Creating Clothing Edits in Gimp

Its finally here! Lol
Though not happy with the result, i done this quickly just to do this tutorial. Take your time. It takes me 20-30 minutes to do something decent. There is a total of 10 pictures in this tutorial, so i will post the steps BELOW them. This is a tutorial for a 2 colored dress. I will post one later if you want to use a texture. Also this is a dress tutorial but any other kind of outfit can be created using this method.

Before you start:
Its always helpful to google something you want to create as an extra guidline. Contests may want you to do a prom dress, or a gothic outfit. Google these and find one that looks relatively easy to do.

Listen to some music.

Always make a new layer for every step!

The tools you will need:
Pen Tool
Blur Tool
Lasso Tool



Using the lasso tool, draw your desired dress shape. I recommend that you "wave" the dress at the bottom, like i've shown in the second picture so that making shadows can be achieved easily. Mine is squared, but rounded waves at the end are also recommended. If you draw it flat, not only will it make shadows look weird, but it won't look "real". Ish.


New layer.
Color your dress in your desired color. If using black like i did, please use a slightly lighter color than black.


Now to line the dress. Pick a darker color than your main dress color. I chose the black black. Go to edit > Stroke Selection. A new window pops up asking for the thickness of the outline. Mine is 0.8, but 1.0 is cool to use too :)


Now here i added a secondary color repeating the previous steps.


New Layer. In the layer menu, change the Mode (usually set to normal). Change it to darken.
Using the pen tool, draw a line on the inside of your lining. Edit > Stroke Selection > 0.8/1.0. Do this for both sides. Now get the blur tool, and blur it. Go to your bimbo's boobies, and you may want to use the pen tool for a boobie shadow under her right boobie, or maybe both. (i totally forgot to do it while doing the dress but remembered when writing the tutorial)


Using the lasso tool, on the same layer, do your shadow lines. This can be done by clicking up to the belt like i did, and back down again, joining your beginning to the end. You'll get the "marching ants" line. Now grab your paintbrush and paint it. Repeat for all of the dresses "Innings"When you've done, edit>select none. Then blur each of these lines. (i set my blur to 10.00, the largest size and blur them together)



New Layer, set the mode to Soft Light and set your color to white.
This time, tthe lightness is just acheived by your paintbrush. My brush size was 25. Hold down shift (For a straight line) and just click up. And blur.


And as you probably know, i'm a sucker for fancy brushes, so i just used this lace one for an added effect


I think thats it. Horribly explained but i hope it helps people in some way

Ciao!