Reader Tutorial: Colorful Light Effect in GIMP

clipped from abduzeedo.com Reader Tutorial: Colorful Light Effect in GIMP I was browsing the other day and saw a Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 with a beautiful wallpaper on it and thought to myself "Can I make one that looks like it but using only GIMP?" Step 1 We first create a new document, you can make it any size, though I used 1600 x 1200. Setting by default Black as your Foreground color, we can ask in the advanced options to use it as our background. Step 2 We now create a new layer, this time it should be transparent.