Something to Try - GIMP ONLY

[tradedemon]

Looked like a cool tutorial so something to try for you GIMP users out there 8)

http://howto.nicubunu.ro/gimp_rain_animation/

There are some other good basic tuts on the site too, so worth a look.

[noobie]

Cheers for that trade, ill have a play now :D

[noobie]

Ok, now im stressing at it haha, so ill give it another try later :lol: :lol:

[tradedemon]

Remember to show us the end look if you get it finished :)

[noobie]

Hehe, i will do lol, ill carry on with it tonight haha

[gromit]

Same effect but for photoshop!!

http://www.trap17.com/index.php/animated-rain_t33301.html

..::gromit::..

[tradedemon]

I have to say the rain effect really looks neat.. Im really obsessed with how cool it looks.. lol... Ah maybe its just me..

[CloWn]

my first ever anything!!! I feel so accompished! Thanks alot for the tutorial, it's awesome as!

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd106/hughesy777/strapzrain.gif

[lokifeyson]

cool! :D

[CloWn]

haha, it's pretty terrible but I feel special coz it's my first! :D

I was just reading the 'how to make a sig with GIMP' one and I made the thing 350x120 then I had no idea what noobie was talking about <=|

[lokifeyson]

lol

[noobie]

haha i do tend to ramble on lol....thats a really cool attempt, nice one

[redruM]

[With Background Was Here]

Here's my shot at it. First time doing anything with gimp or art creation so!

Sorry if it's inappropriate pictures lol. I don't think it turned out too great, buet for a first try I have a feeling of success. :lol:

[redruM]

Ooh. I also incidentally left the background in!

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e30/xCharlesx/sexy-1.gif

A little better. I just didn't use enough layers or maybe I went gung-** on color levels. I don't know.

[CloWn]

yeah dude, you have the gist of it, the animation you have going there is actually, honestly a pretty cool looking one, if you were looking for the more fluent 'rain' effect however, make sure you use 4 or 5 layers with the same settings.

If you just want a light evening drizzle you can drop the angle and slow the animation down, if you are looking for the face smashing monsoon rains you can increase the angle slightly and stack the 'rain'.

Stacking and making the rain fluent is really easy once you have the taste for it =). First off you make the copies of your base, for every copy make a new transperant layer for it. On every transperant(splin?) layer do the noise smudge blur steps. Once you have done that to all of your transperants you give it a test drive by merging the transpernat layers down on to a base copy. DO NOT DO THIS TILL YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR STEPS Once merged down, the only way to unmerge is to Ctrl+Z which will delete any work after the merge!

Now you should be looking at a pretty dark, misty looking signature, play it back and see if you like the flow, if you want it heavier then all you hafta do is Ctrl+Z to unmerge and then repeat the steps as many times as necisary to transperant layers! =D

Sorry for rambling on and probably not making any sense, but I like animation, tis my friend ^_^

[diesel]

daaaam redrum the chick on the right OMG OMG OMG :P chuck us a link? :P :P