Military Ribbon

[H04X]

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Hey, I'd like to make a few military ribbons. During my drunk time I managed to make one/two, though I'm failing at recreating it. I've attached a few examples. I've also read another thread about a similar topic but that's way too tech for me to understand.

[mahvin]

Any particular military ribbons in mind?

[H04X]

Nothing in particular, just struggling to find the whole process, how to get the filters right and whatnot. I don’t even remember how I did the ones I’ve attached lol. Thanks for quick response, by the way!!

[Pocholo]

There is a quick tutorial by our latest Oregonian here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2295&start=10

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[H04X]

Thank you! Although I did try that and it’s really confusing as is. Like I’d be drawing with black and the whole thing appears as red, etc. Do you know what I did wrong?

[H04X]

Ah alright, now that I have taken a short nap, I finally found out how to do it. Burner layer above the layer of the ribbon template. Thank you everyone!

[H04X]

Okay, a new problem arose. When I try to use burn with black colour, it.. looks very off. I've attached what I get and what I'd like to get. Any ideas?

[Pocholo]

OK H04X, this is what you have to do.
1. Once you create the colors of the ribbon, place the "Cotton faille" at the top
2. Change the Layer's Mode to> Linear Burn and you get the result you want
3. Go to: Colors/Brightness and Contrast and play around with it until you satisfy with the color


I'm an Army Infantry veteran myself and these are two of my medals I created with the little tut I wrote above






Ps I used Layerfx.py for the Faille texture.

[mahvin]

I grabbed Lyle's image at viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2295#p29883 and using top layers with various layer modes, was able to produce this:



Like Rich, I prefer simplicity and GIMP exploration. You can always scale the image to a smaller size, if necessary.



I've attached my xcf file for browsing.

militaryribbon.xcf

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[H04X]

I love all of you. Thank you all for the help, I finally managed to get it all together. Here's something I threw together as a simple first attempt, but I just need to experiment some more. Thanks again! <3

[rupeshoo7]

The service ribbon for a specific medal is usually identical to the suspension ribbon on the medal. ... However, a ribbon bar representing the Order of Victory was worn on a military field uniform.