Rag's GFX

[Aragorn]

After a period of laziness, I've gotten back into GIMP. I'll be posting stuff I have done in it, both recently and older, here.
Most of this stuff is stuff done in my shop here.
And criticism and compliments are welcome.


This is my current sig and I'm pretty proud of it. I did a couple of softglow filters on it first before putting in the background. I then used the analogist filter on it, which is a part of the FX-Foundry filters set. That is what made the center of the image, Kirito, seem to have two contrasting sides of transparency and solidity. It also made the graphic a bit more realistic and made everything fit together better. I then used the fuzzy border filter on it, adjusting the opacity on the border layer to make the background still visible in the border, just more faded and lighter then the rest of the graphic.


This is the sig I made for Squee's Secret Santa event. I was told to give it a more sad effect, even though it came out more mysterious looking in my opinion. My first step was to get rid of the stars, because I felt that they didn't fit the theme. I then darkened the graphic and used a mute color filter. I rendered the fog/clouds in the background. Lastly, I made a seperate layer for the border, which I then lowered the opacity on to give it that see through effect.

[Aragorn]

This is an old avatar of mine. Sadly, I have lost the .xcf file for it so I don't remember what exactly I had done to it. I do remember that I had darkened the graphic and I think I had blurred the edges of the character in the graphic, as well as adding in the text. The other half of the set is this:

With this, I had started off with a white background. I put the pics of the character in a different layer. I put in the text before the character, then adjusting the opacity of the character layer so you could see the text through the character. I then added in a layer that was completely black and adjusted the opacity on that to make it dark like that. I had tried the brightness adjuster first, but I just couldn't get the effect I wanted from that. Of course, the graphic turned out a little darker then I wanted it too in the end. It was quite a learning experience for me since I didn't know much about the whole transparency topic. Oh and the lost touch was putting in a gradient.

Any feedback is appreciated.