ok, guys, i was wondering if i finally had this floating selection problem solved because i am pretty much dead in the water without layers and cut and paste. so i opened gimp and just used the default black brush and made a bunch of black squiggles on a white canvas. then i altered that version with a filter. and, drum roll please, made them into two layers! well, from there on it was a lot of fun as I just tried different tools and different settings until I had something that looked like a painting instead of squiggles. I have called the squiggles begin and where i ended up as end as you can see them in this album called GIMP located here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/carolkirvin best way to see them is in slideshow. some of the things i used: several filters (blinds and weave were the best), shear, colorify, poster, levels, eraser, hue-saturation, layer modes (all the time, as per usual; I am constantly blending and reblending layers ). i had never tried shear before in GIMP and that really helped bring it together too. i did try some things that didn't work and that always happens as i'm playing around. i either revert or go into history, depending on how far off course i've gone. i spent about 45 minutes to an hour on it. it was fun. -- carol
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