Generate a cool tech pattern
Someone often needs a cool pattern that can be used for a forum signature, a banner, a wallpaper or something else. This simple technique shows you how to make such "tech" pattern.
This article has been written by devvv
(Bernhard Stockmann) using GIMP 2.3.10.
It's divided into 6 steps and takes about
5 min to complete for an average user. 23443 times read so far.
Category: Simple effects, required skill:

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Available in other languages:
- Tech-Hintergrund erzeugen (de)
- Tworzymy Tech-Logo (pl)
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File / New: 500x300px. You can just work on the background layer. The color is irrelevant for this. Filter / Render / Coulds / Plasma. Choose any values.
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Filter / Blur / Pixelize: X:10 | Y:10
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Filter / Map / Bumpmap and enter the values of image below:
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You should get something like this:
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Next apply: Filter / Edge-Detect / Edges:
Algorithm.:Roberts
Amount: 2
Wrap -
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You can of course apply Colors / Brightness & Contrast to get some personal fine tuning. And also consider Filter / Enhance / Sharpen which looks cool too if you sharpen the image a bit.
Below you see 3 different versions of this and how it could look like!
This article is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria



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