Here is my Chrismas Ornament Tutorial. Please enjoy!

01) Create new square blank image.
02) Paste Selected image into square image.



03) Layer > Layer to image size on pasted layer.
04) Layer > Transparency > Add alpha channel.
05) Name layer "Ornament"



06) Layer > Scale Layer> Width = 50%
> Hight = 100%
07) Layer > Layer to image size on "Ornament" layer.
08) Duplicate layer and name it "Ball".
09) On Ball layer
Filter > Map Object > Sphere
> Transparent Background
> Position x,y and z at 0.5000



10) On Ornament layer
Layer > Scale Layer> Width = 25%
> Hight = 50%
11) Move Ornament layer to create top.



12) Create new layer named ring.
13) Fill new layer with "7f7f7f" gray.
14) Filters > Noise > RGB Noise > Independant RGB off
> Red, Green and Blue = 0.30
15) Filters > Distort > Wind
> Wind
> Left
> Leading
> Thresh = 10
> Strength = 10
16) Duplicate layer and name cap



17) Filters > Generic > Mathmap
> From Nadie Zenith



18) Using rectangular select tool delete bottom half of layer.



19) Layer > Scale Layer> Width = 50%
> Hight = 100%
20) Move Layer to left edge.
21) Layer to image size.
22) Duplicate layer
23) Layer > Transform > Flip Horizontal
24) Merge two layers.



25) Create a new transparent layer and name it blank.
26) On Cap layer
Filters > Map > Map Object > Cylinder
> Transparent Background
> Position x and y at 0.5000
> Position z at 0.0000
> Cylinder Radius = 0.10
> Cylender length = 0.80
> Set bottom to Blank layer



27) Resize cap to fit onto the top and move into place.



28) Merge cap, ball and ornament layers.
29) Move assembled ornament down to make room for ring.
30) On ring layer Filters > Map object > Sphere
> Transparent background
31) Alpha to select.
32) Select shrink 20.
33) Edit > Cut.
34) Resize ring layer to make tiny ring at top.
35) Move Ring into place.
36) Move ring layer below Ornament layer.
37) Fill blank layer with selected background color.
38) Move Blank layer below Ring layer.



After moving and adding shadow, this is the final result.

Very Nice - i m gonna try that one someday soon. Thank you for the tut.

I need to find a really cool pic to make into an ornament!

Here are a couple other ornaments I have done.

Those are awesome, where do you get the filter for the mathmap?
17) Filters > Generic > Mathmap
> From Nadie Zenith

Mathmap is available at the plugin registry @ http://registry.gimp.org/node/22298

I installed it, it reminds me of GMIC...so many fun toys to play with! =)
Thanks PhotoMaster.

Mathmap is something I always liked, because I have always been big into math.

It was definitely worth the download. Nice and easy to install too. =)

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04, and I don't see "From Nadie Zenith" in my Mathmap.

Greg, I did that tutorial last year and loved it. I just got my new pc with windows 7 and I re installed Math Map. It doesn't have the to Nadie Zenith and From Nadie with it. Is there a separate place to get this? Thanks.......

I had to reinstall Gimp on the new machine and only noticed now that this code was missing. You can get it from PhotoComix at http://photocomix-resources.deviantart. ... evit&qo=76

Thanx PM. I downloaded it and it is a folder with several mm files. Do I put the whole folder into expressions, OR just what is in it one at a time?

EDIT: Obviously I put the folder in the wrong place cuz the files don't show up in the mathmap-extra-2-Ecquirectangular tab.... grrrrrrrrr

Thanks, PM. In Ubuntu, I created .gimp-2.6/mathmap/expressions/ folders, fired it up and voila!

mahvin, I have the expressions folder but I don't know where to put it. I placed it in gimp-2.6 mathmap but they don't show up when I open
mathmap-extra-2-Ecquirectangular tab. They should show up in this tab....

I'm using Ubuntu. It should be working for you in Win 7. On my office desktop, my mathmap/expressions folders are in .gimp-2.6, and it is working.

If you had GIMP open when you made any changes, you'll need to close it and start it back up again for the changes to take effect.

I had them in 2.6, didn't work, then put them in gimppressionist, didn't work. rebooted Gimp every time I changed it. Anyway, thanx mav, maybe something will come up,

Molly: Don't give up so quickly. From what I read on PC's deviantart site, some presets are Linux only? If anyone would know what's going on here, it should be him. Let's hope he finds this and helps solve the issue. We might have to create a new post to get his attention.

I had it in before when I had XP but here is a screen shot of where I have it this time.

Thanks guys, it is in there now but not where it was the last time I had those filters. but anyway I know how to find them. Thanks for all the help. Solved......