Creating Blood Spatter in GIMP

Today we bring you a couple of cool ways to create blood spatter effects in image files using GIMP, a free, open source tool for creating and editing images:

Method 1 – Using GIMP’s built in tools

Here’s a super easy way to use layers, the airbrush tool and alpha-channel correction to create a blood spatter effect. The shape of the spatter is completely up to you. Thanks to Megamotion Films for creating the video.

Method 2 – Using custom splatter brushes

Using this method you’re locked into the shapes that the custom brushes offer, but a couple of them are extremely convincing.

1. Download the brushes here.
2. Extract the .zipped files into your c:\users\[username]\.gimp-2.8\brushes\ folder.
3. Close and reopen GIMP (if it was open when you extracted the brush files).
4. Create a new image file.
5. Choose the airbrush tool and a foreground color to match the blood spatter color you want.
6. Select one of the custom brushes. Resize the brush if necessary.
7. SPLATTER!