Quick and dirty glowing cloud tutorial (GIMP)
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:53 pm
Hello all, I was mucking around in Gimp working on a skybox for a Jedi Outcast map and I discovered a technique to make quick and easy nebula-like clouds.
Alrighty, First off, create an image of whatever dimensions you want and fill the page with black.
Next, create a new layer and decide what colour you want the clouds to be. I'll do red (#FFFFFF) for this tutorial. Fill the second layer with this colour and set its opacity down to about 7.4
Create a new layer and use filters -> render -> clouds -> solid noise. The critical options here are randomize and turbulent. Having a higher detail presumably makes sharper clouds (I haven't fiddled with this yet).
Set the layer to "Soft light" on the layers dialogue, which will leave you with something like this:
Create another layer and generate some more clouds, Ctrl-F should be sufficient here if you ticked Randomize. Set the layer to "Divide" and there you go!
Hopefully this is useful to someone besides me.
Alrighty, First off, create an image of whatever dimensions you want and fill the page with black.
Next, create a new layer and decide what colour you want the clouds to be. I'll do red (#FFFFFF) for this tutorial. Fill the second layer with this colour and set its opacity down to about 7.4
Create a new layer and use filters -> render -> clouds -> solid noise. The critical options here are randomize and turbulent. Having a higher detail presumably makes sharper clouds (I haven't fiddled with this yet).
Set the layer to "Soft light" on the layers dialogue, which will leave you with something like this:
Create another layer and generate some more clouds, Ctrl-F should be sufficient here if you ticked Randomize. Set the layer to "Divide" and there you go!
Hopefully this is useful to someone besides me.
thats realy cool I need some thing like that for one of my units.
wate which version of Gimp are you using mine dose not have the same tools.