Hi, everyone!






Please, respect author's rights.

Edit. Uploaded the wrong image, now it's fixed. Also attaching xcf file of the handle, since it was done separately.
The original xcf was scaled down to 70%.

Excellent job, I like the shadow effect in the magnifying glass.

Really nice,the lighting and shadows as well as the highlight on the glass all looks good.

Excellent, I could not say if it is a design or photo.



I think you should choose a license for your image, in this way people know what they should respect

k1tesseraena: that's so perfect! well done!

Thank you, everyone!

I've changed the image because initially uploaded the wrong one. Was in a hurry and just pasted 'new from visible' inside xcf
and that was with one extra layer, so the whole visible became 'bleached' and half of the shadows gone. Fixed it. Looks better now and
the way it was supposed to look.
The xcf, though, was/is right when you open it in GIMP.

Also added xcf of the handle. Actually the handle was the easiest part. Just making rectangular selections with rounded corners and adding
one of the he4rty's Crown Moulding gradients to metallic parts. I have a few real good paper textures in my texture library, they're all colored,
so I simply desaturated one of them and adjusted the curves.
The hardest part was definitely the shadow/lights masking of the lens surface and finding the right balance. All the other simple glossy tricks
learnt from Inkscape and are easy enough to replicate in GIMP. Scaled the image down to be more viewable in GC.
Took me about 1 hour to ponder the project and find the reference image, two more for drawing and tweaking it.
Have another project in mind - want to draw a book.

what ???

you made that in Gimp ?
speechless :-O

how are you able to construct such a complicated gloss from scratch ??

EDIT: what is the name of the font, please ?

@Esper
the name of the font is Typical Writer Thin.
I typed Light and shadows, duplicated text layer and cut it in two halves. Magnified text was made with Map>Map Object>Sphere.
At the end decided to add The Magic. Just the way i feel toward light and shadows in visual arts.
Gloss and shadows is a combination of few images I found with Bing Search. Like I said, I was looking at photographs
and other Magnifying Glass tutorials but neither one was good enough. One PS tutorial was particularly good, but
you can't follow it because PS is using layer styles and much better than GIMP gradient editors.
So I took the gloss design from it, although it's not identical intentionally. Seeing the pictures is enough for me to reproduce the effect.

It is just perfect!

Thank you, 2-ton!

Here's the Typical Writer Thin font

Wow - that came out perfectly. Great effect!

I think I preferred the lighter version you posted, but I'm sure its all down to taste.

Here is a font I found to use when I had a go at creating a magnifying glass,



Font can be found here at dafont

Thank you, he4rty! I don't like the lighter version by one reason only - there is too much paper texture shown on the gloss,
which is not possible in real life. I sent files to my sister's computer and she said the same thing as you (she is an artist).
On my monitors it doesn't look that much darker, but I guess it all depends on monitor calibration, the topic that was discussed here recently.

you guys have got to stop putting up cool font links/downloads. My font folder is getting stuffed!!!!

OK, after watching ccbar's recent wonderful animation I've made some adjustments -
changed 'magnified' text (basically by applying lens distortion plug-in and offsetting it according to real life optics behavior), also, following the advise from
many experts (including my sister), reduced amount of on-lens shadow. Got rid of paper texture just to get a better view of the applied changes.

so realistic!

Picture perfect!

Stunning work!

I think K1TesseraEna is kidding us. That is a real photograph!

Excellent design!