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Zombie Kohlhaas
Jul 3, 2007
I have a question about GIMP, too. A while back, there was a thread somewhere on SA where people were putting their cameras in one place and taking pictures of themselves in different poses. Then, they made a composite of the photos, and it looked like multiple versions of one person were interacting with each other (i.e. one guy was punching a "clone" of himself or something). It was similar to a double exposure effect. I've been trying to do the same thing in GIMP, but I can't seem to figure out how to make the layers play nice with each other. Either I can only see the top layer, or one layer is 50% transparent, etc. Can anyone explain how to do this? What I'm going for is something like this (combining four photos of my cat, with only the cat's position changing), except using layers instead of (my admittedly low-effort) copying and pasting:



Thanks! :toot:

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Zombie Kohlhaas
Jul 3, 2007

plaguedoctor posted:

What you are wanting to do is use masks, not mess with transparency.
I don't use GIMP, so I can't say for sure what the method is, but apply a mask to each layer, then blacken the mask in the places where you don't want it to show.

Transparency will affect the entire layer, but masks will only hide/show the parts that you want it to.

Edit: I figured it out! I just wasn't taking what you wrote literally enough, haha. Thanks again! :woop:

Zombie Kohlhaas fucked around with this message at 08:47 on May 14, 2009

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