Comments on: How I did it: The vines on the wall photo

By: Using Duplicate Layers for dramatic effects in Gimp | GfCS

Using Duplicate Layers for dramatic effects in Gimp | GfCS — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:54:26 +0000

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By: Jafael

Jafael — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:57:54 +0000

I think I've learned more from this entry than I have in the past six months of tinkering around on my own. Wow! I would never have thought a magenta layer would do anything so interesting. I shall have to practice and see what I can get! Great work, as ever.

By: RASL30

RASL30 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:39:14 +0000

Wow, thanks for taking the time to post that!
I have to say, I hated the way the images looked in the middle, but loved the ending photo. I guess you never know what you will end up with! I have often wondered how to play with backgrounds… and now I know ;-) Very cool.
I want to learn more about editing, but **gasp** severely lack the time. Reading your posts saves me a bit of time, so thanks!

By: DM|ZE

DM|ZE — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:37:31 +0000

I love this, thanks for showing us your workflow. I actually like the image more with the color layers as screen, but to each their own. I'm glad to know that others do a lot of testing and experimenting in gimp. I always feel like others just know this is how I want it to look and this is the steps to get it there. It's hard to imagine all the attempts when I see only see the final shot and it looks like that is how it should be. So it's great to see that you work it and revise that work. As for making a dup everytime I like how it looks, would be too confusing to me, but I do like to write down the steps as I do them so that hopefully I can use that later when I want to re-create a similar effect. Thanks for sharing.

By: tpettygirl

tpettygirl — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:04:22 +0000

I love your site; you explain things that make sense to the novice user of Gimp. You have definitely inspired me to keep working at Gimp to get the results I am looking for. Thank you so much for all the time you take with your site, I come here everyday just to see what you have done.