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 Post subject: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:05 am  (#1) 
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The spider brush again. Last time it made fuzzy slippers here.

This time the spider brush becomes tinsel on a tree.

Original tree found here.

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Open your tree image. Make a new layer, fill it with white, and move it below your tree. You can delete it later. It's easier to see the paths with white behind them.

Lower the opacity on your tree layer so that it's faint but so you can still see it well.

Make a new transparent layer above your tree layer and name it tinsel.

Select the Paths tool :pathtool . Make a straight path from one side of the tree to the other.

Hold down the Shift key and click the beginning of the next path, let go the Shift key and make a straight path to the other side.

Keep doing this until you have enough paths on your tree.

Start dragging the lines of the paths downward to make curved paths.

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Curve every path.

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When you have finished curving each path, be sure to restore the opacity of the tree to 100%

Select the Paintbrush :brush and find the black spider brush.

Use these settings:

Any color.
Size: 0.25
Jitter: 1.3
Spacing: 15 (You will need to do Ctrl + Shift + B to get to this setting in the brushes dialog)

Make sure the tinsel layer is the active layer.

Edit > Stroke Path > Stroke with a paint tool. Be sure Paintbrush is the Paint tool selected, Stroke.

Repeat. (Stroking twice makes the tinsel fluffier.)

Lock the transparency on the tinsel layer, click the Bucket fill tool :bucket , choose Pattern fill, find the Gold glitter pattern, make sure Fill whole selection is ticked in the dialog, and click in the image.

Merge the tinsel layer to the tree layer. You can delete the white background layer.

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If you are better at mousing than I am, you could simply paint the tinsel on with the paintbrush.

Attached below is the spider-glitters.zip file containing:
goldglitter.pat
silverglitter.pat
blackspider.gih

Unzip and put the two .pat files in the /.gimp-2.6 patterns folder and the blackspider.gih file in the /.gimp-2.6 brushes folder.


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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:08 am  (#2) 
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Thanks O!
That looks really cool. =)

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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:53 pm  (#3) 
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Awesome tutorial, and talk about easy!! It took me a while to create my image, because getting the tree image as a render (no background at all) was tricky. Here is my first attempt, using the same tree for the starting image.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:21 pm  (#4) 
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Nice. I like your silver and gold mix tinsel.

I never thought of attaching my stickman tree render. Doing that now.


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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
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Attempt number two.


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Ah, you've added some color to the mix and I really love that glittery, glowing star at the top. Very nice, Greg!

I love that stickman tree. Simple and charming.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:12 pm  (#7) 
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Greg. love your tree, SWEET.... O, I like what you did with your sig and avatar.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:43 pm  (#8) 
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O should have now a great collections of cool O avatar
But i too like a lot this new one

And i love the idea of using a spiderbrush for xmas tree ornament :coolthup

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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:28 pm  (#9) 
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Tried glitzing one up a bit.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:52 am  (#10) 
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That would make a real cool Christmas card. =)

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:48 am  (#11) 
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@ PhotoComix - :tyspin Yes, my avatar and sig collections are growing. :hehe

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Experimenting with twining (twisting) two strands together and colorizing.

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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:24 pm  (#14) 
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Very pretty Molly. I like your added decorations and the sparkling star. :hi5

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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
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Everyone does such wonderful work!! I love the sparklies and the twisties!!

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 Post subject: Re: Put Tinsel on a Tree
PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2018 6:13 am  (#17) 
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Looks like something Tim Burton would conjure up: "The Tale of the Stick Figure Santa."


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