How I Create BRL Images With Gimp (Bevel Reflect)

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nice 2-ton, it is nice to see you experimenting. Can,t figure which one I like best.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 5:38 pm **(#22)**

2-ton wrote:

By jove, I think I've got it. The basics, anyway, thanks to the clear tutorial! I also fiddled around with different ways of hiding the areas that brl misses, gaussian blur, painting a lower layer, enlarging a selection and bucket filling in a lower layer. Many ways to skin a cat, as Lyle likes to say. As for turning photos into brl-ready pics, that's for another time.
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BRL chicken, nice. :bigthup

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:12 pm **(#23)**

Just watched your excellent video Wallace; thank you for that. You actually emphasised some points that as yet I have not attended to in my use of BRL, like the bleeding of colour, smoothing and adding selections for consistent shape contours; there is always something to learn!

In a number of my previous attempts I have used the line art as an over/underlay to improve the detail visibility. One of the other joys of this script is all the available options, for which it takes some time to understand what will be output - so plenty of surprises in that area.

So after watching your video I knocked up a BRL image from a photo of my kangaroo paw flowers; I used the ‘Round2 bevel/outline outer bevel’ option consistently across the selections as the flowers (and stems) are hairy, finger like shapes. I created custom gradients from the photo for the BRL, using the ‘sample gradient from path’ script. I also used the original photo as an overlay to provide a ‘shadow effect’ which is only just visible in the lighter red part of the background. Hope you like it - as I have stated elsewhere you were the one who lead me into BRL and I thank you for that - its great fun.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:23 pm **(#24)**

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Just watched your excellent video Wallace; thank you for that. You actually emphasised some points that as yet I have not attended to in my use of BRL, like the bleeding of colour, smoothing and adding selections for consistent shape contours; there is always something to learn!

In a number of my previous attempts I have used the line art as an over/underlay to improve the detail visibility. One of the other joys of this script is all the available options, for which it takes some time to understand what will be output - so plenty of surprises in that area.

So after watching your video I knocked up a BRL image from a photo of my kangaroo paw flowers; I used the ‘Round2 bevel/outline outer bevel’ option consistently across the selections as the flowers (and stems) are hairy, finger like shapes. I created custom gradients from the photo for the BRL, using the ‘sample gradient from path’ script. I also used the original photo as an overlay to provide a ‘shadow effect’ which is only just visible in the lighter red part of the background. Hope you like it - as I have stated elsewhere you were the one who lead me into BRL and I thank you for that - its great fun.

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Cool results OMG, and I'll take the blame for your creativity anyday. :hehe

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:27 am **(#25)**

this is a fantastic beautiful and wonderful tutorial
I want to make this tutorial but always comes the same error :clap

I did everything as said in the tutorial
then I go to bevel reflects logo

the wings of the bird I want blue
as you can see is the gradient fill blue
I click OK

AS YOU CAN SEE THE WINGS STAYING WHITE WITH A LITTLE BLUE

I have repeated several times the tutorial but always the same result

Greetings gimper 66

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Did you double click where it says select gradient and choose fg-bg?

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:59 am **(#27)**

molly ,you can see that fg to bg is on as well as the gradient

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:44 am **(#28)**

gimper66 wrote:

this is a fantastic beautiful and wonderful tutorial
I want to make this tutorial but always comes the same error :clap

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I did everything as said in the tutorial
then I go to bevel reflects logo

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the wings of the bird I want blue
as you can see is the gradient fill blue
I click OK

AS YOU CAN SEE THE WINGS STAYING WHITE WITH A LITTLE BLUE

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I have repeated several times the tutorial but always the same result

Greetings gimper 66

Hi Gimper66,
You may need to play around with the FG and BG colors. Try to make your FG & BG colors a bit darker.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

gimper66 wrote:

molly ,you can see that fg to bg is on as well as the gradient

Yes, but you have to do it in both places On the dialogue you have to double click where it says select gradient and scroll where it says fg-bg It will show the default gray but click that anyway.

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 10:20 am **(#30)**

molly wrote:

gimper66 wrote:

molly ,you can see that fg to bg is on as well as the gradient

Yes, but you have to do it in both places On the dialogue you have to double click where it says select gradient and scroll where it says fg-bg It will show the default gray but click that anyway.

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I think that Molly may be correct.
I used your image and the same gradient choosing FG to BG as the gradient to be used and this is what I came up with.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I am right once in a while... :teeth

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:01 am **(#32)**

Wallace,
that's what I do but always the same result

I use blue and yellow here but the same result

I have however the tutorial followed perfectly

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:06 am **(#33)**

I give you here the xcf of my last attempt, maybe you see there something wrong

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:09 am **(#34)**

gimper66 wrote:

Wallace,
that's what I do but always the same result

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I use blue and yellow here but the same result

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I have however the tutorial followed perfectly

That is odd...
It look as though you're FG color is being ignored and replaced with white. I don't know why this might be happening. :puzzled

Have removed/replaced the old version with the latest version of BRL?

Other than that... I think this is something that Tux will need to check out. I really don't have an answer to why this is occurring.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I just tried your xcf and it came out fine for me.

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:33 am **(#36)**

it was already the new version
I have these again removed and reloading ,strange but now it seems to work

I'm going to finish the picture and will post it as soon as possible
already thank you very much for your help and your time
gimper 66

rbdflyboy · **Joined:** Oct 02, 2014 **Posts:** 49

molly wrote:

gimper66 wrote:

molly ,you can see that fg to bg is on as well as the gradient

Yes, but you have to do it in both places On the dialogue you have to double click where it says select gradient and scroll where it says fg-bg It will show the default gray but click that anyway.

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Thank you Molly...been trying to figure this out...forever. Saw the explanation in the vid...didn't sink in until just now.

@Wallace... :bigthup

...Watched your blue snowflake vid as well...want to learn paths soon.

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 12:17 pm **(#38)**

gimper66 wrote:

it was already the new version
I have these again removed and reloading ,strange but now it seems to work

I'm going to finish the picture and will post it as soon as possible
already thank you very much for your help and your time
gimper 66

That's also odd...
At least it's working for you now.
I did contact Tux about this issue, maybe he has something that he can add to figure out why this happened.

I don't feel that it was a BRL issue, but maybe more like a Gimp or your OS instead.

I can't wait to see your final results when you're done.

Thanks for helping out Molly. :bigthup

gimper66 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:32 pm **(#39)**

as promised, I made as soon as possible my picture this is my result
it is a fantastic tutorial
I go more practice on that
I think also the problem was here at my computer
thanks again Wallace & molly :tyspin

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:58 pm **(#40)**

gimper66 wrote:

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as promised, I made as soon as possible my picture this is my result
it is a fantastic tutorial
I go more practice on that
I think also the problem was here at my computer
thanks again Wallace & molly :tyspin

Nice one Gimper66! :jumpclap

You really persevered in spite of counter influences. Great job! :bigthup

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