Hi...
Thank you for offering me this space to share my tests and creations.
I am a beginner with Gimp and thanks to the video tutorials I am progressing in my learning.

Here are some small tests that I share with pleasure...
Excuse my French (!!) lol, I am Belgian.

Lula, What a great start! I like those text looks.

Lovely text Lula

It's nice to see GIMPressionist being used. It's a very old filter but I like it and have been playing with it recently on the text effects thread. I think forgetting to hit it's Apply button is easily done and may put people off.

It's by discovering the creations of teapot and other members that I investigated GIMPressionist and yess... I had to start over several times indeed !
Thanks a lot Issabella and teapot for sharing your creations, I appreciate it !

Great work lula. Keep posting!

I will do it Sallyanne and thank you all for your encouragement.

digital stitching

Do you have that with embrouder scm. file created?
If not I would like to know how you did it

Hi Jappaloe63,

My references are a video that explain the effect with layer mask.
I wrote this tutorial in french without considering the layer masks and I hope you will understand this translation.
Of course you can modify the settings and use layer masks.

- Create a new image... 800/350px on GMIC choose denim
- Text tool... font : Bahnschrift Semi-Bold - Semi-Condensed of another one, size 117px
- write the text
- new transparent layer and name it "outline 1"
- alpha to selection on the text
- draw the selection (tracer la sélection): choose line style with thickness 2 white color or other.
- selection : none
- duplicate the obtained outline and name it "outline 2"
- on layer autline1... filter : distortion - ripple (french word = onduler)
- play with the sliders to obtain a tight ripple (horizontal)
- do the same thing with the layer "contour 2" but this time try to obtain it vertically.
- erase on one of the contour layers, the places that don't look sharp (especially corners and rounded).

I beveled the text slightly before merging it with the other layers.

Thank you for the quick response, I'll try it right away.
There is also a scm file (especially in 2.8 it works well) to create this.

I just added some text in my message.
As soon as I find the video I will inform you of the link

Nicely done, Lula and welcome to GIMPChat.

Lylejk.

Nice embroidery Lula. Thank you for explaining how it's done, I have done your steps and it works nicely

It's great how the translation tool allows me to participate with all of you and I'm glad
you could understand the translated lines. I wish you a good weekend.

This little mandala calmed me down after a storm of nervousness!

Nice Lula.

Dinasset

wtg Lula, Well done

Well done, Lula. Your mandala is a nice creation.