Creating a roll of parchment in GIMP

[Ghostman]

STEP 3: Parchment

Copy both the handles & discs and the roll between them and position these copies a desired distance down from the originals. Skip this step if you want only a single roll.

Now the obvious thing missing is the length of parchment between the rolls. This is easily accomplished with a rectangular selection. You should intentionally extend the selection too much in the vertical direction, so that it overlaps with the rolls. Before filling with color, apply a distort effect (available as a scrip-fu script in GIMP), Sharpen, and use the wand tool to deselect any remaining overlap with the rolls.



The distort effect makes the edges of the parchment rough-looking. Tweak the input values until you get something that looks good. Finally, color the selection. Now we have all the shapes that will be needed.