Wood block stamp style water (S. John Ross' PS tutorial)(+in GIMP)

[Phril]

Thanks a ton, Rob. The newsprint effect is still a little too regular for my tastes, but after fiddling with the displace filter a bit and a few other options, it's definitely a step in the right direction.

Something I discovered: if you're really concerned about the outlines of your shorelines, mask them off before doing the displace. The Y distort will still affect your east-west borders.

I'm experimenting now with using Tools|Color Tools|Threshold.. to add a little more blending between the woodcut lines where they meet the landmass, but that of course drops everything to black & white, which takes a bit of correction. Still, getting there!

[Chgowiz]

RobA - WOW - you just saved me about 3 hours of searching. I had a feeling that if I went through all of the old posts with GIMP in them, I'd find someone who's done something like this. How cool that you did it exactly the same reason I am - following the Zombie videos in GIMP!

Maybe we (OK, you...) should write up how to do Zombie's stuff in GIMP...

Truckin' along...

[Chgowiz]

Alright, I think I got somewhere with this... (click on the picture to see the full size image)



I made my own island (which was a 3 layer chore in and of itself).

Then I airbrushed lightly around the island to create the areas that would be 'cut' out further, similar to what I've seen on Zombie's stuff.

Then I did the newsprint - oh and I made sure that when I did the random clouds, I put the X at zero and Y at largest.

Now the trick will be to do this in the same image that *isn't* grayscale. Not sure how I'm going to tackle that trick.