Talk:Alpha-13 Ember/@comment-6469980-20150608221010/@comment-4617047-20150613184420

Haha, to be honest, it took my a month or two to get the hang of it. The learning curve is steep for GIMP, what I did was just experiment with the tools and followed online tutorials (via Youtube) for various things. For example, when I make facial hair for clone troopers, I just use the pencil tool and a dark black, and make the desired facial hair I want. I don't make the hair on the original layer, I duplicate it and put it on the one above it. After I like how it looks, I set the top layer's opacity to a lower amount until it looks as though the facial hair matches the blurriness of the image, or until it looks like scruff. Then I add a layer mask to that layer (white opacity) and then use the same black color to "erase" the sloppy edges of the facial hair I drew in. That is how I got Nau'ur's Buckler image, although I had to do major photediting in the background make up for the places where Colt's helmet was no longer present.