GIMP Tutorial: Striped Background Design

[Leadman1989]

What font is that?

[SindoDarkLady]

Thank you so much for sharing!!You are awesome!!

[candoitnow1]

WOW !!! you make it so easy to follow and understand. I'm very new to all this And up till 6 months ago never even touched a computer at all. So have been self taught. I'm amazed with myself and what I can now do. But love to watch alot of the tutorials and yours are wonderful so THANKS HEEPS KEEP EM COMING !!!

[Babyshaking]

Awesome work, it's a shame that you aren't so active anymore, you have some of the best GIMP tutorials on YouTube.

[kakashigirl100]

I have a question. The first time I attempted to do this tutorial, it worked perfectly fine, but, I'm trying to do it for the second time, and now I'm having difficulties. At 2:32 where you set the layers mode to "soft light" the grunge doesn't appear at all and the colors I picked for my stripes are still a solid color. No change. I did everything correctly according to your tutorial. I even tried reinstalling GIMP in order to fix it, but sadly that didn't even work. Can you help me? Thanks.

[monsoonami]

@kakashigirl100 Can you post the "HTML notation" for the colors you used in your stripes? (For example, see the annotation at 0:46) If you used colors like "ff00ff" or "0000ff", then I know what the problem is. (Actually it's not a "problem", but rather a side-effect of the way the Soft Light layer mode works.)

[kakashigirl100]

@monsoonami I was using ff0000 and 000000. Red and black.

[monsoonami]

@kakashigirl100 That's what I expected. If the Red, Green, and Blue components of your colors are all either completely on (ff) or completely off (00), then the Soft Light layer mode will have no effect. When a black and white layer (such as the texture in this tutorial) is set to Soft Light, it causes the RGB components of the image beneath it to be "pushed" toward the extremes (either ff or 00). So if your colors are already at the extremes, Soft Light won't affect it. (continued in part 2)

[monsoonami]

@kakashigirl100 (part 2) However, you don't have to use the Soft Light layer mode to complete this tutorial. Try experimenting with other layer modes like Hard Light, and adjust the opacity to your liking. Or you could try using colors for your stripes that are less "pure." For example, instead of pure red (ff0000), maybe try something like df1b0b. And instead of pure black (000000), maybe try a very dark gray like 0d0d0d.

[kakashigirl100]

@monsoonami Okay, I'll try that, thank you very much for your time and information. I appreciate it. =)

[Leadman1989]

@kakashigirl100

Also, try overlay.

[laqaunza]

<3 the tut. Thanx

[MrOnyxWolf]

This is definitely good.

[sabre185th]

Thanks Monsoonami - great tutorial pitched at great level You packed alot of content into a short tutorial,. I picked up loads of tips by rewatching and listening hard!!. Love the easy drop shadow using gaussian blur and move.

Keep them tuts coming!

[onbeyondzebrabydrs]

I love how even with this really pink product you add a bit of grunge to the back, I have a question from the color change video though, how do I save the script to my gimp scripts file, I've tried a billion times and it's driving me crazy!

[XxElegantTragedyxX]

Fjfvfrjdbel!!! Thank you so much! You have no idea how much I was struggling. I tried to find stripe brushes and couldn't and then I tried lassoing each individual stripe, but they all came out slightly uneven. I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a spork. Now this took me about two seconds and it was perfection. My only regret is not finding your video sooner. Haha! ^_^'

Incredible tutorial! ^_^

[monsoonami]

@XxElegantTragedyxX Cool, glad I could help. You're not the first person to have a hard time figuring out how to make stripes in GIMP, which is why I made this tutorial. Of course there are other ways to do it, but this is one of the easiest I've found.

[MrSeaPanda]

Awesome tutorial, best channel I've seen on Youtube so far.

[VibeeeHD]

when I try the black bucket fill nothing happens :( Why?

[poptheman1]

@VibeeeHD

you probably selected the wrong layer.

[anaarkaliix]

Amazing!

[ZemoraARTS]

Hey so what is better for blending. Using g colors to alpha or what u used in this tutoriol

[monsoonami]

@ZemoraARTS Sorry. I'm not sure what you mean by "what you used in this tutorial".

[ZemoraARTS]

@monsoonami llike if i have a optical flare with a black background .. should i lower capcity or colors to alpha

[monsoonami]

@ZemoraARTS You should try both and see which one looks best for your particular image. If you want to completely get rid of a black background though, color-to-alpha would work better than just lowering the opacity, but just setting the layer's mode to "screen" would be even easier.

[FusionsStudio]

Thank You Great Tutorials I Subbed

[iTiffany1000]

Wow, this helped SO MUCH! Thanks!! ^^

[mskiara18]

This is really helpful :)

[TheMushroomville]

amazing tutorial...

[222devious]

GIMP Tutorial: Striped Background Design

[DirtyDean0]

@222devious why did you comment this

[pigcatapult]

I've only seen two so far (this and the splatter brush one), but your tutorials seem pretty cool. *subscribes*

[iMKraZyyyyy]

How can you make this diagonal?

[monsoonami]

@iMKraZyyyyy To make the background stripes diagonal, first create a new layer above the solid color background layer. Rotate the layer 45 degrees (or however much you want). Make sure you enter the EXACT value for the "Angle" in the box that pops up when you use the rotate tool. Then create vertical stripes on the layer in the same way as in the video. Finally, rotate the layer back by the negative of the angle you used before (-45 degrees).

[Mr90027]

I LEARN ALOT FROM YOUR VIDEO TUTORIAL.THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[DarkFlame7755]

Turn the volume up. I have mine all the way up and I can still barely hear you.

[etpiersel]

I love all your work. Subscribed.

[MultiGimpTutorials]

kinda copied my background...

[monsoonami]

@MultiGimpTutorials Just because it has vertical stripes? I'm sure a million people have made backgrounds with vertical stripes before you. :P

[MultiGimpTutorials]

@monsoonami lol I was kidding. I love the tutorial!

[paradise53230]

@monsoonami nice comeback lol

and love the tutorial and the videos I hope you making some more videos :)

[Xl0n3lyX]

thank you so much for making this video :O

you are awesome :]

[CaseOfMoment]

Realy good :D

[johndoe8915]

thx dude, made also one, looks very nice ;)

[diginin1974]

Nice! Thanks.

[dOOnLoL]

Good tutorial

[kimo921]

Great vid man!

I really like this one. I might try to modify it for a new channel BG. =D

Thanks for Posting!

Peace.

[sool78]

Nice job Dude! Thanks for your tutorials. By wathching them I get insipred.

[rockguitarist321]

Very good!

[IncrediblyGenius]

Nice Tutorial man! :)