Peter, I love your styled ring with the brushed gold look and the Elvin font on it.
And how do you make that beautiful striped patterns inside your rings, for instance in your avatar.

Yes Peter, I already had a look at your gallery That's where I saw all these beautiful patterns.
The program "Apophisis" I didn't know. Thanks for the info.

Such a pity the "scroll bar" plugin doesn't work on your Gimp version.
I too had to install it in my Gimp 2.8
I recently downloaded the portable version of Gimp 2.10, didn't try the BRL on it, so I don't know if I can reach the OK button there. I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

Cool olympic rings omg, are they 3 nine fine?
What I don't like, is the aliasing that BRL creates when ever using contour depth, even if it's just 1.
I'm trying to create a simple flat bevel with a flat top, something like gold bar would look from above.
It's real easy to make with other bevel plugins, but would be real bling with BRL because of the spherical maps.

@Peter, text along path does work.
Switch to paths tab, right-click the path you want to use, tools/text along path.
New version has 2 entries, text along path and text [multi] along path.

With python plugins I always right-click them and check the properties.
Sometimes they need to be unlocked.

Peter - well it looks like your issue with the Ofnuts paths tool that I recommended has been solved while I was asleep.

Also, Like Wallace, I have not yet gone to the GIMP 2.10 version given all the problems with it that I have seen noted in this forum and elsewhere.

Thanks for the info, Peter. At the moment I won't investigate the "Apophysis" program.
Still learning to go true the Gimp 2.10 version and most working on Gimp 2.8
Then I also have Blender and Inkscape to practice. It's enough study material I think

I just was very interested in your beautiful patterns and shiny buttons.

After using BRL I often run it through G'MIC - repair - Smooth(anisotropic)

That's a good tip, Richard. I also struggle with the jacked edges on the BRL outcome.

That's strange... Don't know if that's a problem for you. I didn't had the intention to work with the program right now.


Was so fascinated by your gold ring and had to try out my own version. The fractals I downloaded from the internet.
Here it is

Ella - very nice fractal/glass ring; I will have to search out some I did a few years back using JWildfire fractals.

Also for edge smoothing with BRL outcomes, if you set the contour depth >1 and edge smoothing amount parameter to its maximum setting (4), in the outcome it will overlap the original selection boundaries with a thickish edge all round; then after completion you can do a 'selection invert' and 'delete' to to get rid of the them and deliver an edge that is not jagged. That was how I first did it with those see through glass images a couple of years back.

Thank you for the mini tut, oldmangrumpy. I'll try it out later.
You know I always admired your glass art.

I blurred my ring after the BRL but then it wasn't a clear ring anymore.
I tried several techniques to sharpen it a bit, unsharp mask, lighting effects, different layer modes...
Did so many things I don't remember it all
Luckily I saved the xcf-file so I can use it again





Thank you for your comment, Peter.
My first outcome was like looking through a window.
Now I used a lens distortion to make it more like some sort of button.

@Peter: Thank you and sorry if I make mistakes in English, it's not my native language.
Just corrected a linguistic error on my previous post...

(Very often I have problems to log in, log out or to post on GC. is there someone else with the same problem?)