{"id":817,"date":"2014-12-29T22:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-01-01T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:17:11","slug":"one-hundred-images-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Images challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

For 2015, I challenge myself to create 100 images using the software GIMP. I got an early start and I’m up to image 4.<\/p>\n

I’m already starting to feel more at ease with the software, and excited about the things it can do. However, I still feel annoyed when I get stuck. There’s so many things I know how to do in\u00a0Corel Painter Essentials that I can’t do in GIMP yet.<\/p>\n

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The background gradient and crescent moon layer are modified from a photo. The blackish vegetation is one of the “texture brushes”, using different sizes of the same brush. There’s 2 layers of vegetation, and I made the tree-ish things in the back layer more faded, using the “opacity” slider.<\/p>\n

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Just messing around with the different “brushes”! I wanted to try each one, but only got 2\/3 of the way through the list before running out of room.<\/p>\n

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This started with a paisley background, which I found\u00a0online (Google images “fabric + blue paisley”).\u00a0To lighten up the left side\u00a0I used the “dodge” tool, and darkened\u00a0the right side with the\u00a0“burn” tool.\u00a0Then I selected an elliptical area and modified the color (hue, saturation and lightness).<\/p>\n

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