I'm making an Open Source software shelf on my links website.
Presently they are just simple boxes. The original box I rendered in Blender 3D, but then decided to make it vector in Inkscape so it can be exported to any resolution for use in GIMP projects.

These are the GIMP and Inkscape software boxes (styled to fit with the rest of my box set eventually). Both edited in GIMP using the perspective and text tools. (I love how clean these tools have gotten!)



I used the new GIMP logo I just made a few days ago, which can be downloaded in the resources section of the site, along with the vector files for the software box (cc0). Use as you wish.

Nicely done. It looks very very good.
They would make excellent icons for any program launcher like RocketDock for instance.

Nice designs. Professional looking.

Thanks! Was much easier to design than the packaging I do for retail stores.
I don't get my boss saying "Metalic foil?! Do you have ANY idea how expensive that is?" X)

The results of the Perspective tool in GIMP may be just a little bit better than Photoshop (as of CS3). Just wish the original would get out of the way while distorting the perspective. Does anyone know a "fix" for that? It's a minor annoyance, but if there's a way around it, I'd love to know.

Certainly some nice looking boxes and would make a great icon set.

Put the transform tool in corrective mode and change the line number to 1.That puts the grid and the image out of the way.

It's not the grid that's the issue, it's that when you use the perspective tool, the original (untransformed) version stays opaque, so you are forced to either set its opacity before transforming, or move it completely out of the way before transforming. In Photoshop, for example, when you perspective transform, it applies it to the actual layer,and doesn't create a floating layer over the original, thus the original is not in your way while transforming.

Corrective mode is downright wacky. The results are nothing near what the grid indicates.

Should have mentioned it does say *Corrective - backward* So anything you warp will be opposite.

Uh? The transform tools (perspective and others) give you a preview which is above all other layers otherwise it would be very difficult to work on the bottom layers. The opacity of this preview can be adjusted in the Tools options. The source layer is not automatically hidden because there are very many cases where the transform should be applied with regard to the source layer, but if/when needed you can set the visibility/opacity of the source layer at any time while the transform tools is operating using the usual controls in the Layers list.

In 'corrective' mode you use the grid to indicate what should be vertical/horizontal in the final result, and the tools applies a reverse transform to make it so. This is also true in other tools, for instance, with the rotate tool, you can straighten a photograph with a tilted horizon: you set the horizontal lines in the grid parallel to the horizon, and the tool rotates the image to make your horizon horizontal.

Actually, in nearly every case I've encountered (and I do a LOT of photo editing for my work), I'd like to remove the original from view while using the perspective... I'm having a hard time figuring out under what circumstances you would want the original under it as the default, since it blocks your view of everything under it. Maybe if you were doing some sort of animation? But then, wouldn't it just be better to duplicate your layer and apply the transform to the next layer (since you'd be using layers as frames anyway). But anyway, Your trick of turning off the active layer happily does not also turn off the perspective preview, so that works nicely to get the original out of the way. It's one more click, but worth it to get rid of the annoyance. Wish there was a hotkey for it (I know you can set one, but you have to have the layer selected for it to work). I would love a checkbox for it in the tool options!

Ah well. Thanks for the tip!

I can see why that's useful for the rotation tool... but has anyone successfully used the perspective tool to do that? I can deconstruct and turn 3d shapes inside out in my head, and I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the results. lol