GIMP Photo Manip -- Advice?

[jjhunter]

Hey all--

First time posting here, and I'm a novice GIMP-user to boot! For the image under the cut, I used clone stamp (to remove shoes), lighting effects (changed intensity to darken central image), reduced opacity paintbrush (to 'paint' in ghost), and merge layers (to add ghost layer to central image). I really struggled with how best to create the ghost, however, and was wondering if anyone had any advice re: favorite tools/techniques, etc. for meshing your own art with photo manipulation.

Comments

[jana]

Layer masks are also pretty useful; I recommended a beginner tutorial here some time ago.

You could also try to find some good tutorials via this community's link collection over at delicious: delicious.com/gimpgate/tutorials

[jjhunter]

Thank you!