![]() The script will make quick work of the apply process and your layer dialog should now look something like this: Step 8 Next, we need to add our background to our animation. Go to Layer > Mask > Apply Masks on Visible Layers (make sure all your layers are visible). The script will do it automatically for us. We could do this by hand, but with saulgoode's apply mask script, we don't have to. A series of layers will appear like so: Step 7 Before we can finalize our animation, we need to "attach" or apply the masks to each layer. Choose the following settings (adjust to your liking) and hit OK. Step 6 Now, make the layer active by clicking on the little layer preview in the layer dialog window. and set the settings to something like so: Your highlight should look a bit softer now. With the mask active, go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Step 5 The mask currently creates a "hard edge" on our highlight, where it abruptly goes from white to black. Here's an image showing the layer being active. For this step, make sure the mask is active. To make the mask active, click on the mask preview. To make the layer active, just click on the layer preview image in the layer dialog window. A black line surrounds the layer meaning the layer is inactive. Notice the white line around the mask, this means the mask is active. Another way to tell if the mask or the actual layer is active, is to look in the Layer Dialog window. Anything you do to the image at this point will only work on the mask. Notice that there's a green line around the image border. Choose the following settings: Your image should now look something like the image below. ![]() Right-click on the transparent layer and choose Add Layer Mask. ![]() Everything black will be completely hidden, everything white will be allowed to show through fully, and the in-between shades of gray will show the image somewhere in the middle, with grays closer to white showing more and grays closer to black showing less. Step 4 Next, we're going to add a mask to our transparent image. Again, choose whatever looks good to you. I believe I started mine 15 pixels from the top and ended at 15 pixels up from the bottom. Step 3 Next, grab the rectangle selection tool ( ) and create a selection on the transparent layer similar to this. Note: the red and green dots will not be on your image. Start somewhere near the green dot on my image and, while holding down the Ctrl key (restricts the tool to a straight line), drag the tool to somewhere near the red dot. Now, on the image with the transparent layer, take the gradient tool and create a highlight similar to my image below. Step 2 Set your foreground color to white and under the gradients tab, choose FG to Transparent, like so: Next, set the Blend mode for the gradient to Bi-linear. Open a second image with a single, transparent layer the same size as your first image. Everything will take place on the transparent image we're creating next. We will not be using this image until the very end. I'm using a sig I created quite some time ago. Let's begin! Step 1 Open up the image you want to add the highlight to. The steps are pretty easy, but I've included a LOT of screenshots so that newb's can follow along. I'll provide the menu locations at the appropriate time. Refresh your scripts and you're ready to go. The images we will be creating will look something like so: In order to complete the tutorial, you will need the following scripts: FP's Move Layer FP's Polar Coordinates Space Tunnel Saulgoode's Apply Masks Saulgoode's Combine Background Saulgoode's Animation Settings Download the scripts and place them in your GIMP scripts folder (ie.C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts). In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly create these two border highlight animations using a couple of different GIMP scripts.
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