New Gimper question on texture as object

[Espermaschine]

(09-22-2018, 04:46 PM)StylinLP38 Wrote: Holy crap! What is those textures/brushes/textures what ever they are on the left side of this youtube video I am watching????

In Photoshop a brush can also contain a brush dynamic, which gives the brushstroke a very painterly and/or textured effect.
These can mostly be imitated easily in Gimp, with random size, Jitter and random Opacity, an angled brushtip etc.
This feature is even more powerful with a pressure sensitive graphics tablet, but its currently broken in Gimp.

A Gimp Brushdynamic can be saved but its always seperate from a specific brush.

For an interesting example, which shows how stunning effects and textures can even be produced from simple shaped brushes, look here:
https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Parametri...s-download

(look especially at all the custom curves in the dynamics manager)

When making custom brushes its best to make sure they are created in Grayscale mode, so they can take any colour you want, not just the one it originally had ! (the wikiHow page doesnt say that)

[StylinLP38]

Thanks for the advice guys. I will add shading after I finish the fences and put down Tree's and Bushes. This is what the fences look like so far. I tried for hours and hours to find a brush that could make fences for me but none of the youtube video's helped at all. Not one bit. I even put in hours on the Paths Tool. No good. So I drew these objects by hand and just Copy Paste then into the spot. Taking FOREVER. Wish there was a faster way and wish someone had actually made post fences and stone walls to download on the internet. But it seems no one has done that before. sigh...

[Blighty]

(09-26-2018, 02:52 AM)StylinLP38 Wrote: I tried for hours and hours to find a brush that could make fences for me

Here is a way to make fences. Just using the standard brushes that come with Gimp. No need to search for any brushes on the internet.

1) Create 2 new transparent layers above your image. Name them Fence1 and Fence2

2) Select select Fence1 layer

3) Create a selection where you want a fence. Use the Free Select tool
(Note: the Path Tool will give better results, but for now use the Free Select tool)
https://imgur.com/a/dZA0qEd

4) Set the Brush options like this:
https://imgur.com/a/uO6WY1N

5) Edit > Stroke Selection like this:
https://imgur.com/a/TPfzQN8

6) Select the layer Fence2

7) Repeat above with these brush settings:
https://imgur.com/a/ta3NNee

8) Adjust the Opacity of layers Fence1 and Fence2 if required

You can do something similar for the stone walls.

[StylinLP38]

Thank you for the procedure. I tried to do something like that before but didn't know about the two layer trick. I will try that on a scratch layer to see how it works. But I already created a stone wall from scratch and manually pasted them in one at a time all over the map. I also added that shadow on the hill. Now need shadows around the houses. Then add farm animals and maybe a cart or two. This is how it looks so far.

Noooo, I made some last minute changes and added the complete hill on the right side. Connecting it. What the hell. I clicked SAVE a bunch of time. Omg so frustrating using the tool. Lucky I didn't loose those Fences or I would delete this app and never look back. sigh.

[Blighty]

(09-26-2018, 06:12 AM)StylinLP38 Wrote: Now need shadows around the houses.

Always use lots of layers.

Houses go on their own layer.
House Shadows go on their own layer, this just below the Houses layer.

This makes editing easy.

[StylinLP38]

Ok I made layers for everything. Added Tree's and Bushes. I guess I should make a shadow layer for the fences too?
It looks like I made the shadow around the hilltop too dark. got to fix that.

[StylinLP38]

Completed project.