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 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
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