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Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - Ofnuts - 06-06-2021
The fundamentals of the tartan cloth (plaid for americans) are well described on Wikipedia and are very simple. They are easy to reproduce on Gimp:
Creating the tartan "tile"
- Create a small square image (this will be your tartan "tile"). Its side must be a multiple of 4 (for instance, 40x40)
- Fill it with horizontal bands of color of different widths (usual tartan patterns use three colors, and there is a vertical symmetry).
- Duplicate the layer
- Rotate the top layer 90°
- Add a layer mask to the top layer
- Bucket fill the mask of the top layer with the attached TartanWarpMask pattern
- And there you are
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You can export the image at that point and put it (as .PNG or .PAT) in your patterns folders for later use.
For an immediate test, do Edit ➤ Copy visible and select the "Clipboard" pattern (always first in the list) then bucket-fill
your target image with the pattern
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RE: Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - Ofnuts - 06-06-2021
Using a symmetric layer:
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RE: Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - nelo - 06-06-2021
Thank you!
RE: Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - denzjos - 06-07-2021
Nice tutorial Ofnuts, some ideas : https://www.lochcarron.co.uk/tartan-finder/
RE: Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - PixLab - 06-14-2021
Thank you Ofnuts and thanks denzjos for the link, indeed it gives good ideas
RE: Tartan (a.k.a. plaid) cloth in a few easy steps - Ofnuts - 06-14-2021
This method has been scripted, see https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-tartan