Hi guys, I'm wanting to make my own overlays for gimp..I'm wanting assorted sizes of polka dots and also some stripes..does anyone know where there is a good tutorial for making these?

Thanks
Micki

I'm not sure what you had in mind. Here's red polka dots with the layer mode set to grain merge and over a pattern background. Is it anywhere close? Keep in mind that the background can be anything and your polka dots can be what you make them to be.

Not what I'm wanting...below is a pic of some circles...look at the bottom..see the different size circles...I wanting to make a template of different sizes like that so I don't have to make each time...

M

For the stripes, see Filters/Render/Patterns/Grid

Using a circle brush with a jitter applied and size set to random would do something similar to that, but would take some time.

If you have the time, you can make a new pattern pretty easily. Spend the time once and then use it whenever you need it. They're also easy to make and easy to delete. I guess to change the color of them, you'd have to place a color layer over it and change the layer mode....

Do you just want the little circles saved as a pattern? Are they always going to be in a large circle that size?

I'd make them as a brush, because then you can easily choose your own colors. Patterns would require being colorized afterwards.

Don't know how to make a brush...

Yeah they will be done on a 1 inch circle and maybe a 1 inch square

gonna try this..

I didn't think about making them a brush instead of a pattern, that would probably be better if you're not covering a large area and especially if you want all your circles to look the same. And it would be a lot easier to change the color. Good eye, mahvin!

GIMPtricks has a great video on how to make a pattern (in this case, scanlines) and making brushes is the same way with just one extra step.



So to make your brush, it's very similar:

1. Make a new image, set the size to be a larger than your circles.
2. On the New Image window, choose Advanced Options and change Fill With to Transparency.
3. With black as the color, place your polka-dots wherever you want, at whatever size you want.
4. When you've got it how you want it, go to Image > Mode > Grayscale . (extra step)
5. Go to Edit > Copy .
6. Go to Edit > Paste As > New Brush .
7. Call it whatever you want, both the name and file can be the same.

And that's that! You won't have to refresh, or at least I didn't, the new brush just appeared. You can change the color like you do with any other brush. You can scale it up or down, but it gets a little blurry.

When you're done with the polka-dot brush forever, you can delete it by right-clicking and choosing delete.

Agreed. We could all make your brush, but you know best how you want it to be, Micki.

Making a brush is no harder than saving a file.

After step 4. Flatten the image. (Right click layer - Flatten Image)

Okey dokey gonna give this a whirl...

Printing and adding the flatten image to it..