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  • I thought you would like my creation. I was inspired by this post.

  • I guess i don’t understand what you’re asking.

    To make it from scratch would be a very long instruction list. Primarily you’d need to have the faces as pngs with transparency in HD so you could paste them as layers into the background. That would be easy if you have the faces already. Why not just look for a higher definition image and skip all the work?

    • o i see,,okay thanks

      sorry, my question is not very detailed. totally my bad i mean i just want to edit my photo just like the album cover :)

      pardon my english

      • So you want to convert pictures of yourself to look like this cover? You’re going to want to turn each of the other pictures into monochrome pngs with transparency. You can do that by using the threshold tool. Then you’d change the color of each picture to your desired color. Then you’d paste them onto your background as layers and flatten the image when complete.

  • Steps I think of:

    • Id create a square canvas (1024*1024?)
    • Id create two background layers.
    • Id split each layer in 4 parts with rulers, use the square rectnagle select tool (with magnet on), slect each area and pain it with color backet.
    • Id paint the bottom background with the color of the faces and the front background with the background color (hope this makes sense)
    • Id use the arrangement tool and arrange each image to the center of each quarter
    • Id set each image to grayscale
    • Id use them as a layer mask. Black->transparent. White->opaque. This step has some substeps:
      1. Right-click on the layer with the front background
      2. Add layer mask (full opacity)
      3. Click on the layer with the face and ctrl+c (copy the layer)
      4. Click on the mask of the front layer and press ctrl+v (paste the layer).
      5. It will show the pasted layer as a floatijg layer mask. Press the anchor at the bottom of the layer widget to apply the pasted layer as the layer mask of your front background layer. (Source.)
    • Id use the threshold tool to retain only the most prominent features of the faces by clicking on the layer mask of the front background layer, clicking on the canvas and dragging the two outer sliders towards the middle (maybe Id use a paint brush and an eraser to bring/remove any details). If you cant see the tool either enable it by edit/preferences/toolbox or type "/" and type "threshold".
    • For the text you gotta play with the gimp fonts and text editor, not the most fun thing, but it may work.

    Tada:)

    • wow that is so detailed,,

      what if i already have a photo, that i want to edit just like the album cover?

      so sorry my question is not so detailed.. totally my bad.

      but i think all the steps tou wrote. would help me alot.

      thank you so much

      pardon my english

      • Hm, you might have to recreate it following the steps. The steps are more of a general direction. If you know nothing about gimp, you might want to check a biggeners intro video to gimp by daves media design on yt. Makes good tutorials (just find a recent tutorial, gimp3 has some changes).

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