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Create a mystic chaos Voodoo-Pattern
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.
This article has been written using GIMP 2.3.18.
It's divided into 7 steps and takes about
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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
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Filter / Artistic / Cubism. Look at the values of the picture.
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Filter / Blur / Gaussian Blur: 2px.
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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.
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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):
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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).
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Done ;) Have fun with this kind of background!
This article is licensed under the following license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Austria
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