Not sure where to put this. I was crusing one day and saw a PS tut that took a stitch and shaped it to some text. When I use even the thinest of text characters it always strokes the outline of the text rather than just one stroke for each letter. I alpha select the text, then save the selection to a path, then stroke teh path using the brush.

Still trying to immulat the tut I saw, and after getting the rotating brush thing cleared up, I made a couple of rotating brushes out of the single stitch pattern. Still can't get it to work right. I think I saw something in the threads about making the brush rotate around the path but can't find it. Anyone have a clue how to get this to work better. Here are the brushes I made and a couple of sample pics.

The idea was to blur/bump the results and colorize, so the stitches look raised above whatever fabric background you put it on. The middle pic (incremental setting) had some interesting patterned results, but I was trying more for an effect similar to the first pic but it still has gaps and doesn't look good on the curves. Anybody have a suggestion?

I was actually checking out this tutorial yesterday and was thinking about creating a brush for stitches.
http://textuts.com/baseball-inspired-text-effect/

Like they say..."great minds think alike".

Any ideas yet on how to make this work better for GIMP?

I am still working on the brush.
It doesn't want to follow the path correctly.



Perhaps a script to follow a path while rotating the brush?

Ofnuts Sine path script works quite well also.

And Ofnuts Sine script results stroked and the stroke settings.
Make sure your Foreground color is the color you want to stroke the path though.

All I can suggest is just trying a brush with less angles between each angular step:


Another option would be to create a rotating gih with a random jitter selection as well as the rotations:

http://www.box.com/s/04d36a13cbf54d09d69f (sorry, too big to upload here).

Here is a sample with the linked-to brush:


-Rob A>

Rob A - That does work a little better althought there are still areas that are not conistent and even which is what I am after.

Rod - Where can I grab that scm or is it Python?

I think i got it.
I believe i can save the brush i made as a GIH with angular settings and 1 layer
Then it should follow the mouse or path in this case....i think.

Sort of worked...



The script is Python. One of OfNuts creations.

Can I buy a clue to where I can find this puppy?

Here you go
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-p ... s/scripts/
I believe its path-waves but you may want to download all of them to be sure.

They are all nice anyways.
You will find this one under "right click the path>decorations>sine" (i think)

Here is the brush i created.


Just place it in your brushes folder.
It's animated only in the sense that it follows the path or brush direction.

Thanks Rod

You are welcome Molly.
This isn't a colored brush by the way.You will only get black as the outcome.
Then you will have to do a alpha to selection on the stitch layer and change the color that way.
If you want different colors just open the brush as an image (via the brush dialog), and change the color.Then re save it as a different named brush.Such as Stitches_Red, stitches_White...ect...ect.