thanks man, i fixed that

esper and ek22: you two should take up fortune telling as an alternative career...

bubble paisleys was of course what i started to think of as soon as i read ek22:s tut, then i had to experiment with those lovely things esper did with the rainbow effect (great job, brother!!!) so i wasn't ready to post anything till now. i'm still not happy with the bubbles, i don't get that soap bubble look that esper got on his by using plasma cloud and the g'mic water filter and also0 my bubbles look more like drops - but i still liked the look of this particular paisley so much i could post it. i put an extra set of highlights on the bubbles to help up the roundness a bit.

Look at that adorable paisley. It came out so shiny. Nice job AnMal.

AnMal, i like what you did and looking at your result, you could make some grapes with this technique as well

its true, yours look like drops, but i really like that !
maybe you should change the dropshadow a bit

how did you get the highlights that are on the side ?

ek22: it is adorable, isn't it? paisleys usually are. thank you!
esper: thank you! hmm, grapes, you say? i've never made a paisley out of grapes....
i wondered about the dropshadow. maybe if i make it larger and put it directly behind the drops/bubbles it will give the illusion of bubbles.
the highlights are just made the same way the other highlights were but with the light falling from the side, then i curve shaped them a bit and moved them a bit to the right.

btw, here is the layer i used for the iridescent soap bubbles

I got rounder bubbles from not having a drop shadow outside of the bubble itself. All the shading and highlights I used in my original tut are inside the bubbles instead. Though on the rainy gimpchat banner, I did use almost the same technique with an outside dropshadow and it looks a lot more like drops there. Hope that helps.

ready for the script, Graechan? I hope so.....

ek22 - excellent tutorial.

I had already created an image that would be perfect for the air bubbles, so just had to overlay them.

Nice looking result he4rty, I'm glad you had a good use for the bubbles. Even if the subject of that picture is kinda heavy, it still looks awesome.

he4rty: really nice picture, well done brother! i like how you've combined all tho0se techniques.

i'm still trying to make soap bubble paisleys and still not quite making it - but as you can see i get nice looking stuff on the way ...

Looking good Graechan.

OMG look how nice that is. It looks like pearls. Nice Grae.

Nice work.

Thanks very much for this !
I´m on the lowest level of image manipulation skills you can imagine so I at first found your manual very hard to follow. But with a few extra searches i finnaly got it to work!
Attaches my final result.