RobA, everything you do just turns into awesome doesn't it?Although there were quite a few grunge brushes to choose from, I guess that lets people have their own style.
RobA, everything you do just turns into awesome doesn't it?
And our time is flyin', see the candle burnin' low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old
~The Rover - Led Zeppelin
Thanks soooooo much - for saving me a lot of time on many projects!
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I went through the tutorial and here's what I noted.
When trying to shrink, make sure the white background layer is selected. Then select by using select all (ctrl-a) and then go to select->Shrink.
The PDF mentions distress, but in newer Gimp versiosn, this is now called DISTORT and is also under select.
Very useful! I'll try.
@arjent -
Try taking a greyscale copy of the paper and pasting it into the layer mask of the text.
You might have to invert it and/or play with levels/curves to get it looking good, but it should definitely work.
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Ah, ok! Thanks for the help! I'm not exactly sure how to paste something into a layer mask...
but making a second copy of the paper (with blobs and texture separate) as an overlay, then using a selection channel to cut out everything that overlapped the text. Cramming all the levels together to exaggerate the high-low (or else you can't see it) and adding heavy slur to the blobs layer to simulate spreading ink. The idea here was a handout to print, cut into 4 sections and give out as little finds all leading up to some sort of puzzle/whatnot.
This is my first ever antique scrap paper (and my first art here) and I'm pretty happy with it. Thanks for the help RobA, and also for the tutorial that inspired it! Consider this part 1 in my RobA tutorial "Thanks for helping me learn" tribute series. =)
Cool symbols.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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The symbols are brushes from Deviant Art. Arcana..or Arcane brush...something like that.
I tried this tutorial and I got good results...
The map is not mine, I got it from here: http://www.mapscroll.fi/images/maanmitta_kartta.jpg
Hi everyone,
This is an interesting method for creating an "aged parchment" look. It's a little different than the one I've been using, which is based on Butch Curry's method (see my Gimp adaptation of Curry's "Fantasy Cartography with Adobe Photoshop" video tutorials, in this same forum thread).
One question though--I have Gimp 2.6.8, and I can't find the menu/dialog for changing layer modes. In the help documentation for 2.6, it lists layer modes as being available, but I can't find them where the doc says to find them. Does anyone here that's familiar with Gimp know what I'm missing here?
Thanks in advance.
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