I decided to start a new thread for this, so as to not hijack my own comic. now, by no means is this the only way to do things, or even the best. I fully hope someone can take what I post and improve upon it. I only ask that if my techniques help, use them, improve them, and share your improvements with the rest of us.
Your tutorial was not only very educational and enlightening, but also highly entertaining and enjoyable to read. Your jokes, character speech patterns, and conversations with and responses to the characters were all very well done! You turned a fascinating, but potentially difficult to understand subject into not only a great comic, but an excellent tutorial!
That was the most entertaining GIMP/Photoshop tutorial I've ever read! And now I know! Thanks for sharing this with us, Pol. I may very well opt for this style of explosion instead of the one I recently used, that one takes FAR too much effort to get it right. >_< On another note, people weren't kidding when they said GIMPshop's interface is very similar to Photoshop's.
Congrats! Your are the second person in the whole funnies to habe Alternators Camshaft hey shoukd of been shot it could of been a homage.
Hey Pol. I know this is terribly belated, but I just want to say thanks for posting such an in-depth tutorial. Not only did it show me how to get some nice ka-boom effects for my own comic, but it taught me a hell of a lot about the basic workings of GIMP layers, which I'd been strugging with up until I read this. So thanks for taking the time to share your GIMP knowledge with us all.
Well, I don't know how Pol does his awesome eyeglow, but in GIMP I create a new transparent layer, draw around the eye, fill it with white, then feather that selected area by about 20-ish depending on how big you want the glow to be, create a new layer to go UNDER your white eye, then fill that selection with whatever colour you want the glow to be. The more you fill it, the brighter the glow gets. You can do lasers the same way. Apologies to Pol if I hijacked his thread...
i figured it out lol what i do is select the eye, or the lazer path feather by however much is needed then fill it with the color that the eye/lazer is by using the paint brush then click edit and cut it leaves some of the color there and the middle is white
