Let's get started.
So the first thing you need is to open your picture you want to edit in Gimp.
- Erase everything except the image you want to keep.
- Copy the image into another layer so that if you mess up you can always go back to the original image.
- Go to colors>desaturate. This will turn the image gray and be the start of turning your picture to stone.
- Cover the eyes. Use the free select tool and circle the eyes.
- Use the color gradient tool and try try to get the eyes to match the grays of your image so it blends. Do one eye at a time because you have to do step 6 for the same selections on the eyes.
- With the eyes still selected go to colors>Brightness-contrast until the color matches the image.
- Make the hair and any dark area's lighter.
- Find a texture like a stone image or something rocky that you think would look right. Place it in a new layer over your image your working on.
- Select the image your working on select it then click on the texture layer and it should have the outline of what you did in the other layer press delete so all the extra that isn't needed from the layer is gone. There should be a rock layer that has the same outline as your image.
- Go to images>hue-saturation and for hue put -143 saturation -80 lightness 0. Make sure the numbers are in the correct places.
- 11. In layers select the rock texture layer and for mode: pick multiply. Its starting to look pretty cool now but its not quite done yet .
- Go to colors>levels black should be 0 gray 1.00 white 210. Output levels for black is 0 and white is 255.
- Repeat step 12 but this time black is 0 gray is still 1.00 white is now 206. Output remains the same. There you go it should now look like a statue.
Save the image as a .png so you have a transparent background which you should have had the whole tutorial. If not before you save get rid of all the white in your image.
Now that you have your image all saved and done you can add other effect's to it or place it in a background image. Or both. Have fun!
