okay...now what?

haha, what davenes said. :p. 

I've personally never gotten into the gimp; never seemed to do what I wanted. I will admit it's a great program if you can figure it out though.  Personally, I use paint.net - but my stuff is nowhere near as complicated as DVD covers, it's more like forum signatures.

The very first thing we'll work on is colour, brightness, contrast and saturation.

If you guys all wanna use this clip first then we can all work on it together.

Most images tend to have low contrast and are too bright (like the first one) Some have a hgiher contrast like the second one. Some images are colour enhanced (like both) so the saturation needs to be brought down. It also seems like theres too much blue so you might wanna work on that too.

Select Colour-> Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast

Use the crop tool as well to save these as two different images. (crop tool looks like the blade) Crop one image, save it as (example name 1).jpg and then once saved it CTRL+Z and do the same for the other image. Next we'll work on working with different layers.

A simple touch up...but is it good?.........Only da Vinci knows for sure.

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Maybe a little more strength to it to make it more noticeable. But you get the idea. Now we'll use layers to tint stuff.

Start with this image:

Go to colour, click on colorization and play around with that to get different colours. Once you think you've got it, move on to this:

Open a new window, and paste this on the Background layer:

As you can see, this image has a bluish green tint with a low saturation to it. What you want to do now is create a new layer (see layer window by pressing Ctrl+L). To create a new layer click on the blank square in the layer box. Call the layer Batman Control or something.

Paste that in it. You'll notice Batman will need some resizing, so click on the resize/scale tool in the Gimp toolbox, and click on the image. A box will pop up, click the chain to lock the proportions and then resize batman as you would it paint. Once finish click on Scale (in the window that popped up).

Now using the toolbox, select the magic wand tool. Set the threshold to something like 20 or 30 (that is how sensative it is to similar colours you've clicked on.) Click on the white area and once you think you've got enough of it, right click and select delete/clear. Now you can see the background but Batman's tint is off!!!

Duplicate this layer. Do this by rightlicking the Batman layer and select duplicate or click on the duplicate button (looks like two photos). Now select the top layer and go to colourize. Change the hue to a blue colour matching this one. Don't worry about the saturation, contrast, brightness or strength yet. Once the colour is matched, accept it. I know it's too strong at the moment, but now in the layer window, (with the top layer selected) lower the visabilty or the opacity of the layer so we still get som yellow and colour from the belt and some skin colour. Right click the top layer and click merge down so now Batman's colours are modified. (NOTE: DO NOT MERGE BATMAN WITH THE BACKGROUND) Now work on brightness/contrast and hue/conrast to match it perfectly. Save the image as to an extension of .xcf (or .psd for photoshop users) AND a jpeg file. Keep the xcf/psd file for yourself because we'll continue working on this picture later.

Asteroid-Man said:

...Now select the top layer and go to colourize. Change the hue to a blue colour matching this one. Don't worry about the saturation, contrast, brightness or strength yet. Once the colour is matched, accept it.

What 'one' were we supposed to match?

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Janskeet said:

...tell Asteriod-Man... I want his help.

*shudder* Oh, Janskeet ... I'm so very, very glad his "new" account got banned as quickly as it did.

I'm still slightly concerned about the fact that he has my address, though ...