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Week 5 - Tasks: Theming in Drupal was another great learning experience for me. I followed the video Drupal Theme Makeover with much interest but was pretty disappointed because the instructions were for Photoshop, which I don't own. I was able to take to reproduce the same effect in GIMP, without having to resort to a script or plugin. Here is a Before GIMP and an After GIMP shot of the .png file I worked with and the results are identical.
Open your image in GIMP and apply these steps -
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Image > Mode > RGB
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Layer > New from Visible
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Colors > Hue-Saturation
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move the slider to the left ending at -100
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Layer > New from Visible
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Colors > Colorize
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create your own settings
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one of my settings was [Hue=218 / Saturation=100 / Lightness=(-60)
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I saved it as a Preset so I could apply it to other images I was working with later
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File > Save As
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save it with the original image name and allow GIMP to replace that original image (based on the fact that you are already using a "copy" of the theme, renamed, in sites/all/themes)
The only difference in his podcast was that he had an image with a Top Section that was Greyscale and a Bottom Section that was Colorized. In this scenario: after selecting Layer > New from Visible the 2nd time, instead of applying the Colors > Colorize settings immediately, use the selector tool to select just the section of the image you want colorized and then apply Colors > Colorize.
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Week 5 - Tasks: Theming in Drupal was another great learning experience for me. I followed the video Drupal Theme Makeover with much interest but was pretty disappointed because the instructions were for Photoshop, which I don't own. I was able to take to reproduce the same effect in GIMP, without having to resort to a script or plugin. Here is a Before GIMP and an After GIMP shot of the .png file I worked with and the results are identical.
Open your image in GIMP and apply these steps -
The only difference in his podcast was that he had an image with a Top Section that was Greyscale and a Bottom Section that was Colorized. In this scenario: after selecting Layer > New from Visible the 2nd time, instead of applying the Colors > Colorize settings immediately, use the selector tool to select just the section of the image you want colorized and then apply Colors > Colorize.