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    Wip ZombieNirvana in GIMP - up to #6

    Here's my attempt at using the ideas and techniques from the Zombie Nirvana podcasts. Before I started this, my skills in GIMP were limited to basic photo editing. Now, although I'm working with an older version (2.2 - grrr that nobody has made a package for 2.4 for older Ubuntu installations), I'm managing to figure my way through some of this.



    Things I've had to adapt for GIMP:

    - Patterns - scaling isn't done on the fly (I think that's possible in 2.4) but I create separate images for the patterns, scale them and put them in the pattern's folder. It's a bit more time consuming, but I get the same effect. I do a bucket fill into a new layer. I created two layers for two different forest patterns (just offset/horiz flipped one) and carefully masked that way.

    - The wood cut. Oy. There's a separate post (do a search on wood block) where RobA talked about how to use the Newsprint filter to duplicate the wood cut. I masked, created the basic lake shape, put it in a separate image, applied a gauss blur (two of them), merged layers, converted to grayscale, applied the newsprint and the copied/pasted back to my full image. Tedious, but I couldn't seem to make grayscale layers in an RGB image. Maybe there's a way to do this with thresholds, but I'm at the limit of my GIMP knowledge with all this.

    So here's where I'm at and I'm about to move to podcasts 7 through 10. I'm very certain I'll have tons more questions.

    Neurowiz

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobA View Post
    You can use the newsprint in rgb as well. Just make the r, g, and b settings all the same and it will work just like it is greyscale.

    -Rob A>
    Well, there you go. I'll remember that for the next one.

    I finished podcast 7 - which ended up being paths in GIMP. Neat stuff. I find myself wanting to go back and start over, but I'm going to tough it out and keep what I have. I did make my border on my lake thinner (which was a frustrating exercise in learning what selections and masks don't do... ended up being easier to just use the eraser) and now I'm off to make towns.

    Neurowiz

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