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