I've just moved to Gimp from PSE after a final-straw glitch. Gimp looks great.
I'd like to find an equivalent to the content-aware healing brush of PSE.
I've spent an hour trying to get the Resynthesizer plug-in working. Is there an easier way to accomplish this, or should I continue trying to get Resynthesizer working?
Error message when try to Heal Selection: Calling error for procedure 'gimp-procedural-db-proc-info': Procedure 'plug-in-resynthesizer' not found
Problem when installing:
Als-iMac:lib Al$ cd /usr/local/lib
Als-iMac:lib Al$ ls /usr/local/lib/libintl*
ls: /usr/local/lib/libintl*: No such file or directory
Als-iMac:lib Al$ brew update
Already up-to-date.
Als-iMac:lib Al$ ls libintl*
ls: libintl*: No such file or directory
Als-iMac:lib Al$ ls
Als-iMac:lib Al$ ls *
ls: *: No such file or directory
Als-iMac:lib Al$
You will need to lay 2 eggs, not one... but two!
The first egg will be your map, the second one will be your colored egg with already a 3D shadowy effect.
No worries, once you did laid your first egg, you just apply the 2 filters used on the first egg to the second one.
GIMP will keep the setting of these two filters you've used on the first egg, so it's just a click on the OK button for the second egg.
Having said all that let's lay some eggs.
1) Create a base map
White background
New transparent layer, Filters ➤ Distorts ➤ Mosaic
Hexagons /
Tile size and Tile spacing will depend of your image's size (here it's 1920x1920) /
Tiles height and color variations at the minimum
Light color ➤ Click on it and make it transparent with the "A"(alpha) slider or input zero
Merge down that layer and name it "Map"
Then Filters ➤ Blur ➤ Gaussian blur... (again, blur will depend of your image size, here 3.5 for 1920x1920)
2) Prepare your chocolate
New transparent layer "choco"
Set your FG #86563c / BG #6c3f31 colors (I took it from https://www.schemecolor.com/hot-chocolate.php )
Gradient tool and did something like below
3) Lay your first egg (and the second one at the same time)
Select the "map" layer Filters ➤ Map ➤ Map Object... first tab make transparent background / sphere /new layer... (just look the screenshot below and don't zoom too much at the tab Orientation)
Select the "choco" layer
Just do a Ctrl+F or go to Filters ➤ Repeat "Map Object"
Select the "map" layer
Then Filters ➤ Distorts ➤ Curve bend... see below (use only Upper), I did Rotate for the purpose of this tuto to show you that you can rotate, but if you don't want don't do.
Right click on it Layer to image size
Select "choco" layer
Again just do a Ctrl+F or go to Filters ➤ "Repeat "Curve bend"
Right click on it Layer to Image size
Congratulation you've perfectly laid your two eggs...
4) Getting almost there:
Because of the sphere transformation, in the center of the egg it's more blurred than on the edge, this is absolutely normal, but we do need to compensate or we will have a feeling of a more focused edges or back of the egg than the front.
keep only the "map" layer visible
Right click on that layer in the stack Alpha to selection Select ➤ Save to channel don't forget this step, then go to select back your layer. Select ➤ Invert Select ➤ Grow... this also will depend about your image size, here I did grow about 170 px Select ➤ feather... same as above, it depends about your image size, here I did 22 px.
Then go to the Channels tab.
Right click on "Selection Mask copy" (that's the selection you saved to channel) -> Intersect with selection
Go back to Layers tab and Select your egg layer! Filters ➤ Blur ➤ Gaussian blur... low setting, it's just to "equalize" the side blur with the bulgy front. Select None
Note: Using intersection this way (non feathered selection intersecting a feathered selection) GIMP can have a feathered selection on one side (here inner side) and a not feathered selection on the other side (outer side) in the very same selection.
To continue below (I can't put more images in the same post)
5) Lay your chocolate egg
Only "choco" layer is visible and selected Filters ➤ Map ➤ Bump map... in the aux select your map
then play with sliders like below
Note: "Ambient lighting factor is quite important, it will give a "smoother" carving inside the carving
6) Shadow...
One advice (you take it, or you leave it): don't use Filters ➤ Light and Shadow ➤ Drop Shadow... that's wrong... it flattens behind the egg
Instead, do an alpha to selection on one of the egg ➤ then new layer ➤ fill with black and squeeze it down ➤ then blur and play with transparency, put below "choco", fine tune your squeezing as you wish
I learnt how to overlay a GIF effect on a static image from this excellent forum, it works perfectly with small objects like snow or rain, although when I try to add smoke or light effects, it becomes pixelated and the colour gradient is too noticeable - see below. I am using gimp 2.10
When you open the images, GIMP only show the detail view and it's not easy to find the image what I want at a glance.
How do you change it as grid view?
How To Write/Modify Text Totally Hinted (to look old)
Hello everyone
I guess, at some point in our lives, everyone is going to need to write text, to match imaged 'old text'.
IE. The text is in the image ... it looks great at viewing level, but when zoomed in, the pixel values run from light (at the outskirt) to dark (at the center).
Well; for me, that moment has arrived
Check out the viewed text:
Here is a zoomed view:
Adding text in Gimp (fully hinted):
The problem Is:
When adding new text to the document; it just doesn't match
... it sticks out like a sore thumb
Selecting a custom colour helps; as does reducing layer opacity
... but neither gets to the heart of the problem.
I'm thinking (hoping)...
that this issue has been met, and dealt with, by other members of the gimp community.
... and if so; I'd love to benefit from your experience.
I've been drawing up some clipart style images with black outlines, and am looking to create the "opposite" version of the image.
Attached image bandana 1 is a good example of the type of image I've drawn up. I want then to be able to create image bandana 2, which is a black fill of the "empty" areas of the original drawing. Note this isn't my work, but an example of what I want to achieve!
I've tried the obvious solution on my own work, which is to create a new layer, fill with black and then use the Fuzzy Select or Select By Color tools to highlight the original black outline on my image, and then delete from the black layer to get the black "opposite" image, but it creates very rough and pixelated edge.
Sorry if my wording is confusing - hope the question makes sense!
I have a 32x32 image that I'm trying to export as an .ico file, but the result doesn't look like the preview during the export process.
Why would that be?
I have merged several layers into one layer, and I'm simply choosing that single, merged layer to export. (Not even trying to do the multi-size thing.)
The resulting file looks like a different layer that I didn't even specify during export. ???
![[Image: Spdw4]](https://gifyu.com/image/Spdw4)
