Gimpdome

Thar'd be a neat trick. I'll have to try it soon.

This also works if you use a Layer mask. Althought I do like watups way because it is easier to explain. If I get a spare moment today I will whip up a small tut about doing it with layer masks.

Thank you Watup very much for share this

Actually, d, I did one at GT using layer masks, just without images.  But it's pretty straightforward.  You can post it here if you think it's valuable enough.

Actually, watup, masks are very powerful.  Not just for blending renders, but doing all kinds of things.

Art

Not too bad, I got my Sora signature's text following some steps of this tutorial, but not all.

 Simple, but nice. It makes an image look clean and crisp (or something of that sort) in my opinion.

 Also, I would like to make a note on something. On GimpTalk I noticed a guy (who so rudely flamed you ) said that you could just do a guassian blur with the verticle at 0.0. I was working on a layout for a website the other day, and I tried both methods to see if there was any variation, and I would like to note that the guassian blur messed up the coloring on the ends of the lines. Not sure if this is just my computer or anything, but I think this is a better method.

Also, people should memorize the following angles: 0 and 180 for horizontal and 90 and 270 for verticle.

Oh, and could you please explain the need for step 8? If I'm reading this right, there doesn't seem to be a need for it, and it actually messes up the lines. When you do #x#, do you mean that the first number is the length, and the second is the angle? Because that's how I read it.