GIMP Tutorial Series Guide - Free Coloring Pages and How To Make - Mosaic - Filmstrip Feature

Coloring Pages 

I have created coloring pages using my photography and a GIMP feature. They are nature photos and have been enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. You can use them in the gimp program to color/paint them, or you may print them out and use crayons, colored pencils, etc.

To Retrieve the following Coloring Pages: Right Click and select Save Picture As... to save them on to your computer. To Download the Complete Part ONE Coloring Pages files see next module (Below).

Bee.jpg

yellowdancers.jpg

Coloring Pages Downloads - How To Make Your Own Coloring Pages With GIMP 

THE DOWNLOADS HAVE BEEN FIXED BY SPLITING THE SET UP BETWEEN FOUR SEPARATE ZIP FOLDERS. There are more but, it will be a few days before I create more files to add here.

To download GOColor as a zip file, place your pointer on the images (BELOW) ONE AT A TIME, then Right-Click your mouse, and select either Save Link or Save Target As depending on your browser.


Right-Click your mouse on the Image, and select either "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" depending on your browser. You will then be able to Save it to your computer.


Right-Click your mouse on the Image, and select either "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" depending on your browser. You will then be able to Save it to your computer.


Right-Click your mouse on the Image, and select either "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" depending on your browser. You will then be able to Save it to your computer.


Right-Click your mouse on the Image, and select either "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" depending on your browser. You will then be able to Save it to your computer.

Right Click on This Link and select "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" depending on your brower

How You Can Use Coloring Pages and How To Make Your Own

* Open any image on your PC by selecting 'Edit With GIMP' (or open Gimp and click on File->Open->browse

* In your image dialog select Filters->Artistic->PhotoCopy
A new dialog will open "Photo Copy Dialog". You can see the Preview of your image. If you like what you see... continue to next step.

* Click OK on the PhotoCopy Dialog.
The wizard will now create a coloring page of your image. Once completed, you can see what your coloring page will look like. If you like it, move on to the next step. (If you do not like it... click on the Edit tab and then Undo Photo Copy - your image will return to what it looked like previously.)

* SAVE AS (select a name for your coloring page, select the folder you want it to be saved in, and select the file type (.jpg for example).

Now you have a saved coloring page. :D
Wasn't that FUN?

Well... The FUN is just beginning. Now you get to COLOR it or...

Ways To Use Coloring Pages

In addition to actually coloring (or using pc software to color them in). You can also use the feature to create exceptional gifts.

Gift Ideas

Thinking about gift ideas...

A Crafter would love to receive a shirt-tote-or Apron, and a set of acrylic paints (If you can not find FABRIC PAINT - don't forget the 'Textile Medium' which is mixed with the regular acrylic paint, so the shirt will be washable after painting).

bAnother Idea/b
AVITARS
Make your own avitar by using a photo of yourself, edit with GIMP, Use the Artistic-PhotoCopy feature and then RECOLORIZE the photo using GIMP colors (use paint brush or bucket fill). Now you have your very own Avitar. ">

Mosaic-The Step by Step Lesson begins Here 

This lesson will explore Basic GIMP, Color Selection, Lettering, and Painting with the Eraser Tool

GIMP Tools 

When you open GIMP this is the primary tool selection dialog

Select FILE to get started 

When you click on FILE a drop down menu will list what you can do from here.

Click on NEW and a Create a New Image dialog will open 

Here you can select the size of your new image background.

Select: 250 Width 250 Height Pixels 

Then click OK

Now back to the Tools Selection dock 

Select the BUCKET by clicking on it.

Now select the Color you would like to use. 

Double click on the current color to open the color selection dialog.

Move your mouse over to your Untitled Image and see where the arrow is hovering. 

Left click to drop your selected color onto the Untitled image.

Select the Letter A from the Tools Selection dialog 

Be sure to double click the A if the Tool OPTIONS dialog is not already open.

Select Font and Font Color, Size, and alignment from the Tool Options dialog 

Hover your mouse over the Untitled image and start typing.

From the GIMP Tools Selection dialog select the CROSS looking tool. 

This tool will allow you to move layers, reposition them, or drag them off the edge.

First click on the BACKGROUND layer on the Layer Dialog... 

Then Click on the Eraser from the GIMP Tool Selection dock and erase some of the background as shown below.

Now return to the GIMP Tool Selection dialog and click on the Bucket again. 

Double click on the current color and choose another color. (I picked Red on this step).

Using the BUCKET tool and selecting different colors for different sections on the drawing... 

I Now have THIS.

Now Look at the Menu on your Untitled Image 

On the FAR RIGHT find and Click on FILTERS

From the Drop Down Menu that appears when you clicked on FILTERS 

Hover Your Mouse over DISTORTS - (see new menu show up?) Then drag your mouse down to MOSAIC

This is What I Got... 

I Like it, but, I think the lettering is a bit light so I am going to change it in the next step.

From Your LAYERS dialog box hover on the Text Layer with your mouse. Right Click and drag your mouse to the Top of the new menu 

Double Click on the A in the GIMP TOOL Selection dialog Then change anything you want. I changed the color to white.

Filmstrip - Easy To Make Filmstrip for Banners or Web Page Header 

Click on the banner below, and you will be hyperlinked to my lens about how to make Filmstrip Banners using GIMP