Not sure where I got this from but it's been on my HD for awhile.

30 pages and lots of steps but looks like it can be simplified a bit.

Here's the final image.



Attached is a zip containing the PDF Tutorial, the template xcf and the final image (40 layer) xcf.

cool, I love that shiny plastic look in the graphic.

That's a long tutorial. Nice of them to supply the template for Tux.

This is one of my favorite places to get Tux. They keep adding more tuxes to it.

http://tux.crystalxp.net/

This is one of my favorites from there. I call it, Bad Hair Day Tux.

I couldn't find one that suited me, so I made it myself, using the template of course:

Live long and prosper!

Oh, mahvin, that's cool - Spock Tux, pointy ears and all.

I call him Spox.

I like your name for him.

Love those. I want to do the tute, just deciding whether to print it out first (which I prefer) or try keeping the tute open on desktop, which I hate. lol.....

Thank you, Molly!

We'll be way uptown with something like that, GTux.

Working on the penguin tut...oy, it's gonna be a few day to finish! I'm only on step 20.

Well I bit the bullet and that tutorial took me about 4.5 to 5 hours to do. Of course I took some breaks from it. It's very tedious and you can be sure I saved my finished one with the layers in an xcf file. I don't know where those light pixels came from around the feet. Shouldn't be there and I'll have to go back to my layers but that will happen tomorrow.

One of the hard things is moving selections long distances like left: 100, down: 80. It's hard for me to be steady and watch the numbers at the bottom of the image window. There are some in there where you only move a few pixels both ways and those are easy to do with the arrow keys. Too bad there isn't a dialog box that you can plug in the values for the move tool. I suppose I could have put up guides ...

very good "O"

Those ugly light pixels around the feet are caused by the Tux Drop Shadow. These are the steps I did to fix it:

In step 40 and after doing step F.

Selection > Shrink 1

Selection > to Path (this smoothes the selection)

Unselect.

Selection > From Path

Continue with step G and the drop shadow.

The one on the left is the first Tux I posted. The right one is the one I fixed.



I saved the xcf final Tux in the tutorial packet as a png image. I see there are even more light pixels around that one.

I eyeballed some of the moves when I discovered there wasn't a dialog window with numbers for the move tool. My highlights will prolly be a bit off because of that.

GimpChatTux

wow that is so nice "O" That is the first time I have seen something as transparent as that. You can see right into it, excellent job.....

lol, that is one cute penguin, O.

Thank y'all very much.

Nice work, O! We can update the tutorial to reflect those changes, as well as add in any additional shortcuts or improvements posted back to this thread.

Also, we should probably split this thread or get mahvin to start a new thread with his cool Wilber image. That deserves its own thread.