Been experimenting again so here goes....

Step 1. Open new image any size and go to Filters>Render>Clouds>Solid Noise and set the detail to 15 and the X and Y values to 5 as shown here.



You should now have some clouds that look similar to this



Step 2. Next, go to Filters>G’mic>Contours>Local Orientation and enter the settings as shown.



Your image will look similar to this.



Step 3. Here’s where we make it look like crinkled tin foil. Go to Colors>Curves and use one of the chrome settings shown below. Save these settings by clicking on the little plus sign at the top of the Curves dialog and then enter the file names as shown. I will use three different settings I have saved as “Max Chrome”, “Medium Chrome” and “Soft Chrome” to demonstrate the different results and the amount of “crinkle”.

Soft Chrome settings


Soft Chrome results


Medium Chrome settings


Medium Chrome results


Max Chrome settings


Max Chrome results


As you can see, you can get dramatic results by simply adjusting the curves settings. I use these settings quite often when making metallic effects so saving these settings will keep you from having to recreate them over and over again.

If you want to get even more variations, try changing the settings on your Solid noise layer and then apply the same chrome setting variables with a few minor changes. Here are a few examples using different Noise settings and a couple of other filters:

Noise - Detail 1
X = 5
Y = 5

Noise - Detail 3
X = 3
Y = 3

G’mic>Contours>Local Orientation. Set the Smoothness to .50 and use Medium Chrome for curves. Then go to G’mic>Presets & Testing>Photocomix Smoothing and Filters>Enhance>Unsharp Mask.

Here are the settings for the last two Smoothing & Unsharp Mask filters mentioned above.





Here’s what the results look like now.





Next, make new Noise layers with the following settings.

Noise - Detail 5
X = 5
Y = 5

Noise - Detail 10
X = 3
Y = 3

Now use the same set of 4 filters as in the above examples with only small changes in the last two.

In the Smoothness filter dialog, change the Gradient Smoothness setting to 0 and in the Unsharp Mask dialog, change the Amount setting to .50 and here is what they look like.





Not a lot of change in these but you be the judge of which settings and filters looks the best to you.

Add a transparent layer above your creation, fill it with any color and set the layer mode to “Overlay”.





I hope this wasn’t too long but you can see there are endless possibilities after the initial three steps

Have fun!

Well done! I remember how amazed I when I first used those S-shaped curves in the Curves dialog, at the time the results did not make any sense to me (why should an S-curve make things all shiny and metallic?).

2 of the illustrations don't load (that above the last 2)

nice use of the curve tool

DAP uses similar curves for metallic texture (the new 64-bit version of DAP that is) so I've seen these curves before there. Do you have the curve adjustments available to share (I know; could just create them myself and save; lazy I am. lol). Very cool result with the tinfoil too by the way.

very nice foil drac. I love shiny stuff.

Nice tinfoil tutorial Draconian!
Thanks for sharing it with us.

What kind of a gimper would I be to deny the Great Krolsky.

Here ya go big guy.

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments (soaking it up like a sponge)
I don't know why some of the pics did not load so I included the zipped pdf.

Thanks; they work quite well.

Yes they do works well thank a lot for sharing
I was not so interested to create tin foil , but i love the metallic effect of your curve preset

Tom created for gmic a filter "metallic look" that also use curve to emulate different metallic material but apparently the manual process give better results

Your pdfs came in fine, but what do I save the 7zip extensions as? All I'm seeing is filename.file and where do I put them?
Thanks

I don't see them either.
Thanks

Thank you Graechan. It worked.

in your gimp user folder inside the curve folder

don't worry for the extension name, it is not needed but in case a txt extension will be accepted (but again is not needed )

Thank you too.

I'm not sure if this helps but you have to have 7zip installed (free up to date zip utility software) in order to open the zip file, then just save (not save as) to desktop or any folder you like. the file is a pdf file and has to be opened with Adobe reader (also a free application).

Thanks Draconian I have both 7zip and Adobe reader. That wasn't the problem. I didn't know where to put the files once unzipped, but was told and they are working.
Thanks

AHhhhhhhhh. I understand what you meant now. Glad you got 'em working.