This tutorial is in response to how to create a certain design, I haven't come up with this design only interrupted it into a tut, The original design is by micki and is a commercial venture for them, they have allowed the tutorial to show how bottlecaps can be made with Gimp, but please do respect its their intellectual property. THANKS.


Create a new image in gimp 512px * 512px and fill with white. Right click on Layer and in drop down Menu select "Add Alpha Channel"

Go Filters>Alpha to Logo>Bovination, settings should be default and the same as attached image. Then Click OK.



You should now have 3 Layers in your Layers Dialogue Box, Background#1, Blur & Background. Delete the Layer named Blur.
Select the Layer named "Background#1" and go Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, settings should be default and the same as attached image. Then Click OK.



From the Toolbox select the Rotate Tool and click anywhere on your main image, this should bring up the rotate tool window, change angle to 75 and click rotate.



Next we need to create two guides to locate the centre of the image, go Image>Guide>New Guide(by percent) and set direction to Horizontal and Position to 50 click Ok.
Repeat the above step but change Direction to Vertical, you should now see to guide on your image as below, if not go View and make sure show guides and snap to guides are ticked.



Change your foreground colour to ff69b4, then go Layer>New Layer and change settings to those shown in image and click OK.



Change foreground colour to adff2f, then go Layer>New Layer and change settings to those shown in image and click OK.



Now from the ToolBox select the move tool and click and hold left mouse button on your green layer and move it to centre of image, you should notice a tiny little crosshair denoting centre of layer, move this crosshair to the point where your guides cross and it should snap to that point, once happy with the postion release the left mouse button. Your image should now look the same as below.



Make sure you are still on the green layer and go Edit>Copy Visible then Go Edit>paste As>New Layer. Select this new Layer and turn all other layers off except the white Background Layer, you turn layer off by clicking on the small eye icon next to layer.

From you toolbox select the Elipse Section Tool and start to draw an elipse then you can change settings in the elipse window as shown in image below.



Go Select>Invert then Edit>Clear and finally Select None.
Go Layer>New Layer name Layer "Pink Flower" and make sure height & Width are set to 512px and that transparency is also checked click OK. Select this layer.



Make sure your foreground colour is set to ff69b4 this is the pink colour we used earlier. The from Toolbox select your Elipse Selection Tool again and start to draw an elipse then change settings in the elipse window as shown.



From ToolBox select your Bucket fill Tool and click inside selection to fill with pink.
Then go to your brush Dialogue window and right click anywhere on the brushes and from the new drop down menu select "New Brush" enter settings as shown below.



Make sure you have this brush selected.

From Toolbox select the Paintbrush Tool and just check your brush is the chosen one and all other settings are unchecked and the same as the image below.



Go Select>Selection Editor this should open up your selection editor from the icons across the bottom click the last icon "Paint Along Selection" this should bring up this window make sure settings are the same and click stroke



Your image should be the same as shown.



Go Select>Shrink and change value to 12 and click OK. the go Edit>Clear, Create a new Layer and call it "White Centre", Select this Layer and from Toolbox select the bucket fill tool and fill selection with the Colour White. Then go Select>None

Make sure your foreground colour is ff69b4 the pink colour already used and that the layer White Centre is selected then from Toolbox select the text tool , click on your image an this should bring up the "Gimp Text Editor" enter text and in the Text dialogue window you can change the font and size of your text, this may well vary depending on the font you have chosen. I'm using a Linux version of gimp so fonts are slightly different but if your using a window version then there used to be a font called lucinda's Handwriting which might suit the style you are after better.



With your text layer selected go Layer>Autocrop and then from toolbox select the Move Tool and as before position text to centre of image, you will need to click on part of the text to move layer, otherwise you'll find yourself moving some of the lower layers, you can always turn off all layers until you have positioned you text Layer where you want it then switch them back on.

Finally and I know its not part of the original but I wanted the Pink Flower to Stand out more, so select the layer "Pink Flower then go Filter>Light and Shadow>Drop Shadow you can use the defaults as shown in the image then click OK.



Thats it, now if you want to change the text all you need do is turn off your text layer and reselect the text tool and type in and position the new text.

Also if you want to scale your image go Edit>Copy Visible then Edit>Paste As>New Image, this will open up your picture as a new gimp file so as not to damage your original, the go Image>Scale Image here you can change your width and height.

Heres my final image.



And heres the XCF file

Bottletop.xcf

Although the image in the tutorial is all very girly, I do like the results, but I just had to get all this girly stuff out of my system.

So I created one for boys.....

thats fab i have loads of ideas but the bottom pattern how do i get different styes like leopard and flower patterns what do i have to down load for them , ive downloaded some fonts and brushes and added them xxx

he4rty: a well made tutorial. i liked the rock star badge too - but come on, what's wrong with girly? no one died of a little pink fluff .

If you have a jpg or png file then you can simply go File>open as Layer and this will open your jpg/png as a new layer in your image.

Also so can use the bucket fill tool and set fill to Pattern and then choose a pattern from your dialogue window.

The post here has a lot of patterns to try Post your Patterns & Textures you'll find that some of the patterns will be a file.pat and these will need to be placed in your patterns folder hers a link to a much better explination about Patterns and Gimp in general Gimp Manual

Wow... finally a precise tutorial on round images i want to learn about... yaayyy!!

I created one example using Hearty's tutorial, i got farther this time without giving up right away... LOL ! Although i could not turn them into 1" bottle cap images and into a template. When i tried to cut and paste, it only cut the center image. Also didn't figure out how to get into the brush editor to create the flower look. BUT I'LL KEEP TRYING... trials and errors ughhff!

Nice one 2CUTE4U, keep at it.
Check the lower right side Brushes dialog for the Edit Brush button.

2cute4u: you're getting there now! nice job.
if you haven't already figured it out, this is what odin said but with picture aid:

if you have a window with this row of symbols, you can click where the pink dot is.


if you don't have that window up, you can go to the toolbox and click where the pink dot is instead. the pink dot in both my images mark the brush menu, where you can select brushes.



when you get up the brush menu, just click where the pink dot is in my image, and it will take you to the editor window that he4rty showed in his tut.



good luck!

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One more question please. How do i make the image go underneath the template. I want to make a 4x6
1" bottle cap images sheet. Thank you all so much, my images are not to clean but I'm not a quiter!!!

2cute4u: i think you need to look at your layer list more often . if you only get the center of the image copied it's probably because that is the active layer. either make a new layer from visible (right click a layer in the layer list, then select "new from visible") and copy that layer, or do a "copy visible" (shift + ctrl + c or edit -> copy visible). that gives you the whole picture in the clipboard. also make sure you don't have any selections on before you do this.
to get your image into the template just open the template in gimp, paste the image as a new layer and then scale it to size. i think the simplest way when you want a set size is to go to image -> scale image, choose "inches" instead of "pixels" in the drop-down list and then just scale. move the resized image to where you want it, copy it, go to "layer - layer to image size" and then paste in the rest of the images in the right places. when you're done you can click the green down-arrow at the bottom of the layer list, that will move the images down below the template layer.

Thank you Anmal. I'm taking notes. I'll post my results soon