Making Manips on GIMP

[Raleigh (Rawls)]

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How to Manip on GIMP
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This wolf will be changed to a white horse Myou with a gray mane and tail.

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O N E.
Paste the image into GIMP and select the free select tool.

Note that it is set to feather edges and that the radius is set to a number lower than five. In places of short fur, use a smaller number and in places of longer fur, use a greater number.

Now crop the wolf. I do it in small sections to keep the integrity of the coat. If the wolf has any features covered up or hidden by the environment, make a guess as to the outline of it.

This is the wolf cropped:

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T W O.
Recolor the wolf to the shade that you want using the free select tool, colorize, and the color layer. You may use other layer modes to get the effect you want. Since you cut out your wolf, you may simply bucket fill a new layer and set the layer to color mode. An easy way to recolor is specified in the Re-Coloring Wolves on GIMP tutorial found here: LINKIE

Recolored wolf:

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T H R E E.
Using the free select tool in similar steps as you had done to cut out the wolf, you can cut out any extra features for your wolf. In this case, I am using the furry mop on the head of a highland cow and the tail of a racehorse running down the track to make the mane and tail of this horse Myou. Recolor the extra items to match them to the color you want. In this case, I just desaturated them, so it was easy. Always make a new layer when adding a new feature. This is especially important when drawing in features, such as the start of a mane.

Note that I copied the wolf's ear from a lower level and made it a new layer on the top.

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F O U R.
Make the final touches. For the final touches, I used the smudge tool to complete the look of the mane and tail. I also drew in some more hairs using the brush. Something usually overlooked is to add in any shading that was lost in the coloring stage, as I have done. You do this in much the same way as coloring (using a very wide radius feathered free select), except you just copy and paste the sections you want to shade and set the new layers to Multiply mode. Note that the weak part of the manip is the paws, instead of trying to remake them, I would just set the wolf in some grass

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COMPLETED WOLF:

i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/Wonderwhy_wolves/forsea.png