How to do Color Splash on Gimp 2.6

Step 1. Before you do ColorSplash, make sure the Foreground color is black
and the Background color is white:

Step 2. once you have your picture opened, Duplicate your background:


Step 3. click Colors> Desaturate:


Step 4. once the 'Desaturate' options box pops up, click 'Luminosity' - your picture will turn black and white This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 600x389 and weights 32KB.


Step 5. right click on the Background copy and click 'Add Layer Mask'. Once the 'Add Layer Mask' options box pops up - click White (Full Opacity)


Step 6. This part's easy - grab your Paintbrush tool and start putting color in your picture!
{Don't worry if you make a mistake}

just reverse your Foreground color to white and color over the part you messed up on: This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 600x218 and weights 16KB.
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Step 7.
Yay! Your all done! xD Here is my ending result:

Wow! Great tutorial. I'll try it in my free time and I'll show you it
Btw I love your header text the graphic you did, looks really pretty!

thanks! and yes can't wait to see yours, and thanks again!

Cool I want to make one of these but how do you make that text at the top?

staraugust182 wrote:Cool I want to make one of these but how do you make that text at the top?

She used a font in this list in the link below, then took the brush tool and coloured it on a new layer changing the colours. But there are different ways she could of done that too

http://www.bearvilleguide.com/t55065-good-fonts-to-use-in-your-graphics