I understand what you mean. If I look out there, there are many beautiful and incredible photoshop photomanipulation tutorial. But for GIMP, not so much.

Anyway I like photomanipulation too, and these are the ones without third party script (I think )


bigger version: http://hanciong.deviantart.com/art/palace-in-a-hand-197749142


bigger version: http://hanciong.deviantart.com/art/buddha-on-lotus-202124567


bigger version: http://hanciong.deviantart.com/art/buddha-sky-336664612
This one is easy, just some color balance and clone tool

A lot of great photo manipulations here. Enjoying seeing all of them. I also enjoy photo manipulation. That is a large part of what drew me to graphics applications such as Gimp.

Those of you who are familiar with gimptalk may remember the many sig creators over there. Most of their sig creation tutorials used standard Gimp filters using a lot of various layers and layer modes to make very unique and interesting designs. I never got into making sigs, but many of those people kept to the basics with Gimp and yet made a wide range of designs based on manipulating original photos or original works of art.

Here is a photo manipulation I did years ago on one of my photographs just using basic Gimp filters:



I also have recently begun using GMIC filters for photo manipulation and have gotten some results that I enjoy there as well. The one below is a GMIC manipulation of a photograph of the local skyline taken at sunrise a few months ago:





wbool63,

On an interesting coincidental note, I live in a town near to where Alcoa's first production plant began back in 1891 in New Kensington, PA. While Alcoa abandoned the site many years ago, many of the original buildings still remain and it has been converted into a small industrial park. I have pictures of it, but it would take some hunting for me to find one to publish here.

Often the hardest thing is to find elements to make the photomanipulation.
I think most of the tutorials for Photoshop are feasible for Gimp.

This is one I have on stand by for lack of elements for background.
Transform the girl into a vampire is the least.

The idea, in the future, skin texturing in some kind of reptile. So there will be so ... human skin.

I add two more ....
one studio lighting is made ​​with a picture of a picture of the statue daytime Bellver's Angel Caído (fallen angel) (Parque del Retiro, Madrid.) and the other is a recreation of a mythological local (Cantabria) who took care of forests.

so many beautiful photo manips showing up all at once - what rock were you all hiding under ?
i'm so impressed by all this, i really have to practice more on photo manipulation.
favourites in the thread so far:
wbool's smelter picture, the snowfall in akros' summer/winter picture, hanciong's buddha lan tau picture and of course jamc4k's musgoso picture (that one is sooo lovely! i want it framed on my wall)

hope more people will post manips now!

Same here!

AnMal, Thank you, kind of you to Faved

jamac4k, the composition of the scene of the dragon woman (vampire) is interesting, also like this kind of scenarios and setups! But I do not know how to change the skin so realistic.
A face in the tree is a marble statue or the texture you passed to a human face? If the answer is last, indicarias me some tutorial about this technique? Thx!

K1t, so I saw your assembly I was impressed. I had no idea how to get a similar result. When you released the original, motivated me to research techniques that would lead to that result.
I found and tried to follow this tutorial (PS). http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photosh ... Scene.html
I could not do step by step, due to the unique features of the PS, but still got the result I posted. Thx for motivation and Inspiration!

@ccBarr Nice manips. Your "aside" on the history of Alcoa made me look up the history. I always thought it stood for Aluminium Company of Australia. Instead Alcoa stands for Aluminum Company of America. You learn something everyday.

A bit more trivia about this photo. This the smelter at Point Henry near Geelong. In the mid 70's I worked for IBM and was called out on a weekend to fix some 1052 or 1053 machines (remote typewriters) on the pot line. The pot line is where they smelt /melt the aluminium in big crucibles called pots. They use a tremendous amount of electricity which is fed to the line by underground bus bars. I was directed to drive my car to where the machines were, but I must have entered from the wrong entrance and as I drove over the underground bus bars my tools and every bit of loose metal rattled. A month later the gearbox failed. The driveshaft and gearbox were heavily magnetised and had attracted every minute speck of metal.
I repaired the gearbox (second hand-wrecker) but the residual magnetism in the drive shaft and surrounds caused the second gearbox to fail within 6 months (again heavily magnetised). I had to sell the car.

@ Jamac4K, very nice especially the second photo of the face in the rock.
@ Hanciong , Great stuff

Thx K1t!
Seems excellent tutorial.
But I found it very complex.
I could not follow him. Many features are specific to PS, and I could not find how to get the same results with Gimp. That "Color Range" much easier.

#Molly:
Is a texturized face. I just upload to this tread this tut.

Also you can see the original tut of Musgoso in my site (there is a translation bar)

here's another photo i played with this autumn. the original is about as good as my photos usually are and there wasn't much i really could do about it but i really liked the seasick perspective of it so i gave it a try anyway and this was my best result.