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GIMP version: 2.3.18
Category: Simple effects
Author: AtroCty
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Needed time: ca. 5 min
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Tutorial: Create a mystic chaos Voodoo-Pattern
Written by AtroCty (06 Jul 2007 07:34 PM)
This tutorial shows you a simple effect which should look like mystical symbols of witches (Voodoo). I hope you understand it well, because it's my first (english) tutorial.
- Of course we make a new file first. I take a size of 1000x400px, its the double size of a regular signature. (I do this for a better look, you can make it smaller later of course) Background-color: White

click to enlarge - Filter / Artistic / Cubism. Look at the values of the picture.

click to enlarge - Filter / Blur / Gaussian Blur: 2px.

click to enlarge - Now the picture is little blurred. Do Filter / Edge-Detect / Edge... now and take these values. You can play around and take what you want.

click to enlarge - We're almost done now ;) But the picture looks boring without color. You can colorize it by your own. I took these values (Colors / Colorize):

click to enlarge - Optionally you can duplicate the layer and set the layers mode (fint it at top of the layers dialog , above all layers) to "Addition". The pattern looks much more saturated then (see left side of the image below, the original is to the right).

click to enlarge - Done ;) Have fun with this kind of background!

This work is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria.
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From: candicenixon (27 Jun 2008 09:56 PM)
Forgot to mention:
Circle Depth Perception: 100.00
Offset angle: 0
From: candicenixon (27 Jun 2008 09:54 PM)
After the last step, I did
Filters/Distorts/Polar Coordinates then unchecked "to polar" and "Map Backwards" and left "Map from Top" checked. Gave it a different sort of look anyway :)
From: Sarah (02 Mar 2008 10:18 PM)
Nice tut! simple but very good for a bg!
From: Phillipe (23 Aug 2007 03:14 PM)
First tutorial i've used to create GIMP background. Very good and well explained. Thx
From: Jazmine (16 Aug 2007 01:01 AM)
oh well who cares about those little mistakes,
that wus a good turtiol [sp?]
i got it in the first shot
From: devvv (22 Jul 2007 11:22 PM) – Send a private message
Thanks, i added it to the text now. The Tutorial is based on 2.3.18, so it's Colors / Colorize ;)
From: Lorrnae (22 Jul 2007 09:30 PM) – Send a private message
#5
Another one
Layers/Color/Colorize
From: Lorrnae (22 Jul 2007 09:26 PM) – Send a private message
CORRECTION-
Number 5 is
Filters/Color/Channel Mixer
From: Lorrnae (22 Jul 2007 09:21 PM) – Send a private message
#5 could be to
Filters/Color/Colorfy or Filters/Color/Channel Mixer
From: Lorrnae (22 Jul 2007 09:08 PM) – Send a private message
Number 4 is wrong. On the english version it is actually
Filter/Edge-Detect/Edge
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