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How to make a wallpaper from a movie posterHow to make a wallpaper from a movie poster
created 8.9 y • edited 8.9 y by Ziggy • Updates history (3)
●● Average 🚩 22 steps 🕗 6 minutes
To make a wallpaper from a movie poster, you need 1 thing:
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Find a guide to know how to make a gimpFind a movie poster and open it in GIMP
Click "Image" then "Scale Image..."
Enter height of your screen
Click "Image" then "Canvas Size..."
Enter your screen width and click "Center"
Duplicate layer
Move layer to the left
Same thing for the right side
Set layers order
Merge layers down
Click Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur...
Enter blur radius
Click Colors > Brightness-Contrast...
Drag brightness cursor to the left
Duplicate layer
Hide main layer and focus to duplicated layer
Fill with black color
Add Alpha Channel
Expand layer to image size
Blur layer
Enter blur radius
Unhide main layer
In this tutorial i will show you how to make a wallpaper from any movie poster using the free software GIMP!
Let's do this!
1
Use your favorite images search engine, like Google Images (go on google.com then click "Images" tab). For this tutorial i entered
zombieland poster. Just replace "zombieland" by any other movie name!
Try to find the biggest image as possible (at least the same height of your screen height), as it will be used to make the HD wallpaper!
2
Click "Image" then "Scale Image...".
3
1050.
1
Make sure the 🔗
(chain links) is enabled so the image width will be automatically calculated.2
Enter your screen height.3
Click Scale
.If you don't know how to find out your screen resolution, just use whatismyscreenresolution.com !
4
5
1
Enter your screen width, e.g. 1680 if your resolution is 1680 x 1050.2
Click Center
to automatically center the movie poster in the layer.3
Click Resize
.
Make sure the
🔗
(chain links) is NOT enabled, so you can change the width without changing automatically the height.
6
Duplicate Layer.
7
For that, click the "Move" tool, then drag the layer to the left.
8
9
You can drag and drop them if you need to reorganize your layer stack.
10
Merge Downto join together the left poster layer and the right poster layer.
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12
25, then click
OK
.
13
14
-60then click
OK
.
15
Right click the centered movie poster layer, then click
Duplicate Layer.
16
1
Click the eye button to hide the 1st layer.2
Click the second layer so we can work on it and transform it into a shadow!
17
1
Click "Fill" tool2
Make sure to have black color in here3
Make sure to have FG color fillchecked
4
Make sure to have Fill whole selectionchecked
5
Click anywhere in the layer to fill it.
18
Just right click the layer then click
Add Alpha Channel.
19
Just right click the layer then click
Layer to Image Size.
20
Click Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur...
21
40.0then click
OK
.The vertical value should be automatically the same (with chain links button enabled).
22
Just click the eye button again (like we did in step 16).
100for best quality, then right click your image in file manager and click "Use as wallpaper" to use it as your desktop wallpaper!
That's it! You can now make your own wallpapers from movies posters.
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Photo credits: Movie poster from Zombieland
imdb.com/title/tt1156398
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