Do you suppose this patch will ever fall off?

You really sowed that patch on tight Rod. lol

Cool, would look a little more realistic if you bump mapped the flannel section to the R layer, that way it looks like the R has some weight on the shirt, but I love that flannel color though.

This a little better?
I gave it a gradient overlay and some displacement with a shadow to give it a little more depth.
I also did a alpha to selection on the stitching and deleted it from the flannel shirt area to give it a look as if the thread is actually going into a hole.

Ya, see how the shirt lines look like they are angling down (as if the patch has weight, and gravity applies), looks really good either way! Nice Job Rod!

Perfect patch !

Beautimus!

Just had a thought (I know it's in a strange place so I'll treat it gently) Make the stitch into a cross and marry it with something like the Viaroni Stipple to produce a cross-stitch image that looks like it was sewn into the fabric with a little bump/shadow effect like you did here. Between you and Lyle, I know you guys will come up with something that might actually become a really cool "cross-stitch" filter.

Here's the cross-stitch brush

Whenever I stroke a text path it always gives me like an outline stroke or doubles up, even if I mke it 1 pixel. What' up with that?

Cause they are closed stroke paths (i.e. outlines) not single stroke paths. There was a thread on those types of fonts here, I believe they were called "engraving fonts"

-Rob A>

Nice work, Rod. Looks great!

That kind of stitching might also be useful to some of the members here who make medals. I guess the medal would have to be large enough to see the stitching, but it could make some of the embroidery and bordering more realistic.

Interesting. Not being a real path guru, I wouldn't know closed path from an open one if it bit me. In fact I don't even know what that means. I gather that is what Ofnut's scripts are for is to somehow alter these paths for various effects. I would like to explore this a bit more. I downloaded a couple of his scripts plus the one Rod mentioned recently but I don't know where they show up and can't find 'em.