Nothing To Lose

Another GIMP thingy that you can do easily, i.e. to achieve a coarse textured wall surface in different colors. I did start with red. You may want to try out others.

Start with a new file or should is say canvas of the required size Bucket Fill with Red color (or any other color that you like) (see IMAGE 1) Select the whole image, then apply RGB Noise filter. Filters — Noise — RGB Noise Play around with different values of Red Green and Blue (Make sure that the basic color which you select remains prominent and you have some black or dark areas.) (see IMAGE 2) Next apply Emboss effect (select the bump map option from the emboss dialogue box). Filters — Distorts — Emboss Keep the Depth slider at the middle, move around depth and azimuth to get different flow of the coarse effect. (see IMAGE 1) I felt that the brightness was less so I increased the contrast and brightness a bit more in the end. And that makes your coarse surface ready!

IMAGE 1: Basic Red Background IMAGE 2: After Applying RGB noise filter IMAGE 3: Final Coarse Wall Surface

Coarse Wall Yellow

Coarse Green Wall

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.

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.

FOSS CD/DVD Label

Few days back did a CD/DVD label for PLUG which could be use for any FOSS distro/content. Of course used GIMP for it.

Downloaded this CD-Label script Fu, which give you a basic blank CD label for doing your art work on it.

Added few icons of apps, desktops, distros etc to the label. Kept the print size to 4.5 inches as the outer diameter and inner diameter to 1.5 inches.

Sudhanwa gave an interesting idea to use up the inner circle. So we put the PLUG logo inside that label. Now with every CD/DVD label, we get one PLUG sticker free, or should I say we salvaged the inner sticker!

Download the GIMP xcf file here if you want to use the basic design.

Till then happy GIMP(ing) .

Had been using GIMP for some time now, so just thought to put some small tutorial stuff here.

It’s also going to help me later to do the same again. (took me loads of time to identify the gradient which i had use for this work)

I call this the Alien Warp Wallpaper.

To do this start GIMP

Start with a new file or should is say canvas of the required screen resolution, I used 1024×768 and white background From the menu (canvas window) select: Filters >> Render >> Lava In the Lava dialogue box uncheck Separate Layer Click on the Gradient Box and select Tropical Colors Click ok to apply the Lava effect to the canvas. You should get a similar to Image 1. I would like to call this as the Alien Space

Image 1. Alien Space Pattern generated using Lava Filter

Next from the menu select: Filters >> Render >> Line Nova and click ok. (I have used default settings. Try different combination of values to get different warp radius and speed). Your Alien Warp Wallpaper is ready!

Image 2. Alien Warp