IWarp Tutorial For Gimp

Hi all!  The other day Eden and I were talking about things we love about blogging and the biggest one is helping people; helping customers find new stores, find affordable items when on a budget, help store owners get more traffic, etc.  We decided another way to help people would be to do tutorials!  Now none of us claim to be the best bloggers ever but I firmly believe that everyone in life has something to teach someone else and something of value to offer if they dig deep enough.  So, with the small amount of skill I have, I bring you my first tutorial!  Here is the unedited, direct from SL shot.  As you can see, there are lots of pointy looking bits because the SL mesh sucks so hard and makes us look all straight and sharp and stuff.

So first I take the lasso thingy tool and draw around the area I want to edit, in this case the boob, because boobies really should never be sharp. :D  Next I open the "Filters" drop down menu and go to "Distorts" and then finally select "IWarp."  A new box will pop up with the image of what you lassoed on the left and a bunch of sliders and stuff on the right.  There are a lot of options but for this we should check "Move." My picture was over 3000 pixels so for that tiny area I had to move the slider up to 35 radius.  Mess around with it to find which number works better for your picture size, etc.  All you do then is "push" the pointy parts gently inward with the mouse to make it look rounder.  If you need to see this image closer just click it to get to my Flickr.

I did this on a few different parts of the body.  It's just a little thing but when a picture is done it can make a big difference!  The picture on the left is the before and the right is the after.  I edited it enough so that there weren't too many scary, sharp spots but not so much that it actually distorts what the product, shape and avatar in general look like.  Like I said, this is just a small change but in the future we will bring you more tutorials and combined maybe we can all learn together and do some cool stuff! Forgive me if this sucked, I am still learning. xD  Let me, Sileny Noel, or any of us here at Free*Style know if there is anything you want covered and, don't forget, there is no such thing as a stupid question!

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