In Reitermaniacs tutorial the animated parts of the radar are duplicated, organized and rotated manually.

Besides it makes it possible to create more frames without any additional effort.

This way the animation gets smoother and we can put more effort into the design.

Enough of talking I hope youll have much fun and motivation in this tutorial.

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Linux users usually can install it from their distributions repositories (in Ubuntu its the package gimp-gap).

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Windows users will find all needed information at the bottom of the download page of gimpusers.com.

Unfortunately I must dissappoint Mac users: Im not sure if an installation file exists for Mac OSX.

If somebody finds a good one, please post a comment.).

That means you need GAP 2.8 for GIMP 2.8.x or GAP 2.6 for GIMP 2.6.

The fastest way to open the dialog again is pressing ctrl shift f.

It opens the last used plug-in or filter) - At last insert a horizontal guide at 50.

Tick Expand from center and choose 1:1 as fixed aspect ratio.

The guides will help you to perfectly align the selection to the middle.

Grab the left edge and drag it to the inner guide.

Press del to delete the selection.

Because well need this selection many times, well save it in a channel: Select Save to channel - Select None (ctrl shift a).

Theres a nice tutorial by Bernhard Stockmann, that shows how to do that.

But since its only available on the German gimpusers yet, ill sum up the steps, which are most important for our use: - select the ring-layer - Alpha to selection - new channel, tick initialize from selection - Select None - ensure that youve selected the channel - Filters Blur Gaussian Blur: 25px - hide the channel, select the ring-layer - Filters Light and Shadow Lighting Effects.

Youll see three paths, which were created out of the selections from step 7.

Edit Stroke Path (or click the button in the paths dialog): 1px - repeat that for the other two paths.

The easiest way to do this is clicking onto the guide at the border.

Then press (and hold) ctrl and shift to draw a straight line unto the opponent border.

If the guides annoy you, you can make them invisible with View Show Guides or ctrl shift t.

Switch to the channels dialog, where youll find a channel Selection Mask copy.

Activate that channel and click the button Replace the selection with this channel.

Switch to the layers dialog again and activate the grid-layer.

Then delete the parts, which are standing out by pressing del.

Its too bright and it needs some glow effect.

Filters Blur Gaussian Blur: 10px - reduce the opacity: grid-layer: 20 gridglow-layer: 30.

Installing Gap For Gimp 2.8 On Mac