I was not sure where to post but.. Ive always wanted to make a nice white fur trim for clothes in Secondlife. For exampIe, a sexy Mrs Clause. have found only ones for photoshop! So does any one know where I may find a tutorial thats nice and easy on how to make the white fuzz fur trim for gimp?

Thanks,
Red

http://fastspeedy.deviantart.com/art/Tu ... oodonly=24

For starters...

This can be done with any color, but when using white for the "fur" look (santa suit trim and the ball on the hat), you need to blend in some gray gradient. I use this technique myself.

That is really a cool tutorial, mahvin. I love it. Nabbed it and stashed it.

I've been playing with making fur with my spider brush and it comes out nice too. I'll post some examples.

Nice tutorial Mahvin, thanks for the link. =)
I grabbed it up also.

I use this technique to create fire also.
Using the color-balance tool you can change the midtones, shadows, and highlites colors seperately to create a fire gradient type effect.Mostly what i like about this effect is you can do under lapping with your smudges to create a sort of fire burning from underneath effect.

You start out with a bg color and dif text color layers - Remember to create the text color the color you want to keep it!
rasterize the text - select the smudge tool and pull the top of the text up while wiggling a little to create a fire moving effect. After your done smudging -
Now alpha to select the text - now merge the text to the bg with the text still selected.
open the color balance tool and go nuts!
keeping the text selected select/invert - change your bg color to the color you desire, or keep the color.

results:

Thanks for the help you guys! I really appreciate it. Its been so frustrating tryig to make it. I tried the tut on mermaid daries but thats on photo shop. Its so frustrating! Bottom line THANKS A BUNCH!

Red

Were glad someone could help you out.
Welcome to Gimp Chat by the way Red Spirit. =)

lol ty lol i just tried the tut but im confused on the blur with the same brush an strenthen to 100%

To be honest, I don't use 100%. Let me reproduce my settings in GIMP and then I'll screenshot, so you can see the differences in settings. It gets easier once you realize what all the gizmos and doohickeys do (or don't do).

You can always try EyeCandy 3's Fur filter too.

Gaaah my blur doesnt have a brush option.. Im so lost lol

Use the smudge tool with those brush settings.

Finally, I got this done.

Here are two tutorials where I used the forerunner of the fuzz brush.
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?p=2105#p2105
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?p=8709#p8709

I've attached a Fuzz brush and a Leaf brush below in a zip file. Unfortunately I don't remember where I got the leaf brush to give credit for it. The Fuzz brush is one I made from a spider brush. Download the zip file and unzip into your gimp / brushes folder.

This is a quicky demo of making your own hat with paths and using brushes for the fuzz. If you have an image you want to put a hat on you could make the path over the image to get the right size.

This may seem like a lot to do, but it is easier than it sounds. Be sure to come back with any questions you may have because I could have left out something crucial.

Make a new image whatever size you want and fill that layer with white so you can see what you are doing.

Make a new, transparent layer.

Click the Paths tool and make a triangle using 5 anchors similar to this one. When you have all the anchors, hold down the Ctrl key to click the beginning anchor to get a line joining first and last anchors.



Play with the path to get more curved edges and more shape to your hat. For more information, go to the GIMP online manual here to learn more about paths. Feel free to ask questions about them, also.



After you have made your hat, Select > From Path and fill the selection with whatever color or gradient you want.

Select > None

Click the Paths tool again and make a path at the bottom of one side of the hat to the bottom on the other side. Move the center line upward to make a curve that is close to the curve on the bottom of the hat.

Click the Ellipse tool and draw a small circle at the pointed end of the cap. Select > To Path.



Click the Paintbrush tool and find the Fuzz brush. Resize the brush to 0.50 size.

Check Apply Jitter and increase it a small amount. Not a lot, just to keep the brush from being too symmetrically stroked.

Make your Foreground color a very pale gray and the Background color white.

In the Paintbrush dialog check Use Color from Gradient and find the FG to BG (RGB) - It's very near the top of the gradients list. I changed the length to 50 but it's not a crucial setting.



In the Layers window, click the Paths tab and select the curved bottom path. At the bottom click the Paint Along Path icon .



In that dialog select Stroke with a Paint Tool. Stroke.

Select the little circle and Paint along the Path and Stroke with the Paintbrush.

I used a black background so you could see the white fur better.



Play with any and all of the settings in anything. They are not carved in stone.

If you're steady of hand and good with the mouse, you don't need a path to paint on the fur. Just draw it on.

This is just another example of what you can do. The party hat was made with a simple triangle with 3 nodes and the bottom stroke was curved upwardly. I used the leaf brush.

That spider brush has come in so handy O. =)

Two questions about fastspeedy's tutorial...

1) my blur tool is obviously less efficient than his. I don't get something as blurred with one single pass.

2) my smudge tool work as the doc says it should, inside the monochrome patch of paint it doesn't do anything. It will work only towards the edge. I don't get anything starting to look hairy inside the initial path.

Am I missing something?

so cute pogo.......

Oh, pogo, you have as much fun with your avatar as I do with an O.

NIce brushes! Oops, I accidentally blurred part of the pic...oh well, other than the blurry middle, it was fun to do! I must remember that I have to double click everything with gimp on mac!

I didn't like my last effort, so I did another one and did not mess it up this time.
Oops, I uploaded but accidentally did it twice and lost the site url, how can I find it here on this site?

Do you know the name of the file?