How to create your animated userbar with Gimp

The user tavo left today a tutorial on our forum, tutorial that I publish here because it deserves it 😀

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As promised is debt, yesterday on IRC I promised to KZKG ^ Gaara do this tutorial on how to create our animated userbar in Gimp.
I apologize for the screenshots in English, as I use it in that language because it is practical for me when following tutorials
The first thing we will do is open Gimp and select the foreground color with the following value:

As seen in the screenshot, the value must be fcfdfe In this way, the background will be in tune with the aesthetics of the forum.

Then we go to the tab File> New  and in the window that appears we choose these dimensions:

The horizontal value should be 450 and 60 for the vertical (you can anyway according to your preferences). Also in Advanced Options they must choose foreground color as background.

The next step is to use the text tool to write the content that the userbar will have, in my case I use the phrase: <° DesdeLinux User .when they have written the text on that same layer they give right click> alpha to selection. With the selected text we take the blending tool (gradient), in my case I use blue glow, but they can use the one they prefer. They fill the selection with the gradient, leaving it like this:

Next we will duplicate the text layer 14 times to achieve 15 identical layers:

Marker A indicates where you should click to duplicate the selected layer

From now on we will work with those layers, adding filters and transparencies 

* The first step is to work from layer 1 to 4 inclusive going to Filters> Blur> Gaussian Blur and the values ​​to use are the following for each layer:

In layer 1 filter settings:
Horizontal: 12px
Portrait: 12px
In layer 2 filter settings:
Horizontal: 9px
Portrait: 9px
In layer 3 filter settings:
Horizontal: 6px
Portrait: 6px
For layer 4 filter settings:
Horizontal: 3px
Portrait: 3px

* As a second step we will work from layer 11 to 15 (inclusive), that is to say with the last five layers.First of all we must align these last 5 layers to the dimensions of the image, this is important to achieve the desired effect, this mode: tab Layers> Align to Image Size. Then we rename the layers with numbers one by one by double clicking on the layer, they change its name to numbers.

The filter that we will use in the layers is Filter> Blur> Motion Blur and we will apply it as follows for each layer and a duplicate that we will create for each of them:

Duplicate layer 11.
Filter settings, for duplicate and original layer respectively:
Copy
Length: 10
Angle: 0

Original layer
Length: 10
Angle: 180
A layer 11 and the copy are combined (right click on the copy of layer 11 and choose to combine down)
Duplicate layer 12.
Filter settings:
Original layer
Length: 20
Angle: 0
Duplicate
Length: 20
Viewing angle: 180
A layer 12 and the copy are combined.
Duplicate layer 13.
Filter settings:
Original layer
Length: 30
Angle: 0
Duplicate
Length: 30
Viewing angle: 180
A layer 13 and the copy are combined.
Duplicate layer 14
Filter settings:

Original layer
Length: 40
Angle: 0
Duplicate
Length: 40
Viewing angle: 180
A layer 14 and the copy are combined.
Duplicate layer 15
Filter settings:

Original layer
Length: 50
Angle: 0
Duplicate
Length: 50
Viewing angle: 180
A layer 15 of the copy is merged.

What we will do now is modify the opacity of the layers with these settings:

1 to 60%
2 to 70%
3 to 80%
4 to 90%
11 to 90%
12 to 80%
13 to 70%
14 to 60%
15 to 50%

We are going to select our background layer to duplicate it four times, leaving five identical layers. We raise the last duplicate background above our layer 1 (with the arrow pointing up in the layer navigator next to the marker A).

We duplicate again and raise it on top of layer 2 and so on, leaving backgrounds interspersed between the text layers like this:

Now let's file> save as  and name the file with the extension . Gif at the end for example:userbar.gif .

In the window that appears, it is important to mark the option:

Save as Animation

Then we press export and then accept.

We navigate to our file and it should look like this:

I hope you find it useful and it is well understood, any questions do not hesitate to consult me, I leave another example of results that can be achieved:

If you notice in the second banner I edited the dwell times in frames .... I'll add it later, it's not that complex.

Regards!

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Thank you very much to tavo For this excellent tutorial, the result is super cool haha… and, let you know that if you want to put Gimp tutorials here, articles or whatever you consider interesting, it will be an honor for us 😀