How to Create Brick Wall Portrait in GIMP

Hi Everyone, In this video I'm gonna show you how to transform a normal photo into a brick wall portrait using the Open Source Image Editing Software called GIMP.

Note:
GIMP is the Alternative for Photoshop. Hence you can try this same method in Photoshop as well.

Brick Wall Image

Steps:
1. Open both the Subject and Brick wall Image Seperately in GIMP
2. Remove the Background of the Subject and Make it Transparent
3. Copy the Subject Layer and paste it on the Brick wall Image
4. Give Stroke to the Appropiate size according to your Subject layer Size
5. Duplicate the Brick Wall Portrait
6. Desaturate it and use Curves to give more Contrast
7. Give Gaussian Blur a little bit
8. Make the Subject layer Active and Go to Filter - Artistic - Cartoon
9. Give Necessary Values
10. Change its Mode to Overlay and Reduce its Opacity to 90
11. Duplicate the Subject layer and Reduce its opacity to 60
12. Move the Subject Layer little bit to the left
13. Go to Filters - Map - Displace
14. Select B/W Brick Wall Layer to the X and Y Displacement
15. And give the value - 5 to the X and Y Displacement
16. Leave others as it is
17. Create New from Visible
18. Give some Perspection to the Image using Perspective Tool (Optional)
19. Create a New layer
20. Select gradient tool
21. Choose gray color
22. Press and Drag the Mouse from the right to the Middle of the Image
23. Make its Mode to Burn and Change its Opacity to 30

That's it. Now you got that Brick painting portrait

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