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 Post subject: the slightly psychedelic paisley machine tut
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:17 pm  (#1) 
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another paisley tutorial - just what you all were waiting for!
i tried to find a way of making my bohemian blob paisleys that didn't involve iwarp, since it's hard to give exact instructions for the iwarp filter and i know many people don't like it. here's one thing i came up with while i was experimenting - it will involve a little work in the last step, but otherwise it should be pretty simple to do. i call it "the slightly psychedelic paisley machine" because the colour and general look of the paisleys are a bit psychedelic and because it's a little like mass producing, you get four paisley units from one image.

step 1: open new image, 600X600 pxl.

step 2: get the gradient tool, set it to radial. draw gradient from centre of image. i used skyline gradient for this, but it doesn't really matter, the colours will change in the next step anyway.

step 3: open g'mic - artistic - warhol and play with the colour settings til you get something you like. click ok.

step 4: go to filters - distort - whirl and pinch. i use these settings (my gimp copy speaks swedish, but i think you can manage):
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sometimes you have to pull the pinching amount up or down a little to get the right shape, just do as you please with that!

step 5: the warhol filter is a bit messy, so i usually try to tidy up the edges afterwards, smoothing and antialiasing.

step 6: now you will have something looking like this picture:
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maybe you like this pattern as it is and want to keep it, otherwise just use your favie cutting technique to extract your four paisley units - and you're done :)!
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 Post subject: Re: the slightly psychedelic paisley machine tut
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:30 pm  (#2) 
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Very nice AnMal.
That pink paisley shot above could be a duck if you paint a beak on it. and call it Daisy, lol

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:41 pm  (#3) 
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molly: hehe, like this:
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:59 pm  (#4) 
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yah, so cute and the one beside it that was flipped would be a nice bird of prey or...a bird of some kind

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:30 pm  (#5) 
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That was fun. :bigthup

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That was so much fun I did another. I made the radius 1.295 which left some small transparent areas around it so I picked a color out of the image and made a background filled with the color and merged the two of them.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:58 pm  (#6) 
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That is very nice O, I didn't get started with the tute yet cuz I was playing with Daisy.
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Oh, Molly and AnMal, Daisy never looked so good. That's very clever of both you. :paint

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O, that's beautiful results! i particularly liked the bottom one because it would give eight paisleys to play around with instead of four :).

molly: oh that's so cute!

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:34 am  (#9) 
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Thank you AnMal. I do like your Daisy Molly.


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Here's mine

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:44 pm  (#11) 
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A lot of money could have been saved in the 70s if this was around.

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erisian: nice work - looks very seventies!

gms9810: you're right there! and the brilliant young (okay, almost young) inventor would make some serious dough. know anyone with a time machine?

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