Today's tutorial is a bit’ long, I wanted to document in detail all the steps, so that they could be understood without reading the explanations, but only flipping through the images.

Gimp with the photographic manipulations are very easy, but the technique which I will discuss today is quite complex, and write in this post also to remember it in the future. Today we start from a subject monochrome, and end up with having the same subject with the water effect.

To create the effect we will use all our flour sack, with the exception of are. Anyone is free to use the font that best satisfies the, preferably with rounded corners (It must seem written with water) and since I personally hate the “Comic Sans MS” I decided to use the '”Arabolical“.

Let's start with the classic white sheet. Measurements 640 x 480 px that coloreremo with a gradient mode “radial“of the same color in two different tones: #017189 and #00acd2. (more…)