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MOTIVATION / INTRO
In this desktop
background tutorial I
will show you how to
create a hot wallpaper
with Angelina Jolie. She
is surrounded from and
standing in hot flames ;)
TUTORIAL DETAILS
► Category: Photos /
wallpapers
► Written by devvv
► Created on Aug 19, 2006,
last updated 10 months ago
► Time to reproduce: ≈45
minutes
► Tested with GIMP 2.3.10
This work by Bernhard Stockmann is
licensed under the Attribution-
NonCommercial 3.0 Unported terms.
1
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look for “Angelina Jolie”,
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 view large images. You’ll
find this picture pretty
easy. Save the picture
and open it up in the
GIMP.

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2 First of all we’ve to mask 6168 reg. users

Angelina (free her body 151 news articles
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There are many ways to
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do this, one easy way is 2 contests, 28 submissions
to use the paths-tool. 46615 forum messages
Click B, thats the hotkey
for the bezier-paths-tool.
Check the “Polygon”- 41 identi.ca followers
Option. Duplicate the 676 Twitter followers
picture and make the copy
invisible by clicking the
eye-icon in the layers-
dialog.
In the layers-dialog
activate the background-
layer, click right and
choose “Add Alpha-
Channel”.
Your layers should look like this now:

3 Be sure to have the

Paths-Tool active. Now

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 3 start to click in the left
bottom (where her hand
is). Zoom the picture in to
300%, now click in small
intervals along her skin.
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When encountering edges
do very small click
intervals. do this for the
whole picture. First only for the outer part.

4 When you finished you

need to hold CTRL and
click the first point you
set. This is to complete
your path – it is
completed as seen on the
picture below.
If you did some points
wrong or change anything
in the path you can do
this now by moving the single points. By holding CTRL and
scrolling the wheel on your mouse you can zoom out/in. After
you’re satisified with your path hit ENTER and the path becomes
an active selection.

5
The part is now selected.
Hit CTRL+I to invert the
selection or go to
Selection / Invert and
remove the selected part
(hit DEL):

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 6
Now repeat step 3 with
the inner – not yet
transparent – part of the
picture.

7 Angelina (freed from the

background) should now
look like this:

8 Move her to the right,

then go to Layer / Layer
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 8 to picture size. Create a
new, empty layer and fill
it black. Move the layer to
the total bottom in the
layers-dialog.

9 Now we need to some

inner glow to her body!
- Add a new transparent
Layer above the body
layer
- Set #ff7200 as FG-color.
- rightclick the layer with
her body (layers-dialog),
choose “Alpha to
Selection”
- Select / Shrink: 5px
- Select / Feather: 20px
- Selection / Invert
- select the just created layer
- Edit / Fill with FG-Color
- Selection / None
- rightclick the body-layer again (layers-dialog) and again choose
“Alpha to Selection”.
- Selection / Invert
- activate the orange layer and cut the selection.
You should now have a inner glow on her!

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 10
Next we need a strong
drop shadow.
- Filter / Light and
Schadow / Drop Shadow
(in GIMP 2.2 this filter is
found under Script-Fu)
Radius: 60-70
Color: #ff6000
Opacity: 100%

11
To make the glow more
visible duplicate the layer
2 times.
Another way to get a nice
glow is:
- Alpha to Selection from
the body-layer
- Selection / Expand: 5-
10px
- create a new layer, move
it behind (below) her body
in the layers dialog
- fill the layer with any red
or orange color
- deactivate the selection
(SElection / None)
- choose Filter / Blur /
Gaussian Blur and blur
the layer pretty much until
you’re satisfied!

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 12
Now we gonna duplicate
her face and move it to
the back, lower the
opacity, so that it can be
very little seen.
- Press Shift+T to get the
Scale-Tool active.
In the popup-dialog set
the chains to be linked!
Set 2000px as new width.
Click OK. Then move the layer directly above the black layer in
the layers dialog.

13
Now we let her fade a bit
into the black
background. Press F (free
selection tool) and make
a selection as seen on
the picture.

14
Then click Selection /
Feather: 450px.
Delete the selected part.
- Selection /None

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 Optional you can also use
layer-masks if youre
familiar with this
technique.
Now lower the opacity of
this layer until you’re
satisfied.
Optional you can colorize the layer now (Colors / Colorize)

15
Next we make the picture
pretty hot ;) Open your
browser (oh, damn I
gueass it is already open
;)) google images search
and search for a cool fire,
or you download my fire
(Tutorial-Details to the
right).
- Open the fire.
- Selection / All
CTRL+c top copy alls
switch to our picture, press CTRL+v to paste and click the “add
layer”-button in the layers dialog. Then you should have the fire
on a seperate layer.

16
Colors / Color to
transparent. (in GIMP 2.2
this is found under Layers
/ Transparency / )

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 17
The next step is totally up
to you. Play around with
the fire, duplicate the fire-
layer a few times, some
of them give in front of
Angelina, some put
behind her. Transform
each layer, rotate, scale,
do as you please until
you’re satisfied with it.
Use the Erase-Tool with a
big faded (soft) brush to delete certain pieces and fade the
seperate fire layers to look like one peace.

18
Finally we want her glow
very softly, we want to
strenghten the shine.
- Duplicate the body-layer.
- Flter / Blur / Gaussian
Blur: 40px
- Set the layer-mode to

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 “overlay”. The layer modes
dropdown menu is found
top to the opacity-setting
in the layers dialog.
Optinal you can use the selective blur instead of the gaussian to
preserve some sharp countours.
Thats it! ;) Have fun doing your own wallpapers.

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Joel C
8 months ago

in gimp 2.6 step 16 is under colors/color to

alpha

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maija
about 1 year ago

I figured out step 12, no need to worry. :)

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maija
about 1 year ago

I had uploaded GIMP few days ago and I'm

trying to make hot wallpaper with flames.
From steps 1 to 11 went fine but I'm now
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 stuck at step 12 and can't get past it. I can't
seem to duplicate Angelina's face and move
it to the back. How exactly it works?

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hubert
almost 2 years ago

Seems like i got no talent at all^^.

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akshay
almost 2 years ago

good

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Darlingpresley
about 2 years ago

i cant find the colur to transparent

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggg

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dominika
over 2 years ago

this is awesome! but i kinda have problem

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 with step 13. i don't know how to scale just
face the way you did it. instead i end up
scailing the whole body. also on which layer
am i supposed to do it on?

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fitroh
over 2 years ago

i'am ready

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vipin
over 2 years ago

hhhhhhhhhhiiiiiii

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Simon
almost 3 years ago

im sorry buy i really need help for around step

9 when activate orange layer i click the eye
but but my whole back ground and the glow
turns orange why???

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support
about 3 years ago

did you select the right parts? all but her

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 face? did you do step 14 with the
colorization?

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xXx
about 3 years ago

stuck at step 13 it wont feather like yours

does!! PLEASE HELP!!

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triki
about 3 years ago

awesome tut !!!

Could possibly go into tad more detail on the
fading option :D
big fan of Angie :D

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Bob
over 3 years ago

stuck at step 12...when i scale i get a

floating transformation in my layer
dialog...wat do i do from here?

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Thrrb
over 3 years ago

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 never mind i figured it out ^____^

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Thrrrd
over 3 years ago

im having problem with step 9 inner glow,

insted of inner glow i get the background
color oransje???

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Rhoda
over 3 years ago

hi guyz a got a photoshop but its da old

version itz like photoshop 6.0 da pblem is i
dnt knw how to use it is it possible if u guyz
can help mhe 2 use it? please and thank
you@@

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timmy332621
over 3 years ago

Sorry i already figured out

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 timmy332621
over 3 years ago

Hi
I stuck the hole time at step 10
when i use dropshadow the image becomes
bigger but the layers dont do anything
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IndianWarrior
over 3 years ago

Great work! I really enjoyed

it.

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wallpapers
over 3 years ago

it amazing! really great work!

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basi mon
over 3 years ago

i didnt undrstand anythng! plz help me

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PhazedReality
over 3 years ago

Man..its impossible to do simple things, iv

got to pirate a copy of photoshop, i tried,
honest I did.

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PhazedReality
over 3 years ago

I still can't get the image by itself, delete

and backspace dont work and cut just makes
the area white but doesn't actually delete
that space from the image.
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PhazedReality
over 3 years ago

I found the eye, im slowly getting the hang of

this. I scaled a layer to larger than the image
fits, how do I fix that :/

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devvv
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Ztoph
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over 3 years ago
Ah well, I figured out the first part, its
"duplicate layer" not "duplicate". Still don't
have an 'eye' next to layers.
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over 3 years ago
SO, im stuck on #2...
when I duplicate, it opens a new copy of the
image, it does not create a new layer. Also,
there is no eye next to my layers. Also, I cant
remove the selected part on step 5, but lets
take this one step at a time. Help please :(
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over 3 years ago
I've updated step 9. It should now be
possible for all ppl to get this right ;)
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 really nice tut. but you didnt
chance the select/fade
thing.

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kyu
over 3 years ago

oh my attachment didn't go through

apparently, damn, nevermind, the image is at
http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/11/39/20/16/grace_12.jpg
:P

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kyu
over 3 years ago

modded it :P just a layers>>colours>>colorize

on the flames' and "aura" layers, but imo its
damned efficient if you ask me :D
kinds of kills the "hot" part though :)

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devvv
over 3 years ago

not bad at all, kyu ;) a little more time with

gimp and your will look fantastic!

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kyu
over 3 years ago

@ Rich, you can also skip step 9 and try the

method described in step 11 to get the glow
:)
(btw @ devvv, nevermind, i found out why my
member for over 3 years flame looks weird compared to yours :P)

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kyu
over 3 years ago

think i got it :) except my

flames look kind of weird,
but that can be fixed :) nice
tut btw ^_^
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Rich
almost 4 years ago

Hi, I'm pretty new to this and I keep getting

stuck on stage 9 - I have tried many time and
all I seem to do is shrink the image and fill
the rest of the layer orange - so I get left with
a slightly shrunken image and an orange
screen - any ideas where I am going wrong, I

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 can't work out what I'm doing wrong - I
suspect something in layer selection

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devvv
almost 4 years ago

make sure you have correctly selected the

layer with her body when you make the drop
shadow. also make sure that nothing else is
selected!

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Kenned
almost 4 years ago

Cant get past 10... have tryed 10 times to

get the extra glowing effect but when i do as
it says it just open a empty Drop Shadow
layer..
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Sunil
almost 4 years ago

i like this v. much

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 elberry
almost 4 years ago

hi good i happy

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praKash
about 4 years ago

it's too good

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Christian
about 4 years ago

When I am at the step where I click DEL to

delete the selected area, it does not work.

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Rhoxie
about 4 years ago

a need help plz...i'm trying 2

undersdand diz but it
doens't work on mhe....

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 okok very good

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dch
about 4 years ago

for some reason,when you said to invert and

then hit delete,it didn't work for me but I did
everything the way you said so what went
wrong?

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Gimp Noob
about 4 years ago

Step 16. In version 2.2.17 (windows) I tried

Layer/Transparency then what is the next
choice... None of them seem to give me the
shown effect you stated.

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devvv
about 4 years ago

just move the layer tht contains the fire under

the layer with her masked body.

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 lil one
about 4 years ago

ummm im having problems putting the flames

behind her.
im kinda new at this.
So any help would be deeply appreciated.
HEEELLLPPP!!!!!!!!

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devvv
over 4 years ago

Ah, my fault - its called Select / Feather. You

should have that! Sorry... I changed it in the
tutorial now.

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Dan
over 4 years ago

Thanks!
One problem for me. I cannot find select/
fade in GIMP. Looked everywhere, all I can
find is Fade Outline in Script-Fu, I don't know
if that creates the same effect.

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 cicero
over 4 years ago

Não conseguir fazer o efeito final.preciso de

ajudar.

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yaser
over 4 years ago

heloo thank you

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tyree
over 4 years ago

wow i always wanted something like this

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