>I wanted to make a rough metallic surface and I ended up with this by >fiddling around with a back-to-white gradient and emboss it. I finally >got a clean 200x200 image that alings seamlessy and can be used as a >pattern:
>http://www.staldal.nu/gimp/patterns/metallic.pat >(You can make it golden by colorify with yellow.) >Are there any other strateiges for making a rough metallic surface? >(Feel free to use this pattern if you like it.) You might use a bump map. Open a suitable image, plenty if you search google images, in your case perhaps part of a larger image as a base. Then in your new image it is filters -> map -> bumpmap and point at the 'rusted' image. You get an effect like this. http://i.imgur.com/73HYK.jpg Since you are aiming at a small image for a tilable pattern, then its filters -> map -> make tilable. -- rich (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
