Eshop product pictures

Dejw · **Joined:** May 21, 2012 **Posts:** 2

GIMP Version: 2.8
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 7
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

Hi all, I hope you will help with my problem. I am trying to make product pictures of rhinestone applications to my e-shop. I need to get a preview in various colors (nowdays I use about 30 colors of stones).

I have a dotted pattern from software and I need to replace red dots with pictures of stones (white dots on picture).

I was trying to replace red dots one by one with brush - it looks like quite good but there is a problem that I will spend a lot of time with it (I need preview of 300 applications, every application has 250 - 800 stones) and I cant change color of stones. I was trying to change color with Colorize tool but I am not satisfied with result because rhinestones have specific colors.

Do you have any idea how to make it quick?? Thanks for your answers.

ZWard117 · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2012 **Posts:** 583

Create your designs in the rhinestone brush that you have. Create a new layer on top of that and fill it with what ever color you want as the entire rhinestone color. Go to layer modes and set to the mode color. (PS If that doesn't look good, than mess with the other layer modes. You might find one that looks good for one color but not another)

saulgoode · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 6:12 pm **(#3)**

If you download and install the following script, a command will be added ("Filters->Misc->Bauble paste per dejw") which will paste the contents of the clipboard into each of the red dots.

http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/rep ... 89dd53f90c

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12781

It doesn't show up in GIMP 2.8 Saul; tried re-opening GIMP after refresh failed but to no avail. Not sure why. Would be a cool way to use stipple output for this one too. Anyway, programmer I'm not so maybe someone else can verify this and see if it's just 2.8, 64-bit GIMP or some variation as to why it doesn't show up in misc.

edit:

It does show up in procedure list though. Weird.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 7:44 pm **(#5)**

lylejk wrote:

It doesn't show up in GIMP 2.8 Saul;

edit:

It does show up in procedure list though. Weird.

My mistake (nothing to do with GIMP versions). I renamed the script and missed one of the places where it needed changing. Thanks for the report.

I have updated the download link in my previous post, or you can just change the line at the end to:

Code: Select all

(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-sg-dejw-paste"

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12781

That worked Saul; wish my system was faster though. Like how the brush get's scaled to the size of the stipple.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:12 pm **(#7)**

lylejk wrote:

That worked Saul; wish my system was faster though.

I could make it run faster -- and may do so in the future -- by having it run in the background on a copy of the image. Since this was a quick-n-dirty, one-off script I figured watching it work was more important than speed (and easier to debug).

lylejk wrote:

Like how the brush get's scaled to the size of the stipple.

The approach is not perfect, and the size can be off by as much as two pixels in either direction (which can produce elliptical circles). For this reason, I would recommend working at double-size and then downscaling afterward to reduce the impact of this flaw.

If it is known that the rhinestones are perfect circles, the script could be modified to produce a better result.

Attachment:

lyle-bauble.jpg [ 130.41 KiB | Viewed 3192 times ]

2-ton · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:18 pm **(#8)**

Bwahahahaha, I always knew Lyle was a jewel of a guy!

Graechan · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:29 pm **(#9)**

The script runs for about 1 coffee on 2-6-12 32bit thats purfect

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lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12781

saulgoode wrote:

lylejk wrote:

That worked Saul; wish my system was faster though.

I could make it run faster -- and may do so in the future -- by having it run in the background on a copy of the image. Since this was a quick-n-dirty, one-off script I figured watching it work was more important than speed (and easier to debug).

lylejk wrote:

Like how the brush get's scaled to the size of the stipple.

The approach is not perfect, and the size can be off by as much as two pixels in either direction (which can produce elliptical circles). For this reason, I would recommend working at double-size and then downscaling afterward to reduce the impact of this flaw.

If it is known that the rhinestones are perfect circles, the script could be modified to produce a better result.

Attachment:

lyle-bauble.jpg

Now I'm really afraid Saul. lol

Look forward to the speedup.

alc59 · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:42 pm **(#11)**

nice script saul
runs pretty good here win7 64 4gig
here's a question i've had for a while..is it possible to stop a script while it's running

Graechan · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 10:30 pm **(#12)**

Have you thoght of selecting a layer to get the image from instead of copy paste.The script is loads of fun anyway.

ball bearings

butterflies

diamonds

saulgoode · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 5:31 am **(#13)**

Graechan wrote:

Have you thoght of selecting a layer to get the image from instead of copy paste.The script is loads of fun anyway.

I did not put a lot of thought into the script, though using a layer as the source did briefly fire a couple of synapses (as did using a brush). Basically, I chose the easy way out, which in my opinion is justifiable for a first attempt (no sense in getting fancy if I misconstrued the task).

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 7:51 am **(#14)**

There are several gemstone brushes available at Deviant Art that would work great for this.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&secti ... ne+brushes

Dejw · **Joined:** May 21, 2012 **Posts:** 2

Thank you very much for script. There is no problem with speed of making previews - it will save me a lot of time. It´s exactly what I was looking for - I don´t need perfect circles, the main goal is to show how does it looks like in various colors. Now I have a lot of work with e-shop updates

Rhinestones definitely not perfect circles - it depends on quality of stones but its possible to say that every stone is original... I am working with rhinestones for 3 years and I checked milions of stones

ZWard117 · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2012 **Posts:** 583

Glad the forum could be of some use.

paynekj · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:30 am **(#17)**

gramg wrote:

I was wanting to try this script offered on page 1, but it produces errors as having unbound variable.
Is there a way to fix it? I read up a bit on scripting and there is nothing the matter with this script except that it may be outdated, I guess...for the way scripts are written now. OH well, if anyone knows how, that would be nice...if not...there is still plenty to keep me going. Thanks.

To judge from the un-named unbound variable, you've got a similar problem to dinasset: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6626 so I'll ask the same question of you- What are you editing the script with?

Kevin

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

I love that Gram, I'll bet that would look really pretty on a dark bg.

I got this script but I can't get it to work.