

An off-white that has a touch of yellow in it works well if you want a warm sparkle. When you have your brush selected, click on the Colour Picker found at the bottom of the Tool Box and select a suitable tone. 80 pixels is fine for our image but how large your brush size should be will depend on the object and the size of the image you’re working on. You will also need to adjust the size of the brush while you are here which you do with the size slider, or you can input a figure in the box just above the slider. Go back to the brush menu but this time, pick the preset star shape you want to use (we chose the one numbered 50). You’ll be asked if you want to replace the current brushes click OK. To get a star shape, click on the little arrow to the top right of the brushes palette where the arrow is, right of the menu and load the Assorted set. Open your image and select the Brush Tool. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. After that the sparkle is shining a bit more.MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably. Move the duplicate below the original sparkle layer. Set layers mode of the duplicate to “soft edges” Tip #2: If you want to refine the sparkle effect: Please don’t use too much of it or you’ll lose the effect! You can apply that sparkle to almost everything. You’ll get a more appealing look if the sparkle is not always the same size. Tip: While applying the glitter also change the size of the brush using the brush scale option in the tool prerferences. Press at different places in the picture preferably at bright/highlighted areas. If not please choose it from the dropdown where you can assign the brush. The “Glitter” brush should be active automatically. SPACING is not important for us in this case because we only apply a single sparkle at a time. I use ~75 – thats a good value for most objects. The radius depends on the size of object you want the glitter to be on. Open the brush dialog: Window / Dockable Dialogs / Brushes or simply press SHIFT+CTRL+B.Ĭlick “New Brush” at the bottom of the dialog – name it “Glitter”. We’ll need to create a special brush ourselves.

I’m using a cocktail glass photo in this tutorial. That could be text, a photo or something else. Open up any image that you want sparkle on. It is pretty easy in GIMP to accomplish this effect - you only have to know how you do it ) Tutorial details think about a dishwasher commercial where the glasses sparkle in an extreme way after the washing.

Motivation You all know these exaggerated advertisments where objects glitter very clearly.
