Making "biker gang patches"

[Therealnozz]

Hello! new to the forum,
I need some help because I couldn't find any om YouTube..

Anyone knows how to make typical "biker gang" styled patches? 
Like the top and lower rockers and adding text to that and have and image in the middle. 
Also adding and outer line color, as shown in image. 

This might be very simple but I can't figure it out. 

Thanks in advance! 

   

[Blighty]

I doubt that you find a single tutorial that will give you exactly what you want. An image like that has built up in pieces. You will be able to find tutorials on each individual piece.

The top and bottom rockers are made from pieces of a circle. For this you will need to understand selections. The selection tools have modes "replace selection", "add to selection", "subtract from selection". You will need to use those.
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Painle...tion-tools
The white boarder inside the rocker can be done with Select > Shrink and Edit > Stroke Selection

The text is done with the Text Tool.

The text can be curved with Layer > Text along Path

For this a knowledge of Paths is necessary.
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Paths-...4#pid13654

An image like this is best done in a vector editor (Inkscape) and not a bitmap editor (Gimp). If you do use Gimp be sure to get the initial image size correct as bitmaps don't scale well. (Vector images do scale well).

[rich2005]

@Therealnozz

I agree with Blighty, probably a vector image is best but it is possible using Gimp. I started off making screenshots but too many. Just the way Blighty described it.

Here is a starting basis, note although circular the center is not the center of the canvas. Apart from that, just application of all the  Gimp standard tools in various modes.  see: https://i.imgur.com/OfTxZGg.jpg

Keep an eye open here, I will put together a basic 'how-to' video. (feeling in might regret this statement )

try this process, all basic stuff but quite a bit involved.





direct link https://youtu.be/I36npZcZW7Q duration 12 minutes

[Therealnozz]

(05-11-2019, 08:42 AM)rich2005 Wrote: @Therealnozz

I agree with Blighty, probably a vector image is best but it is possible using Gimp. I started off making screenshots but too many. Just the way Blighty described it.

Here is a starting basis, note although circular the center is not the center of the canvas. Apart from that, just application of all the  Gimp standard tools in various modes.  see: https://i.imgur.com/OfTxZGg.jpg

Keep an eye open here, I will put together a basic 'how-to' video. (feeling in might regret this statement )

try this process, all basic stuff but quite a bit involved.





direct link https://youtu.be/I36npZcZW7Q duration 12 minutes

Thank you very much for this tutorial! This will get me started. 
I'm also going to check out the other program just to see... 

But again this gold worth!

[Therealnozz]

So I'm sort of finished... but i'm happy with it! 

(it's for my upcoming car cruising club here in Sweden)

here's the result: 
   

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(05-11-2019, 08:42 AM)rich2005 Wrote: @Therealnozz

I agree with Blighty, probably a vector image is best but it is possible using Gimp. I started off making screenshots but too many. Just the way Blighty described it.

Here is a starting basis, note although circular the center is not the center of the canvas. Apart from that, just application of all the  Gimp standard tools in various modes.  see: https://i.imgur.com/OfTxZGg.jpg

Keep an eye open here, I will put together a basic 'how-to' video. (feeling in might regret this statement )

Thanks, Rich2005.  I followed your how to video and came out with this: