I'd love to see this or at least part of it as a G'MIC effect, but things like that are most definitely over my head

@ Molly: Nice job on your anchor!

I've attached a pdf document of the tutorial that is text only. I've added in bold, italicized text what I felt might make the tutorial clearer and easier to follow. There are very few places I did that so, basically, the original tutorial was very well written. It's very difficult to put yourself in someone else's head when writing a tutorial, and, of course, the tutorial writer already knows what is going on so that it's easy to miss places that might confuse someone. I think the tutorial was well written but has a few "rough" places.

Thanks "O".... Yes the tutorial was very well written and I did see where the problems lay and thank you for making that pdf.....It made a great difference.

Thank you O for the pdf! i like that you look the time to look over my tutorial, i will try to be alot more specific and detailed in future tutorials. I'm working alot with converting photoshop tutorials to gimp.

just tried another one I like better.

Oooh that looks very nice!

Writing text tutorials is HARD. You work and work on them and swear they're OK. Posting them is the acid test though. Everyone learns including the tutorial writer.

I think you did a really fine job even with just a few little glitches. There are very few tutorials written without some glitches. Users find them. Tuts without feedback are definitely not very satisfying.

What O said. I agree. We're only human and bound to make some mistakes. When I started writing tutorials a few years back, I learned that I couldn't write them like "I" was using them, so I started using lots of screenshots to help new users "see" their way through them. Videos work great up to a point, because I don't think the human brain is used to constantly rewinding and replaying,so most new users prefer to see it with text and pictures, one step at a time. Seeing screenshots of your layer dialog (during complex stages) helps a great deal, too, because it enables the user to make that connection that they are within the same number of steps as you are in the tutorial.

I didn't say his efforts were horrible.

I want to encourage him to make more such tutorials because he has an interesting take on using GIMP - one that is very instructive. However i want him to improve his efforts and having done this myself, BOY do I know the work that goes into explaining to people you aren't even talking to LIVE how to do something complex.

I'm critical of my own work and the results are that I get better

btw, thanks for the pdf - I've got an idea I want to work on and I'm going to test out your reworking of this tutorial.

and, yes, I'll let you know how it comes out.

The anchor looks really cool, Molly! The tutorial was very good, and the screen shots were gold, I never could have figured it out without them, so thanks! It took a few false starts, but I finally got one completed! I will be looking forward to more photoshop tutorials converted to gimp!

Unless I misunderstood at Step 12 right after one changes the layer name I think one needs to do an Alpha to Selection

when I have more time.....I'll try this again. It's FUN!

Yes you might have missed the bevelling and the highlights and shadows on the cage... did i spell bevelling right? im not that great at spelling

Nice tut bro!

one more...not following the tut, just using what I learned and trying to simplify but get the same look.

I could have made the color layer more opaque for a rusty look. I got the texture by bump mapping the color layer to the cage layer underneath it. I didn't do all the extra render layers, just desaturated the burlwood and played with the contrast and lightness on the desaturated burlwood layer.

2-ton, that looks good, just like a piece of corroded metal that has been cleaned to reveal the pitted metal surface.

2-ton, both of yours look great.

Cecelia, I LOVE that fish.

me too. It's from the Flying Spaghetti Monster group. It's a "Pirate Fish". I figured it would be perfect as another GIMP splash image.

this one was tricky - used a brush made from tattoo designs and unlike a font had areas that were outside/inside causing me to pay attention to the Selections...but it works anyway.

As I said in the other thread, Cecelia, that would make beautiful jewelry so I gave it a try. It's using the script in the other thread.
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That is beautiful. love it.