Hi there, I'm going to hiển thị bạn how I make my crossover pictures: using GIMP and the polygonal lasso tool! GIMP is a free bức ảnh editing software bạn can get online, and works for both Mac and Windows machines. I'm using a Mac, so if bạn have a Windows then something might be different, I don't know. And this is made for people who either are a) new at crossovers, b) new at GIMP, hoặc c) new at everything, so if you're a crossover fiend with mad GIMP skillz I doubt you'll learn much. With that said, let's begin!




Step One: Compiling your pictures
For this tutorial I'm going to make a picture of Phoebus and Aurora together, so I'll need to get a picture of each of them. For the background of the image I could put Aurora in Phoebus' picture hoặc Phoebus in Aurora's, but I want this to happen in a spooky graveyard. This screencap from Princess and the Frog will do the trick. See, now I have three pretty little pictures lined up!







Step Two: Selecting Your Character
Okay, this is where bạn need to start paying attention. Let's start with Aurora. Zoom in (use + to zoom) on Aurora to a degree bạn find comfortable, and find the 'free select tool' in your toolbox. Then find a place on Aurora's outline, it doesn't matter where, and click. A dot should appear. To continue the line, just stretch your cursor away from your dot as far as bạn wish, staying on Aurora's outline.








When bạn want to turn hoặc tilt your line, just click on the corner and bạn can make an angled line. Continue this for Aurora's entire outline, being extra careful on curvy parts.





When bạn get to the end of Aurora's outline, just connect your cursor to your original line, as such:








Hopefully you'll end up with something like this:







Step Three: Putting your characters together
First copy what you've selected of Aurora using Command+C (or Ctrl+C for Windows). Then I'll want to open up my graveyard background:





And paste Aurora there using Command+V (Ctrl+V for Windows), and di chuyển her to a good position with the di chuyển Tool:





Hmm... she looks a bit small there. No worries, we can fix that easily. Just go to Layer>Scale Layer... and a pop up menu will appear. Change the unit of measurement from inches to centimeters, and estimate bởi what percentage the character should be increased. I ended up increasing Aurora's size bởi 25%.





Here's the final result, our princess is a good size now!





Now we have to add Phoebus to the picture. Open him up and repeat step two, and then paste him in with Aurora, like so:








Hmm, Aurora looked too small, but I think Phoebus looks too big! Oh well, just scale accordingly and di chuyển him with the di chuyển Tool:








Doesn't that look nice! If bạn want to add another character, just repeat Step Two with another screenshot, but if two characters is good for bạn then we're ready to go. To save bạn just go to File>Export As... and choose JPEG hoặc your preferred file type.










Step Four (optional): effects and whatnot
Well, here is the final result of the crossover:





And if bạn want to bạn can go to Pixlr hoặc the editing site of your choice and add some effects, make it look fancy like this:





...But of course, that is optional.




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Well, I hope bạn guys liked my first tutorial, and I especially hope bạn learned something from it! I actually made this for prussiaducky because she had no clue how to use GIMP, but I decided to make a full-blown bài viết in case anyone else could benefit from it. And all of this is just how I do things, if bạn have your own way that bạn like better bạn should just do that!

Anyway, I hope bạn enjoyed! Bye!