Now then this being potentially a header, you can throw in a darker image here. Well, you get the idea as far as being able to play around with it. Oops, I didn’t create any layer so Control + Z, new layer, OK, on top of, straight down. Let’s just go with full-blown blue for the foreground and the background let’s go with white. But again, it’s just something you can play with here. See how it kinda tames the a little bit and we get rid of it altogether, that’s the original. This is on top of our background already so let’s decrease the opacity or increase the transparency if you will. Now this is how it’s gonna look here and let’s undissolve this, let’s go with normal. And let’s go with a green just to be kinda peaky looking. Now to kinda add to this, let’s throw together another layer on top if this one. Just kinda drag this and as you kinda see how that gives maybe a little starry night look if you will or a paint-splattered look. To get a good feel of the Dissolve, you have to reduce the opacity a tad bit. Let’s show you then Dissolve, it’s pretty cool. So that’s why you kinda leave this as zero. See, you don’t have much of a blending part there. As far as the Offset, let’s increase that and I’ll show you how it takes some of the blending away. Now we can reverse this like I was saying. Pretty much I can do this is you just simply hold your left-mouse button down and you will affect the pattern by where you let go whether it’s straight across, at an angle, straight up and down, at some point in between. Now let’s try something in the header neighborhood of 700 by 150 tall and we’re gonna make sure we go with the white background versus the foreground, background or transparency colors. I’d like to have something of similar colors in nature. ![]() We’ll try the Linear first, 100% Opacity, zero Offset, and we’ll see over this color here. So let’s jump right into this and get things going here. And you can add layers, add these on top of one another by creating additional layers with different gradients, different colors until you’ve got such a mishmash that you can do just about anything with it. I mean, this is pretty cool down here the Spherical. ![]() The Shape, you can go with Linear, Bi-linear, Radial, Conical, Angular, Spherical. The Offset, again, is another great functionality. This is the foreground and the background these two here. ![]() You can reverse the color scheme that you got. Opacity brings it either full color or almost invisible or more transparent. You’re gonna find different opportunities for particular task that you’ve got to accomplish. Again, just play around with these different modes. Overlay is one that’s pretty good but we can usually tackle what this is over here in the Layers dialog box. Normal is where you’re gonna find yourself mostly. So basically in the mode section, we’ve got a bazillion of them. More options that we’ve got time for in this video so I’ll just kinda brush over them to give you ideas on how to get started and then the rest of it is just up to your imagination. And here are the options that we have and frankly, we’ve got quite a few different options. And a quick shortcut on your keyboard to get here would be the letter L, as in Larry. And on this video, we’re gonna be working with the Blending Tool, otherwise known as the Gradient Tool. Hello and welcome to this video series on the Gimp.
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