December 25, 2008
By: Dexter
Category: GIMP, Tutorial
Another GIMP stuff that I did recently, is something that looks like a Wooden board in coffee color. you can use this for a name plate or something similar for your site.
Here are the steps
- In GIMP start with a new file of canvas size: 420×300 (feel free to do it with other sizes)
- Select the blend fill tool; Select Coffee gradient.
- With ‘ctrl’ pressed, use the gradient tool to select from right edge to left edge of canvas, you should get something similar to image 1.
- Repeat the above process for right to left, top to bottom and bottom to top. you should have the board ready something similar to image 2
- Apply Rounded Corner filter to the image: Filter — Decor — Rounded Corner. (un-select the add shadow from the dialogue box). Try a higher radius edge — i have used a radius edge of 25. you should now get a something similar to image 3
- Your basic board is ready. Now to make screw heads start with a new image of say 100×100. (though we will be only using a very small area of that
 )
- From the tools select the Ellipse Select Tool, holding shift down select a area of 20×20
- Select the blend fill tool; Select Cold Steel gradient.
- Now roughly around 2 or 3 pixels from the select circle, pull a small gradient select. This will give you your screw head. something similar to image 4
- select this screw head and copy it on four corners of the coffee-board.
- every time you place the screw on a corner, use the rotate tool (shift-R) to rotate every screw in a bit of different direction, this make it look more real
- finally using the dodge/burn tool smudge the area around the screw to give it a look of pressure around the screw. (you will have to select the background layer to do that)
- So your board is ready… put it on your website and write you name there
- I have put it as a table cell background and put text in the center of the cell.
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 Image 1: Applied coffee gradient to one side of the image  Image 2: After applying coffee gradient to all the sides  Image 3: Applied rounded corners filter to the image  Image 4: Screw Head - using the cold steel gradient  Image 6: Final Board, screwed to the website. |
