Wow, a week in and I already missed two planned tutorials. At least I've got a decent excuse. My cord was misplaced and I was away from home for a week. But here's something to make up for it: a lovely tutorial! A couple years back I kept searching for how to make a paint splatter effect in Gimp. No dice. Instead I wound up finding a lot of blood splatter effect tutorials. Kind of a weird thing to find in abundance, but not paint splatter. Okay then. Well, I used the same concept to create a paint splatter effect and I'm finally getting around to sharing that knowledge.
So it doesn't look that insanely impressive, I know. But what we're going to do with it is a lot more fun.
At first I started this post with the idea of just showing how to make the paint splatter background, but then I decided to just mess around with putting it as a text form. And I love the effect more than I originally liked it. So now I'm going to pass the information on! It's pretty easy and once you get the hang of it you should be pretty quick at it. And by learning how to extract a background as text you can apply it to all kinds of images. In case you don't quite get what I mean (I'm a visual person, too don't worry.) here's a picture of the final effect: