Color flexible background / wallpaper [PDF]

Issabella · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:58 am **(#21)**

Thank you Sally.

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

You are welcome but I am Molly :teeth

Issabella · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:02 pm **(#23)**

Excuse me. :tyspin

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

No prob, we all do that.

dietmar · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:48 pm **(#25)**

great result Issabella!

:gimp

Issabella · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:09 pm **(#26)**

Thank you Dietmar, I like your tutorial a lot. I tried it adding a pattern, too.

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

I like that a lot Issabella, I always liked that cloth pattern.

dietmar · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2015 6:07 pm **(#28)**

I am fascinated how my simple tut inspired the freaks here to improve it

dietmar

Issabella · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:39 am **(#29)**

molly wrote:

I like that a lot Issabella, I always liked that cloth pattern.

Thank you Molly,

dietmar wrote:

I am fascinated how my simple tut inspired the freaks here to improve it

dietmar

Dietmar, your tut made me practice more with path tool and I like that a lot. :tyspin

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

Here is another one I tried.

Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:39 am **(#31)**

Molly, I like yours a lot! nice colours. I'm sure Wallace will like it too.

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

I found a very nice one in Bing Images that I like and showed it to Wallace and he reproduced it and did a steller job. It is almost identical.
I am trying to figure out how he did it but I am not having very good luck so far.
bing image on left... Wallace on right I am jealous.

Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:15 am **(#33)**

It is beautiful what Wallace did. Perhaps he could give us some pointers or help to get it.

I am jealous too.

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

I know, I am getting nagged at. I can do the part that dietmar did in his tute but I can't get the whitle edges the way I showed above. I was told to keep trying. :oops:

grrrrrrr

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:01 pm **(#35)**

I have attached a PDF document of this tutorial in the first post in the thread.

Very nice tutorial, dietmar

dietmar · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:02 pm **(#36)**

Oregonian wrote:

I have attached a PDF document of this tutorial in the first post in the thread.

Very nice tutorial, dietmar

Nice, thank you!

I usually save tutorials here by printing to PDF, but that has the disadvantage of having a lot of not-wanted webpage objects with it.

Dietmar

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

sweet

dietmar · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:26 am **(#38)**

Hi,

what I noticed when I was again playing with this tutorial for my own wallpaper, were the "steps" seen in the gradient layers (horizontal lines, see pic below, or increase the zoom view in the tutorial pics to view it).

This looks very nasty on my background.

I tried
a) adaptive supersamping in the gradient
b) blur filters
c) GMIC anisotropic smoothing

but nothing helped. Any ideas how I can get rid of them?

Dietmar

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:43 am **(#39)**

Check out Wallace's two helpful videos about this tutorial.
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?p=162426#p162426

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:28 pm **(#40)**

There must be something super natural (

) about this excellent tut; 3 times yesterday I started it and 3 times yesterday I was into my third 'nose' when our power supply was cut off.

I will have another attempt today!