have to start with the most important here:
no more talking down of your own skills, efforts or results, please!!!(and that includes me, so don't let me get away with it either.) keep happy and
brag about your gimp work!
pat625: thanks for comments on my glass paisley
! it's very, very simple and completely doable for anyone with g'mic: i just made a paisley, stroked it with an ordinary brush and a gem brush, then ran it through the drop water filter in g'mic. the filter is under "deformations" and you need two layers, the top one with transparency, then you set "shapes" to 'opaque regions on top layer'. ii even ran it at default settings, no tweaks of settings at all in that particular image! i did some other stuff, but that's all unimportant details that have to do with getting exactly the colours i wanted and bringing out some details more, but the actual effect boils down to a gem brush (or other patterned brush) and a g'mic filter.
sallyanne: that is great stuff! i love the general look of that paisley and the way you combined it into patterns and objects
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oldmangrumpy: mind blowing stuff you're coming up with, brother
! that last one is amazing even if it didn't turn to glass (which i suppose was the original plan?). and it's got the most perfect colour too! great job on the non-filter paisley too, i have to try that technique now
. but hey, i never said i didn't use filters in mine! i have a couple of favourite ways of making glassy objects, but most of them include filters and they give different types of results. by now you have probably read my reply to pat625, so you know the secret of this one was the drop water effect in g'mic. hmm... i just s´thought of something that will feed your addiction again, but that involves a lot of thread archaeology ... watch this space
issabella: that is so beautiful! looks just like amber
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dinasset: i can't install more scripts on this laptop, but how does your script make the gradient flare? is there a way to do it manually?