going to click right out there plus put a point I'm just going to go ahead and keep clicking and putting points going around the outside edge of the face that we want to crop out now it doesn't have to be precise or exact at all as you see here what I'm doing I'm just being very it's a I'm being very rough about it oops just going around the outside it's okay if you leave some part of the background image in there it's not going to matter that much the the main idea here is to just to isolate the face from the rest of the background go ahead and finish this up and once we get finished creating it just go ahead and press enter on the keyboard and it's going to create a selection and I'm going to zoom back out by holding ctrl and rolling down the mouse wheel and what I want to do now is invert that selection so I'll go to select invert and once I've done that I'll press Delete on the keyboard and then I'll go to select none and what I want to do now is I'm just going to grab the move tool and just bring this towards the center of the page over here what we want to do now is every all of the like this galaxy here the space image that's going to be comprised of all of the dark areas of the face here so we're looking at the hair some of the shadows and stuff like that maybe the gums so what we want to do is create more separation in this photo between the dark areas and the light areas and the first step I'm going to do to achieve that as good of colors levels and I take this Center arrow up here and bring that to the right a little bit just to make the darks a little darker and I'm going to take this arrow to the right I'm going to bring that to the left a little bit just to make the lights a little lighter and that's starting to look pretty good maybe I'll bring that over a little more that's pretty good I'll go ahead and click OK to finalize that and what I want to do now is go to colors desaturate just to take the just to take colors out of there and they're going to give you three different options here you got lightness luminosity average just go by whatever you think looks best based on the particular image you're using I think on this image and by the way what I mean by what what I think looks best what I mean thinks gives you the best contrast between the lights and the darks so I think lightness works the best here so I'll go with that I'll go ahead and click OK and once we've done that we can go to color and threshold and that's going to strip everything down to either all the way black or all the way white and we can take this arrow over here and play we could adjust the the level in which the colors are stripped away and I think right here right about here good level because you still see some kind of detail let me zoom in a little bit you still see some kind of like detail like individual strands of hair and that's that's pretty good that's what you want so go ahead and click okay and now what I want to do is eliminate the white area so I'll go to the color select tool select bicolor which is up here and then I'll click on a part of its selection that's colored in white and then just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of it then I'll go to select none and they're gonna take the move tool and I'm going to position the black the black part of this image over the part of the the galaxy image that I want to take the shape of so I kind of like this part of the image over here where you got these bright blues and it's transitioning to like a like violet and you got a little bit of the you can see like the arm of the galaxy in there so I want I want that to be part of the graphic right there and I like how it transitions to a lighter a lighter shade down here so I'm going to place the graphic right above that area and once I've done that I'm going to go back to the color select tool select bicolor and click on the part of that graphic that has black and everything that's black is going to be selected and now we can go ahead and click on this eye ball up here to turn off the visibility of that layer and then click on the Switzerland layer here and then go to select invert and then print Delete on the keyboard and it's going to delete everything aside from the face image here and actually I want to go back and undo that there's something I forgot to do so let's go to edit undo clear before I do that I want to right click on this Switzerland image and go to add alpha Channel and now when we press delete we're going to get a transparent background because previously we had a white background which we don't want if you're going to create something like this you're going to want the ability to put this on any kind of background you'd like so now that we've done that we could actually create a background for so we're going to select none and I'll grab the move tool and I'll position this towards the center of the page right about there and I want to click on this smile layer up here and just press the lead over here in the bottom right delete this layer because we don't need that anymore and now I want to come over here to the far left and click on the icon it says create a new layer and the selection we want to choose here for layer fill type is transparency and go ahead and click OK and I'm going to create a gradient kind of like what you see what I did here like a white to gray gradient as the background but you can create any background you'd want you could take this image and place it wherever you like for this tutorial I'm going to make like a nice gray gradient here so for that we're going to want the foreground color set as black and the secondary color the background color set is white and then we'll go to the blend tool and for the gradient we're going to want to have well you could choose foreground to background and then you'll want to switch it over here you want to go over to go over this arrow right here that switches it so it's foreground to background and once we go once we've done that we go to shape and choose radial and what you do once you've done that you could just bring the cursor towards the center of the page and click and drag outwards and it'll create that gradient but let me undo that it started from black and went to white what we want is for it to start from white and go to black so I'm just going to reverse that and I'll hit undo I'll go to edit undo and I'll try that again I'll go ahead and click and drag and that's what we want something like that let me zoom out a little bit by holding ctrl and rolling down the mouse wheel it's a little too dark on the edges so I'm going to undo that go to edit undo blend and I'll try that again only I'm going to bring this line further out like that well maybe I'll undo that try one more time bring it further out there and that's a little bit better that's what I'm looking for right there and what I want to do now is take this layer and just click and drag it beneath the Switzerland layer so it's beneath the photograph of the man's face so that should pretty much do it for this tutorial that's how you can go about creating this sort of thing using so if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music] you

Channel: Logos By Nick

Views: 161,078

Keywords: graphic design, learn graphic design, graphic design for beginners, gimp, tutorial, beginner, galaxy, face, logo

Id: cjy7pOvEcBU

Length: 9min 9sec (549 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2017