Hi there, I'm going to Zeigen Du how I make my crossover pictures: using GIMP and the polygonal lasso tool! GIMP is a free Foto editing software Du can get online, and works for both Mac and Windows machines. I'm using a Mac, so if Du 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, oder 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 oder 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 Du need to start paying attention. Let's start with Aurora. Zoom in (use + to zoom) on Aurora to a degree Du 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 Du wish, staying on Aurora's outline.








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





When Du 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 Bewegen her to a good position with the Bewegen 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 Von what percentage the character should be increased. I ended up increasing Aurora's size Von 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 Bewegen him with the Bewegen Tool:








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










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





And if Du want to Du can go to Pixlr oder 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 Du guys liked my first tutorial, and I especially hope Du 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 Artikel in case anyone else could benefit from it. And all of this is just how I do things, if Du have your own way that Du like better Du should just do that!

Anyway, I hope Du enjoyed! Bye!