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








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





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








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










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





And if u want to u can go to Pixlr of 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 u guys liked my first tutorial, and I especially hope u 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 u have your own way that u like better u should just do that!

Anyway, I hope u enjoyed! Bye!