i can't help it, that's two of the most inspiring things i know! before my gimp break i was a bit unhappy with what i made because i felt all i ever do is paisleys and pink stuff, over and over again. but now i don't care anymore, i just love it and that's that!
here's some high gloss thread paisleys that i put on a wallpaper, they're inspired by the flame painter thread that rod started.

right, this is inspired by the flame painter thread (oh you said that already)

i must say, i like everything about it...i mostly do, but its just true, because you do great stuff

its a nice looking composition, theres a bit of punk and a bit of 3D in it and it reminds me of these two tutorials as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHi7Z75 ... ure=relmfu
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text- ... xt-effect/

about the paisleys - they are your trademark and the day you will be fed up with it, you will find something new

They are really nice - only know them as your trademark. Good colours too.

Lovely paisleys AnMal. Just enjoy what you do and we will enjoy it too.

Paisleys and pink stuff is cool.

esper: that's very encouraging to hear.
yeah, i was actually thinking of the effect in those tuts when i read the flame painter thread. i thought that with slightly offset pats, stroked with a couple of slightly different ek22-style brushes you should be able to get almost exactly that effect.
and i think you're right about the paisleys .

sallyanne: thank you ! yeah, these colours really sing! btw, i like your new stripey sig!

erisian: i will enjoy what i do, i promise. i think i had temporarily forgotten how to play, doesn't happen often and always comes as a bit of a shock.

Rod explains the basics in his flame painter thread, but i also did these things: to begin with, i had paths of all the paisleys and the text. then i had a brush made after this tut: ek22's hair or fur brush and i used brush dynamics that allow me to paint with a gradient (there's a link to a tutorial for this in the thread O started) and i stroked the paths with that brush, with "emulate brush dynamics" checked. then i duplicated the layers and blurred, just like rod shows in the flame painter thread, but i experimented around with opacity and layer modes to get the result i wanted. then i made a new layer from visible, ran that layer through a g'mic filter called "specular bumps" that's found under testing - jayprich. i experimented with the settings there, the point of that step is to get some extra highlights that make the paisleys look glossier. the result (i always make sure it's put on a new layer) is some white spots on a black background, i colour to alpha:ed away the black, set layer mode to grain merge and pulled the opacity down a little.

wallace: you're sooo right there!