oldmangrumpy: you're so right! one should never stop learning and i thought i knew a lot about gimp when i joined gimp chat but soon found i had just been nibbling a bit in one corner of the big gimp chocolate bar . but i have to say that if you have problems with the dollface effect it may very well be the tutorial causing it! so far i've seen lots of downloads but only one result posted, and i know i'm not the world's best tutorial writer, so it's not exactly a total surprise if i've confused you. what exactly are you having problems with?

Anmal - of course it was not your tut; mea culpa ... my own problem.

What happened was that I have only ever used 'crop to selection' under the 'image' sub menu (i.e. right click on image>image>crop to selection) to finalise an image.

I did not realise at the time of doing your tut that ALL LAYERS were then cropped, not just the one I was working on. I gave up in disgust and rapped myself over the knuckles when I realised there is a similar function under the 'layer' sub menu.

oldmangrumpy: that's actually good to know - i didn't think of the crop-to-selection function showing up in two menus, but i can easily guide people by telling them which menu to look in .

Anmal - you have no idea how long I have worked on this ...



... but it was worth it; learned a lot along the way and gues what ... no glass and no paisley!!

Thanks for the tut.

Nicely done OMG. That is so spooky!

I like your final outcome OMG, it's really good. But I appreciate much more your interest and your willing to do things well done. Maybe you don't realise of how much goodness transmit to we all, me the first. Thanks

Issabella - thank you, but this site, for many of us anyway, is a wonderful example of a 'true co-operative'.

cool OMG

oldmangrumpy: yaaay, you did it ! looks good, and the make up was a fun effect. but what do you mean, no glass and no paisleys? everything gets better with glass and paisleys on it! next time i make one of these i'll give the dollface some paisley tattoos and a glass tiara just to prove my point...

but please, people, tell me if i messed this tutorial up - what can i do to make the steps understandable?

Anmal - thank you; I will try the other Beckham too to make a couple!

Anmal - no 'other Beckham' yet but I could not resist an attempt at humour ...

oldmangrumpy: i agree whole heartedly with my fiance in this matter at least!

Dark fairy

Erisian: You know it's lovely, so I won't say it again. You did the dollfacing thing to perfection, but what I like best is the drama of a dark fairy against that spring flower background. I sort of want to now what she's up to.

Had no idea there was a tut for your dollfaces, that's fantastic thanks much AnMal!
Isn't that Finnish model Suvi Koponen in your tutorial
Did so far only part 1, but I want to share this. The top and the lower part of head were done roughly like in the tut, with perspective tool.
But the eyes I copied on separate layers from the original layer and used filters/distortion/lens distortion twice.
First main and zoom only, on the second round shift and edge was also used to get the eyes straight and directed correctly.
I think this helps also with eye brows and possible hair strands.
Then I moved the eyes bit lower and just cleaned around carefully with eraser.



First dollface, not totally happy working with the warp tool drives me insane.

That's beautiful Nidhogg, I really like it!

Nidhogg: OOooooooh!!! That's perfection, that is! Love the work you did on her skin, the result is really doll-like. Thanks for the tip with the eyes, I see it worked great on your image. I'll definitely have to try it. There was a photoshop tutorial that I tried to follow first time I ever made a dollface and they used the PS equivalent of the lens distortion - I don't remember why I changed it, probably had problems finding the right settings. these days I use Iwarp after resizing to much the same effect.
And it's indeed your countrywoman in the image . I love her face, it's so unique.