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Difficulty: difficulty 1/5

GIMP version: 2.4.4

Category: Simple effects

Author: devvv

Steps: 9

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Tutorial: Create futuristic looking tech pattern

Written by devvv (22 Feb 2008 11:45 PM)

This is one of these simple to do tutorials, but the effect just looks cool and pretty futuristic. So I've written a tutorial for it. Enjoy!

  1. Create a new image: 640x480 px. The Background should be plain white. Now choose Filters / Render / Clouds / Plasma.

    Take these values: 10.000 / tubulence: 7
    screenshot of step 1
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  2. Go to Colors / Desaturate: Brightness and choose OK.
    screenshot of step 2
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  3. Now we're giving our pattern the special look which it will have at the end. We're using the Dilate filter, a very simple filter that smallens the dark areas in an image. Don't be confused if you look at the quick description when hovering the entry in the filter menu - I think currently in Gimp 2.4.4. this is a wrong description.

    Choose Filter / General / Dilate.

    After this repat that filter 30 times. Use CTRL+F to repeat the filter quickly.
    screenshot of step 3
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  4. Got to Filter / Map / Make seamless.
    screenshot of step 4
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  5. Sharpen the picture now using Filter / Enhance / Sharpen: ~85.

    Now we're giving our picture some color: Use Colors / Color Balance
    Shadows: -50 | 30 | 30
    Mids: 0 | 30 | 50
    Highlights: -65 | -40 | 20
    screenshot of step 5
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  6. If you zoom into the image very closely you'll notice some gradients that are not very nice looking.
    screenshot of step 6
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  7. To get rid of this we use Filter / Blur / Selective Gaussian Blur.

    Values: 5 / Max Delta: 13
    screenshot of step 7
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  8. Now we want to have some cool glowing edges so that everything look really future style like.

    Zoom back to 100% (do this fast by clicking the "1"-key).

    Click "duplicate layer" in the layers dialog or just use the hotkey: CTRL+SHIFT+D

    On the duplicate use Filter / BLur / Gaussian Blur: 10.

    Set the layers mode (directly above the opacity ruler in the layers dialog) to "Lighten only".
    screenshot of step 8
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  9. Thats all, we are finished! The softer result is in the left part of the picture below.

    Option 1: If you want your edges to be sharper and more clearly looking use Filter / Enhance / Sharpen (40/50) again on the background-layer.

    Option 2: If you want the whole picture a bit darker (less white glow and more saturated colors) simply create a new totally black layer above all layers and set the layers mode to "Overlay".

    Have fun with this ;) Hope you enjoyed this easy tutorial.
    screenshot of step 9
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From: Zavael (19 Apr 2008 07:01 PM)

perfect and great :) thanks man

From: Robert (26 Feb 2008 04:55 PM)

Yes very nice tech looking pattern! Thanks

From: Gimper (24 Feb 2008 03:27 PM) – Send a private message

nice work devv, might come in handy

thanks

From: Pixkid (23 Feb 2008 05:12 AM) – Send a private message

Wow... really simple yet really awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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