Image Processing Reference
In-Depth Information
• Right-click on the
Layers
dialog and select the
Merge Visible Layers
item
from the context menu. Click
Merge
in the
Merge Visible Layers
dialog to
accept your changes.
• Open the
greetingcard.xcf
image. Save it again as
eastercard.xcf
.
• Drag the recently modiied layer from the image
workingegg.xcf
onto the
eastercard.xcf
image window and, subsequently, drop it.
• Give the new layer a descriptive new name in the
Layers
dialog (for
example, red egg). Now position the layer underneath both the text and
the text shadow layers.
• Position the egg in the image so that you can see it entirely, including the
drop shadow. Otherwise, you could chop some of it of in the following
steps.
• Scale the size of the egg (choose
Layer > Scale Layer
or
Tools > Transform
Tools > Scale
or just use the
Scale tool
from the Toolbox). Then place it in
the image and use the
Rotate tool
to slightly adjust it.
• It could help to reduce the size of the layer to include only the egg with
it´s shadow. Therefore, select the
Layer > Autocrop Layer
menu item.
• Right-click on the
red egg
layer in the
Layers
dialog, then select
Duplicate
from the context menu. Click on duplicate twice to make two new layers.
Name one layer
blue-egg
and the other
yellow-egg
.
• Position the newly created eggs (which are still red) on the image where
they are entirely visible. (Activate the layer, click the
Move tool
on it, and
drag).
• Switch the newly created layers around in the
Layers
dialog in the spatial
arrangement and the order you prefer.
• Scale and rotate each egg according to your liking. Be sure to check the
Keep aspect
box in the Tool Options or hold the
Ctrl key
while scaling an
image.
• Select the
blue-egg
layer in the
Layers
dialog. Choose
Colors > Hue-
Saturation
. Move the
Hue
slider until the egg turns blue. Repeat for the
yellow-egg
layer, but tweak the
Hue
slider to color the egg yellow this
time.
• Save the changes as
eastercard.xcf
In the following section, you'll take a closer look at the Hue-Saturation
function.
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