Marcello, thank you very much for the patterns shared with all of us.
The outcomes of all of you are outstanding! they make me think I have to learn and practise much more!

my face is red Issabella! Thanks for your kind words!

Nothing spectacular, just been while since I messed with it.

That's some epic text Warrior.
BTW... A friend of mine just joined, can you give him a welcome? His name is Porter.

I do like that font. Not sure where I got it, but it's called effortless tattoo.

Sweet font!

Found the font: http://www.dafont.com/effortless-tattoo.font

Looks great, Warrior. The styling feels a little Egyptian.

Thanks GT. I had said that before somewhere as well, that it reminded me of something Egyptian.

I like it, The Warrior.

Thanks Carlos, appreciate it.

Trying a few different types of emaps.

I'm starting with a photo or an image and using Filter/Distorts/Polar Coordinates to create a circular map. Sometimes, I have to smooth the result (G'MIC 'Thin Brush' works good). I've also tested mapping that result to a sphere, which works pretty well too. I'm creating a script, using some of these techniques, that I'll release if it works out.

This one was created from a photo of flowers.





This one was created from my Fedora Wallpaper.





Another variation of the same wallpaper.

Wow, talk about shiny, I like... A lot

experimenting

Nice result, Marcello. That looks really good!

Here's another flower photo map & result.

Environment Map


Result

cool pansies

Excellent Tux. I really like the way the text looks with this map.


I wonder what G'MICs Dream Smoothing would do for the sphere maps?
Can't wait to use the script you are writing for this technique.

Tux, please, what's the path for "Thin-brush"?

Carlos, it is under Repair Smoothing > Thin brush

from picture to BRL
my tulip photo, map, settings & result







How I can upload an image that can be enlarged?