17 That the splash screen looks like a real splash screen we have to add some text now.Use the text tool and write.the particles are then copied to the layer below.Darken the image if you enjoy more contrast/color images, use Color / Curves for that. 16 – In the layers dialog rightclick the particle layer and click “merge down”.Doing that the Shining/Glowing will be enhanced. 15 – Create a new layer and paint the “particles” in the upper left part of the image and also on some other bright parts (as you like it)- Set the layers mode to “Dodge”.See the image for more detail: Make a selection at “Pressure/Opacity”, Random/OPacity and Random/Size. Using them you can adjust size, opacity and randomness of the pained brush. Excellent for this are the new brush dynamics (available since GIMP 2.6). We would like to create the illusion of many lightning particles on the brighter parts of the picture.Best used for this is the sparks brush. 13 We’re pretty finished already and we want to continue working on a copy of the current state of our image.To do this:.12 – Activate the colors layer: Colors / Hue-Saturate: Move the saturation ruler to +50.– Move the copy between the colors layer and the original background (if it is not automatically there) – I draw a selection that includes also some small parts ofthe blue/green color. (Tip: You can transform the background layer, or flip it, rotate it… whatever you want until you found a nice part to cut out.) – Choose any part ofthe picture but the upper left part is pretty nice I think. 10 – Press SHIFT+C to use the Crop tool.

Don’t worry – this will be enhanced soon. The yellow part should glare/shine a bit already.

9 – Filter / Blur / Gaussian Blur: 300px.Set the layers mode to “Overlay”.

Paint the yellow on the lighter parts of the background layer. Then use another color like orange or red, paint close by the first yellow dots. choose a big brush size (scale it to 10,0).

8 To get smooth colors that flow together we will first paint some color on the canvas and blur these colors afterwards.- Create a new and transparet layer.So it is now time to get some color into our image. 7 Now we got some really smooth waves.– Filter / Map / Fractal Trace (Use the Values of the picture below) And that is why we can easily transform our pic into a repeated fractal now. That a part can be repeated nicely we’ve just used the seamless-filter. Tip: Before I told you how you can imagine a fractal in a good way (in the graphics environment). Doing this will make your picture look evenly distorted and nice waves will be created. 6 In this step our main goal is to get nice and smooth waves into the image.We’re going to transform our picture into a fractal now.You can create seamless transitions with it. Doing this makes it possible to put copies of the image to the right/left/top/bottom without seeing any border.

After that repeat the filter by pressing just CTRL+F

4 – Press CTRL+M to merge the visible layers into one layer.- Filter /Blur / Motion Blur: 200 / 20.

(The layers mode drop down is found in the layers dialog above the opacity ruler. – Filter / Render / Clouds / Plasma – use the preset settings and press OK Otherwise – if you clicked something – press the reset button.Īctivate the “Fractals” tab. To create a fractal in GIMP you can use the built-in fractal explorer. If you zoom into a fractal the same part is viewed again, and again – infinite repeats.

2 To create really varied light and dark parts in the image we’re gonna use a combination of clouds and fractals.tip: Fractals are objects that are repeated in itse lf.

Don’t be afraid – the splash screen will be cropped later

Gimp drawing lightning