[GIMP] Full Grunge Sig Tutorial (No Brushes)

[Final Fantasy Bandit]

If anyone has seen this on gimptalk.com, I am ripping it off myself

Tutorial:
Ok this is what it is gonna turn out like:


Open a blank canvas and choose your gradient tool. Set the mode to difference and the shape as Bi-linear, don't change anything else. Click and drag until you get a weird patern. Duplicate this layer and go to filters>edge detect>edge. Then set the layer mode to overlay and merge it down. Duplicate the layer again and now go to Layer>colors>invert. Now press shift F and click on the image, this should flip it. Set the mode to overlay and merge down.
(Hope you got all of that)
you should get something like this:


Now duplicate this layer and go to filters>noise>pick. Push the 2 bars up to 100 and then click ok. Once that has finished go to tools>color tools>colorize. Play around with it until you roughly get the same colour as the main colour of your render. Set this layer to over lay:


Ok make a new layer and paste your render on it so many times there is nothing left visible other then it. Go to filters>blur>gaussian blur and blur around 18 X 18 pixels. Set the layer to overlay:


Now put your render onto a new layer. Duplicate it and then go back to filters>noise>pick. Make sure the bars are still on 100 and then click ok. Set this layer to overlay:


There's that done.

For my text I just got the text tool, wrote what I wanted it to say in white and then I duplicated the layer and went to filters>glass effects>glass tile. Then I clicked ok to the automatic settings.Then go to filters>blur>guassian blur. Make it a 1 X 1 pixel blur. Set the layer opacity to 60%-ish. Then you make the glass tile layer below the normal text layer.

For my border I just made a new layer selected all then dumped in black went to select>shrink. I shrunk it by 1 pixel then hit ok then pressed ctrl X.

Oh well, if you like it please tell me

[ZeldaMaster#1#1]

I would love to learn to use GIMP. But the site won't let me download it.
It says Windows cannot use a Window GIMP program.


Edit: I like the tutorial a lot. It's an excellent way for starters like me.

Edit: I cant change the shape to Bilinear, WHY?