what's your wallpaper?

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:25 pm **(#61)**

b10h4z4rd - your work gets better and better! Those are fantastic.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:35 am **(#62)**

Did this one, this afternoon.

And using the same original pic I got this, this evening

I did't use any colourisation or reverse colouring either.
Biohazard I do like yours. I googled "traditional Burmese clothing" last night and your background was in the first few. :bigthup

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:09 pm **(#63)**

sallyanne: oh i love that! beautiful colours!

sallyanne · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:01 am **(#64)**

Thank you Anmal. I do like how the gimp and G'MIC help you with creativity.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Still playing with my felt texture and inspired by the ebook cover have come up with this....

nzdawghaus · **Joined:** Jan 06, 2011 **Posts:** 26

playing with layers...

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Thats really Nice, the only thing I would suggest is can you out the smiley face in front of the circle background.

nzdawghaus · **Joined:** Jan 06, 2011 **Posts:** 26

thanks, it started out I was just playing with "flicker dots", thus the squinting. Got a little hard to look at, so I ended up with that one.

Here's some tiles....

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Realised after looking through the wonderful artwork on this site one area I'm sadly lacking in is creating backgrounds for images, I always tend to go for white, blacks or white to black blended. So this image came about as I decided to have a play at just creating a background but it stands alone on its own.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:36 am **(#70)**

he4rty:

that's really great!! impressive on its own and would still work wel as a background. i haven't been into this thread for a while so i'd missed your felt background too, it's very good. how did you make the stitches?
nzdawghaus: i like that, the simple pattern gives a nice effect. i don't agree with he4rty, i don't think the smiley should be put in front of the pattern. it looks good the way it is!

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:21 pm **(#71)**

just have to post some of my latest. i've been at home all day with a cold and was too tired to work on anything until about two hours ago when i suddenly got an energy kick (all that honey an eucalyptus water, no doubt) and made a whole bucketload of wallpapers.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

All very nice AnMal

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

i agree with he4rty, they are all interesting in their own way

the first one has some details i especially like
the paisleys with the halftone (or is it the newspaper filter ?), the sand-like texture
how did you make the gradient striped "blob" ?
it looks a bit like a tropical fish

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:34 pm **(#74)**

he4rty: thank you!
esper: thanks! the "blob" took some time, but not too many steps involved: first, i made a layer mask by using a huge splatter brush in black on white, grunged the edges a bit with a grunge brush and grunged the inside of the splatter a little with the same grunge brush put on a very low opacity level. the gradient is one i custom made, i filled a layer with that layer set on spiral fill, then i used some smoothing effects, the water effect in g'mic-deformations and some gaussian blur (on 2 or 3) to get a more painted and smudged out look, then i applied the layer mask on that layer. the paisleys were made with a layer mask as well and i didn't use any filters, instead i made a separate grunge layer and filled it with one of my patterns with transparent background (i tweaked the result a little to make it a little less mechanical), then coloured the pattern white and merged it down with the paisley layer mask. i applied that mask to the blob layer and that got me some nice, not perfectly stencilled out paisleys.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

I was bored and no idea what to draw on gimp but just wanted to create something, so after just playing around this came to be.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

That is very pretty he4rty

hanciong · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2011 **Posts:** 112

Hello he4rty,

could you explain it more specific? I mean, where are the pixelise, map to pallate is located? and what exactly did you do with soble edge to get different height? isn't it enough to use bump map? I am asking a lot of questions because I want to make your wallpaper. it looks very beautiful. Thanx

he4rty wrote:

Thats cool Drac, didn't use the script similar to your one you posted execpt I used plasma clouds then pixelise, desaturate, posturise then map to palatte and finally I played with the sobel edge detect to get the different height bevels.

hanciong · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2011 **Posts:** 112

I sometimes make wallpapers. This is the one that I particularly like. I was following some tutorial.

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You can see other wallpapers here. All of them are following tutorials (except "ubuntu hold hands")

http://hanciong.deviantart.com/gallery/34226716

Btw for "ubuntu hold hands", do you guys have any suggestions to make it more realistic? Because I think it is not realistic enough T_T

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

You did a very nice job on this metal hanciong, foreground and background. KUDO's

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

[quote="hanciong"]Hello he4rty,

could you explain it more specific? I mean, where are the pixelise, map to pallate is located? and what exactly did you do with soble edge to get different height? isn't it enough to use bump map? I am asking a lot of questions because I want to make your wallpaper. it looks very beautiful. Thanx

I posted a rough text tutorial for it here, hope this helps if not send me a PM.

http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6194&start=20#p77139