Re: [Gimp-user] carol the floating selection (now working in layers!)
--- carol irvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! I did this in 2.2.17 and I didn't get another layewr. Was the layer created automatically? Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545469 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] carol the floating selection (now working in layers!)
no, my habit on this type of thing is to separately save the two versions (to desktop while working; to be moved when done). I then pick one of the images with SelectAll and EditCopy. I then go to the other image and hit EditPaste. I now have 2 layers which show up in the layers palette, one image atop the other. The next thing I do, because it really helps with creation of an idea, is to go through the layer modes and see if any combination sparks an idea within me. I got my best ideas in the given example with the following Mode Combos: Difference (always dramatic), Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge. I chose Difference because the result reminded me of a dramatic woodcut. I flattened it, saved it as a 3rd file on the desktop and then proceeded to play with other tools in Gimp till I got something I liked. BTW, with my method, it always does open to the same file folder (in this case desktop) because I'm creating new files from previous files. I get rid of all the inbetween versions (typically) when I finally have something I like. Every once in awhile I'll end up with a alternate version or two which I also like but it is pure dumb luck. And I sometimes end up with total mud and trash everything. the most usual scenario in ending up with mud is that i've gone too far. by contrast, i almost always get good results if i don't overdo it on the technique end. (this is true in every media of art, not just digital art) carol On 10/2/07, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- carol irvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! I did this in 2.2.17 and I didn't get another layewr. Was the layer created automatically? Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545469 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] carol the floating selection (now working in layers!)
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 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] carol the floating selection (now working in layers!)
On Monday 01 October 2007 13:57:40 carol irvin wrote: then i altered that version with a filter. and, drum roll please, made them into two layers! Tah-daaah! Round of applause! (-: Perhaps GIMP can develop some new modes so that future versions of plugins etc can *optionally* make a new layer as they go? Cheers; Leon ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
