I found the ring easy to follow but the other way looks good too. I've got this far. I used G'MIC for the dots so it looks a bit different to yours.



I've been looking at your work on Deviantart and it is excellent. I particularly like this one.
http://kristinahetfield.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=96#/d313mxi

Sorry i missed your question before hahaha...

For the moon shapes you can follow the next method:

1. in a new layer draw a circle selection using the ellipse selection Tool and fill it in white, using the bucket tool or the brush.
(For this, you can recover the selection from the path you saved before, or try to make a fresh new selection th same size the circle of the gauge).
2. Deselect pressing CTRL+SHIFT+A
3. With the Ellipse tool draw again a circle selection BUT now try to leave a piece of the white circle unselected (this will be the moon), play with the selection size in order to get the moon shape unselected, and the rest of the white circle must be inside your selection (Try the make a bigger selection than the gauge circle and move it to the right side of the gauge circle)
3. Once you got the moon unselected just erase your selection (the rest "not moon" white circle). THIS IS THE SMALLER MOON

For the BIGGER MOON...

4. You need to repeat the earlier steps, and try to make a thicker moon, like three or four times the thick of the small moon.
Once you have it...

4.1 apply a gaussian blur filter, (i previously colorized the moon just for a better look in the tutorial for this step, but it's not neccesary).
4.2. Recover the selection from the path and inverse it, [menu select>inverse] (or do the same thing of step 1) this is for erase the external border of the bigger moon
4.3. Erase this selection for fit the blurred moon inside the gauge circle.

5*. Use the Scale tool (Shift+T) for fit both moon layers to the gauge circle in case you need a better fit of them,
*BUT if you did it right, you don't have to do this step

6. Just adjust both layers opacity and you are done.


I hope you find it useful.




and thanks for watching my doodles at dA :B

Thank you. It all seems obvious now.

Thanks to YOU!! =D

Hey i've been looking your fractals.... im so in love with this one... it is just sick =).
Which soft u used??

Actually it's a way easier to order text and make it to "check" with the image, you save space, and plus... anyone can save it without need to create another file like a Word document to save it.... i hate that, also you can add a background or signature or just the images without the need of upload them one by one, obviously it lacks of explanation in every step, but you have the comment section for that

BTW, thanks for watching! =D and in case you need help, just ask

Glad you like them. That one is one of my favourites and I think I did it with Tierazon and Gimp. I've got so many fractal programs I can't remember which one but most of the 2D ones were done with Tierazon. You're welcome to take a copy if you want. The only thing I ask with my work is that it is not used commercially and if you display it anywhere you make it clear that it is not your own.

I had a few problems with this and it didn't turn out perfect but I learnt some new things in the process. Thank you very much.

Hi , Definitely a tut for advanced Gimp folk. The directions are vague and really only give broad directions. For instance in your tut your pictures show drop shadows in places but there is no mention of where or how to do that. I guess it was your intention for people to follow an idea rather than a precise workflow.
Having said that, I really enjoyed the challenge to come up with something like what you have done. So thank You.
Here is my interpretation of your tut.

Wow, how much more perfect can you get than that. KUDO's Wbool.

Edit: Ooops, I didn't see yours Erisian, very good KUDO's to both of your

Thank you Molly. It was difficult but what did come out right I'm pleased with.

Nice work Wbool.