Educational Wii Games For 5 Year Olds

Note: I got a note at DeviantArt asking me for a quick coloring tutorial. I told the person that I'm not really good at this and that I'm just a beginner. She ( or he...I'm not really sure ) insisted so why not give it a try?
Well, I decided to make it and post it here and not on Deviantart.

Warning!!!:
I'm not a professional using GIMP or any other digital image-editor! I made this tutorial just with the basic stuff I know about GIMP.

Things you'll need:
1) GIMP
2) A sketch
3) Creativity ( don't worry I don't have the third one but I get pretty cool comments and watcive you some tips
now so read on...

1) Use different pencils while sketching and if you want a real manga effect use a black/grey marker.
2)
 If you don't have a good camera, and the sketch looks too dark/dirty  for your taste, you can open it with GIMP, put a transparent layer on it and trace the sketch. If you don't have a tablet (
like me
) use a fuzzy brush and trace it carefully. ( The PATH TOOL helps too)

3)  If you have a scanner, scan it at 300 dpi and on grayscale mode.
If you want a really neat sketch go to COLORS --->
LEVELS and play a bit with it tillyou get your clean sketch. Erase Some bit if you want too. If you scanned the sketch It Will Be Easier to create the lineart Than When You Have to trace it. Go ... LAYERS --->
TRANSPARENCY ---> COLOR TO ALPHA
.... and voila you get your lineart!
( Do the Same if you downloaded a manga page )


Save it as. Png and remember to save a lot from now on! Defense manga I like the Devil and I discovered That I'm pretty good at imitating the manga 'style so let's color Gelipeta ( Weird name, cool guy ... it Happens a lot .)
The this. .. it Takes more time so as I Already Said Do not do like me. * Sighs * Use Different (

transparent) layers ... Do Not put in one layer Everything!

Now let's start Adding
shadows ... (
now choose a light source if you Did not do it while sketching
.) You Do not Need to choose colors again ... just add a new tranparent layer and put it on OVERLAY (MODE) Use BLACK
for adding shadows, it Gives You A Darker color from the basic one. It'll look weird But it's fine Like That. If you need a really dark shadow dog duplicate the layer you just add another one or anRRR.

I don't really use the blur tool (
the one which looks like a tear drop ) You just need to go... FILTERS ---> BLUR---> GAUSSIAN BLUR.

I used 4.0 for this one 'cause 5.0 was just too blurry. This blur helps you to get a cool ' smooth
' effect.

After blurring,

 DUPLICATE the layer to get a better effect.  
 
After duplicating the layer you can put it on whatever the mode you like to get the effect you want. I use
MULTIPLY, SCREEN, GRAIN MERGE

and

DODGE (
this one helps when coloring blood

) a lot off a bit, ya)

If you want some cool fonts go to dafont.com and install them in your computer so you don't need to create a font folder for GIMP. *sighs* Well, I hope this helps you to understand GIMP and use it better. bye~~