Wallace and Sallyanne - thank you; I'm playing with portraits still but they are taking longer these days so in the meantime here is another quick brush mandala.

Another brush, another mandala.

Ok, these are all so beautiful that I want to learn to make them too. I can create a brush but what are you all using to make the mandala? I feel so silly for asking.

I tried to figure out how you all make your mandala images from the brush. This is what I came up with but they don't come close to what the other member's are creating. I need to know how I make the mandala once I place my brush on a transparent layer.

Angela - glad you like these pics!

I use three different methods to create these mandalas with the brushes I make:

1.By hand using the brush then successively duplicating the layer(s) and rotating them
2. A script by TIn Tran called Mura Meister Copies - which also duplicates and rotates a layer
3 I also use the GIMP native option Symmetry Painting>Mandala

In some cases I 'create new from visible' then 'flip' it horizontally and in most cases I then add some extra touches through filters or whatever.

Hope this helps you; if you need any further info please just ask

Thank you so much! Your info is very helpful. BTW, I don't think you're grumpy at all

Angela - I'm grumpy by name but not by nature.

Beautiful and creative as always!

Beautiful mandellas recently

[[ edit -- i want back a bit to 216 and there is help there for making brushes -- thank you OMG ]]


Making brushes is a bit difficult for me
i understand the copy that makes it a brush
but making the elegant shapes that OldManGrumpy makes
looks super complicated.
I thought there was a function / script / tool to make steps between
two selections or paths or something.

The search will continue and i will keep trying
-- Thats where the real magic and fun happens --

leftyleo - just a couple of comments; I probably use the 'brush' more like a stamp, then add additional features with scripts/plugins. Also yes there are a couple of filters/scripts that create paths between paths. They can be used to make a brush or make a mandala itself. Just let the creative thoughts flow.

AH - like a stamp - now that makes sense
I should not think as much of the final direction
as much as just make a 'stamp' and see where it takes me

and i love the potential craziness of the brush in #243
now that is intriguing.
thank you

I am supposed to be doing portraits, but these mandalas are quick and addictive.

@ LeftyLeo - this brush was made using 'lines between paths' script.

Beautiful, just beautiful! You have so much creativity and skills!

Thanks Pat; appreciate your kind comments.

Here is one where I used a brush that I had previously used in this thread. This time though, I applied some of my own brush dynamics to achieve the result, then added some GMIC filtering.

Given the recent references to 'Gimp fractals' elsewhere in the forum, I had a play, also using one of my own gradients.

Another Gimp fractal based brush/mandala.