Okay, here I added some gaudy makeup to myself. Yes, I do look tired. It's lovely staying up past 1AM doing work. It does wonderful things to my image. :-| Anyway...
The original:
After a little "sprucing up":
Okay, all this takes is being comfortable using plenty of layers. You open a new layer and work with your paintbrush to paint on a color over whatever you're adding to (lips, eyes, etc.). Then you'll have to mess around with the mode (I used overlay). It's in the Layer dialog box. You will also want to check out Opacity to see how thick you want the color to be. When you are done with all the layers you wanted to add, flatten the image in the Layers menu (If you forget, it will also ask you to do this when you go to save). The only thing other than a round brush shape I used was a special eyelash brush I downloaded. Go to Google and search for Gimp eyelash brushes, and up pops a ton of options. I made sure the eyelashes were each on their own layer, then I went into Layer>Transform>Arbitrary Rotation. This helps you get the right angle for the eyelashes to sit on the eye properly. You may have to go to Transform>FlipHorizontally if you don't have a mirror opposite brush for your first eyelash.
I look a bit like a drag queen, don't I? lol
4 comments:
Holy technical work Batman! Karen, thank you for taking the time to list your steps out, it gives me new ideas and the desire to try different things on my own!
And you look nice as a drag queen (I jest, I jest...)
Murph =)
Wow! Great job! You would never know that you didn't apply the make-up yourself. Awesome!! :)
Wow!! Nice work with the drag queen effect!! haha!!
Very cool! You could really make someone look really horrible or good! LOL! This is what those Star Magazine's do all day, try to add things to Star's photo's to make them look like they don't! Or doing things that they really aren't doing.
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