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07 Jul 2007 01:13 AM

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: 1 of 5

15 comments have been posted so far.

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  1. 1
    File / New: 500x300px. You can just work on the background layer. The color is irrelevant for this. Filter / Render / Coulds / Plasma. Choose any values.
    Screenshot of step 1
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  2. 2
    Filter / Blur / Pixelize: X:10 | Y:10
    Screenshot of step 2
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  3. 3
    Filter / Map / Bumpmap and enter the values of image below:
    Screenshot of step 3
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  4. 4
    You should get something like this:
    Screenshot of step 4
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  5. 5
    Next apply: Filter / Edge-Detect / Edges:

    Algorithm.:Roberts
    Amount: 2
    Wrap
    Screenshot of step 5
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  6. 6
    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!
    Screenshot of step 6
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This article is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria

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  1. weirdpeople, 07 Jul 2007 08:29 AM

    nice thats a great tutorial and easy too :-)

  2. Nazomie, 23 Jul 2007 10:24 PM

    great job love this tutorial, it really helps ^_^ thnx

  3. halozmatt, 09 Sep 2007 05:33 PM

    that's pretty cool. here's my results hehe.

  4. halozmatt, 09 Sep 2007 05:35 PM

    that's awesome....


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  5. halozmatt, 10 Sep 2007 02:14 AM

    teh ownage i made one for a friend with same as mine, but then i undid it all and did the inverse of color balances ^_^


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  6. devvv, 10 Sep 2007 11:29 AM

    nice combination of thiose two tutorials ;)

  7. halozmatt, 11 Sep 2007 01:38 AM

    eh...thank you very much, i'm actually EXTREMELY new to 'the gimp' but eh, in 3 days just searching on gimpusers and gimp-tutorials, etc...gives you so much knowledge that it's actually educational, and the reason i've been doing it so much is because, lately...my internet has like been relly slow so i can't play halo lol...anyways thanks, friends ^.^?

  8. LordEimer, 16 Apr 2008 05:45 PM

    if you pixelize the result again with a smaller pixel-size, blur again, detect egdges again and overlay this with the first result you can get something like this


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  9. devvv, 16 Apr 2008 06:05 PM

    that looks pretty cool, i really like it ;)) thanks for posting this

  10. LordEimer, 19 Apr 2008 12:06 PM

    also works great as a text effect


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  11. Ozzy8, 06 Jun 2008 04:44 PM

    LordEimer: OH GOD! how to do that? :)

  12. LordEimer, 06 Jun 2008 07:14 PM

    It's been a while since I created this one, so I don't remember every step. But if you follow this, you should create something like it. 1) create a b/w Text layer (b text)(ca 1000x500) 2) create a clouds layer, set blend mode to lighten 3)merge layers 4)pixelize ( ca 12,text should still be readable) 5) blur ( 3px) 6)detect edges (roberts) 7)rescale image ( 2000x1000) 8) duplicate layer 9)set top layer blend mode to screen 10)pixelize 5 px (top layer) 11)blur 1 px (top ) 12) detect edges (sobel)(top) layer 13) merge layers, add colors and scale down again i hope this helps, perhaps you can figure out on your own how to improve it. Lord Eimer

  13. LordEimer, 06 Jun 2008 07:16 PM

    6 weeks is a while btw if yu don't write down what you do^^

  14. halozmatt, 10 Jun 2008 12:42 AM

    May i ask to put this on GimpDome?

  15. ryan, 12 Nov 2008 08:24 PM

    Nice and quick. thanks!

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