Perhaps some LED tape or rope, not specifically badged as Xmas. IKEA do it, but the bare tape is pretty much generic now.
Reminds me I must do something with a spool of it I have hanging around! Adrian Midgley http://defoam.net/ http://defoam.net/photo.defoam.net/ On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 at 20:30, Akkana Peck <akk...@shallowsky.com> wrote: > > dboland9 via gimp-user-list writes: > > I plan to take some pictures of some Christmas poinsettias with pine > > branches around the pot and think the picture would be better if there were > > white (warm) LED lights in the picture. The problem is that the string > > needs to be fairly short, and stores have sold out all Christmas lights. > > So, my next option is to create them in GIMP. Anyone done this and can you > > offer a genera procedure? > > I'm sure there are people better at this than I am, but I had a > similar problem when I was making > https://shallowsky.com/images/cards/squirrelcard.jpg > and it was quite a few years ago, but as I recall, the steps were: > > - Get a photo of a single light. Erase the background so the image > has just the light. > - Add a fuzzy circle in a color that matches the light > (new layer, ellipse select, feather edges, fill, then fiddle > with the layer transparency) > - Add a white speck in the middle where the light filament should > be if the light in the photo wasn't on > - Flatten this light image and make several copies of it at the > right size to paste into your image > - Use the Hue slider in Colors->Hue-Saturation to change the > copies to other colors. > - Paste copies of lights of different colors around the base image, > and rotate each one semi-randomly. > > Then you need the wire connecting them. I don't know how to draw a > realistic looking multi-stranded electrical wire, but you can make a > strangely realistic looking string by playing with settings in the > Smudge tool: try starting with a smudge rate of 100% and a > hard-edged brush. It doesn't look like a real electrical cord, but > at least it looks like a three-dimensional string instead of a line > someone drew in a graphics app. > > Good luck, have fun! > > ...Akkana > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
