Well I saw this ps tutorial awhile back, and just recently saw the same tutorial, but this time it was done in Pixelmator, so I decided I'd give it a try.

Here's my final result.

You can download the project file below if you wanna see how I created it.

Excellent! I love them, Mike. Why not the standard green felt background? A darker background would make those really pop out, imho.

Like the pool balls Mike; agree about the felt color with Mahvin though; guess I'm a little biased for the green.

Thanks!
I don't dig that green color so I made a light grudge like background instead.

pixelmator isnt that mac software??? if so can you tell me if you are using GMIC on GIMP for mac and if you can add your own filters and also...how???

Yeah Pixelmator is for a mac, and idk how to help you with anything gimp related on a mac sorry. I'm having a hard time getting gimp to run at all on my hackintosh.

Once I get the Fundamentals of CSS tutorial done, I'll definitely make a tutorial on how to make this.

BTW I didn't use GMIC at all.

Also love the new avatar mahvin.

Weight loss program, lol. Thanks, Mike!

That'd be a pretty nice tutorial, will we see one of how you made the avatar???

Ah, that's a tutorial my friend Pixelcreativity from youtube. Don't know why he stopped making tuts. He was so good at them.
Great result Mike.

Thanks! I never talked to PixelCreativity, I subscribed to the user though, cause he's got some good content.

Pixlemator isn't free so I"ll stick with Gimp. I am still hoping to find out how to add my own filters to G'mic and also not sure how to upgrade to the latest G'mic so I can get the new filters that are added there.

2-ton:

Forest just responded to that on G'MIC Flickr this morning, why not try and follow his suggestions and see if they work for you?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/discu ... 714980030/

Well, I read the thread and it isn't quite clear enough...I guess they assume that the reader knows a bit more than I know about macs and files. This, for instance, is greek to me!
"open -a TextEdit .gmic

you can edit/create the file .gmic

By the way for the command version of gmic I use an alias

alias gmic
alias gmic='$(which gmic) -v - -m ~karo/.gmic -v +'

to have the same external gmic functions as Gimp "

What they mean by the TextEdit, I think they mean, like a word Document, or some sort of Simple Text Editor, it would be like Notepad for Microsoft

I would encourage you to express those thoughts with them, 2-ton. Because if anything, the chances of resolving the problem increase. To do nothing = nothing happens. I am confident, that somewhere in the middle is a solution. I guess its just a matter of asking the right questions.

I know what the app textedit is, what I don't get is what is the '-a' part, would I edit OR create .gmic, and I don't get the whole alias thing. I am not sure what an alias is other than a copy of something, and have no idea how to use the codes they put up in that part.
If I can post in the flickr thread, I will do just that!
*drat, you have to join and I really don't want to join yet another site.
and thanks Mahvin for asking them to make a detailed tutorial with ALL the little steps and explanations...that would be awesome..

But it's G'MIC, the most awesome GIMP tool ever!

Sorry, Mike! Didn't mean to hijack your pool balls thread.

I love using the gmic that I do have...it's amazing!

Mike,

I looked at the original photoshop tutorial that you linked to and while the results from that tutorial were good, I really like the result that you achieved. Nicely done.

Those turned out excellent Mike!