I have a python script (a modification of someone else's)that might do some of what you want...
Do you have python installed?
-Rob A>
Okay, so here's one for you great GIMP overlords of cool:
Say I've got a transparent background tab with some blobs of color on it, and I want to take the smudge tool and randomly smudge these blobs of color inward (toward the center of the blobs) and outward, to give the color blobs a radial-like pattern that blends into the background layer.
Now, let's say I have a lot of these blobs of color, and it's going to take a long time to apply this "radial smudge" to all of them. How, oh great ones, would you automate this to make it easier on yourselves? (I tried using using alpha-to-select then stroke selection with the smudge tool selected, but this basically treated the smudge tool as if it was the painbrush tool, laying down whatever color I'd selected in whatever brush shape I'd selected instead of smudging anything.
Any thoughts would be duly appreciated, in the form of a nice soft wack from my +1 blackjack of repping...
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I have a python script (a modification of someone else's)that might do some of what you want...
Do you have python installed?
-Rob A>
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I'm sorry to suggest the obvious, but Gaussian blur doesn't do the trick? I guess that you are after something a little spikier?
I do indeed... and it appears to be working. (The posts I've been putting up on GURM and the problems I've had there seem to relate to the modifications that needed to be made to the .py and .ini files, but Python itself seems to work fine.)
Nope, I'm afraid not. I'm looking to create a (slightly irregular) radial pattern - like an ugly starburst that fades out, only on highly irregular shapes.
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With the script I munged up, if I start with this:
before.png
and do a selection to alpha then alpha to path, running the script will do this:
after.png
Enlarging and shrinking the selection first (to make an outside path and an inside path), then running the script first on the outside then on the inside I got something like this (after playing with spacing and such):
after2.png
Of course, randomness lengths could be added in. Unfortunately, pdb calls won't use new settings like jitter ;(
Let me know and I'll upload a copy if this is the effect you are looking for.
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
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Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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Why not just use the iWarp tool?
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Rob, I just had a thought, what if you use your top down mountain technique with the angular gradient fill, and then run this on top of the resulting height map?
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Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
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