Hello,

This is my first post here and I hope I do not brake any rules etc.
I have searched forums but I could not really find the answer I was looking for (or I searched wrong)

I am developing aircraft for X-Plane simulator.
The newest version of it has ability to edit how metallic and shiny object is.

Without going into details, friend of mine told me that I need to paint in blue channel with colors from black through any shades of grey to white.
This different "grayness" will give in simulator different levels of surface looking like metal.

To make object more or less shiny( reflective), I am supposed to also make a map from black-any shade of grey-white color map and paste it into alpha channel.

My questions are:

1. How do I paint in blue channel?
Can I paint in different layer with different shades of grey and then just copy and paste it into blue channel?
Do R and G channels need to be visible while I m doing it?

2. How do I paint in alpha channel?
Do I also make my grey shades map in different layer and then paste it into alpha channel?

I am sure these are the basic, trivial questions but I am not even close to feel comfortable with Gimp except routine things I do all the time with UV maps.

Please explain it to me in the simplest way possible.

Thank you in advance.

Andrzej

Aligning multiple radius image frames to swap in different images?

Quote:A couple of highly skilled lads have asked me to sort their postcard out.

I'm happy with the text and artisan logo concept.
The borders need tweaking as do the letter spacing... but that's fine.

The image size is almost there (to have equal borders).
It has to be 6 or 12 images.
12 shows more skills.... 6 shows bigger images.

However, the same question exists.

Okay! Since I pretty much have it memorized when I open something in Gimp (2.8).
Let's see..

Colors-Brightness 10 Contrast 5
Colors-Hue Saturation-Hue 25
Filters-Enhance-Sharpen-Sharpness 50
Colors-Levels-Middle of Input Levels 1.15
Filters-Light and Shadow-Lighting effects-Light tab (type None)-Material tab-Material Properties-Glowing 1.15
Colors-Hue Saturation-Hue 28
Colors-Levels-Middle of Input Levels 0.70

When I use basic math to combine some of those (Hue Saturation or Input Levels), it doesn't come out as intended.
I have been doing the above with screenshots of games and game textures that make objects in games appear more detailed.
Though I've done it.. probably for over a year? The process takes too long. Say, for a huge folder with thousands of game textures!
I'm looking for a way to combine all of those functions into one use somehow :­D Like one or two clicks?

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The "new gen" CRT displays... My first PC had a green-on-black monochrome display.

Hi Guys!
Thanks for re-booting the forum.
I've had a right run around tonight, until I finally saw the 'it's dead Jim' note at the top of Gimptalk

Whoever put it there as a sticky... well done!

I'm not a heavy poster, but from time to time I find a strange problem.
I've just put one up tonight, that I know others have struggled with and failed to find a solution.
Maybe it's just a bug.

Anyway, thanks for being here.

Marco-gimp

How to re-edit a text layer after saving xcf file and re-loading it?

This is a multi-layer xcf file with layers of text, and various layers of graphics.


Normally, selecting the text layer and text tool, allows the user to click on the text. The text box becomes active and adjustable, and text can be edited.

However, I have just re-loaded an xcf file - saved as - and found the text layers to be uneditable. 
The text border is dotted. 

Any attempt to click on it simply starts a new text layer.

It is as if the layer is locked. If so, how do I unlock it?
Note: the chain lock is not active.

I re-loaded the original xcf file.... it is the same.
It worked perfectly before saving and closing the file.

Is this a known bug?
It has happened to me before.
Also, after googling this problem, others have also experienced it, but I could find no satisfactory solution.

I have other xcf files that can be saved and the text re-edited.
Can anybody help?

GIMP 2.8.14

 

So for your classic photochop fun: 
swapping faces from one person to the other, 
whats the best way to adjust the skin color so that it matches ?

I usually just eye it with 'Hue-Saturation' and/or 'Colour Balance' and the result is mostly not very great.

There is also this technique:
http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/07/getting...color.html

which i find pretty hard to do.

Also not too keen on the 'Seamless Blending' G'MIC filter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e6FikWMkaQ

Advice please.

Just added to the SourceForge collection.

Nothing earth-shattering, it is for the time being mostly a rewrite and repackaging of:

• delete-strokes
  
• reverse-strokes
  
• path-splice-strokes
  
• path-summary
  
• decompose-strokes
  

As title says. Is there a specific theme setting for this or will it change the font in many other places?