you guys are the best teachers a person could ever have in tutorial-writing
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. i'll make some edits now and i
will make this tutorial understandable in the end!
jas45: that's a great looking picture! very creative
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. and guess what? you're actually right about the grain merge thing. i checked and it just got lost after my very first version (that i didn't even post on gc, because it was so full of typos), i must have deleted it by mistake while i edited up to the first version i posted
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gramg: aha, i see - i just got so confused when you talked about erasing on a duplicate background
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. i really like glitters too, so i understand your decision. but glitters work by contrast, so the darker the surroundings, the brighter those little dots will sparkle. for an experiment, you can try making a new transparent layer over the glitters, paint random dots on it with a black brush, gaussian blur the layer by 25 and then experiment with the opacity on it or by simply turning the layer off and on. don't the glitters look more like real glitters when you have the layer turned on and at a rather high opacity level? you're of course free to disagree!
molly: you're perfectly right of course. in my revision number 2 i will write in instructions on the layer order and also add a screenshot of the layer stack. i'll try to think of newbie friendliness too.
edit: i've now posted my revision number 2. hoping for some poor innocent gimper to show up and try it out so i know if it's worth keeping!
and because you've of course all been dying to know, here's what the effect looks like on a pink paisley:
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2116_pink%20paisley.png)