I sure wish there was a plug-in that could make a blend that blends from a contoured edge to a straight edge like this image I have place:



A plug in that can take an image on a layer and continually make copies and resize horizontally and change the colors as it gets thinner would make a whole bottle type of object. Thats what I would like to find.

Alan

Have a look at the CloneLayer Tool, if you have GIMP 2.7.x. It won't do everything but it might get you started.

Here ya go, hot of the presses: http://silent9.com/incoming/sc ... _blend.scm

It will use the active gradient and blend it across the current selection (or the whole image if no selection - but that is silly to do...) either horizontally or vertically:


There is one oddity - it seems to have a bug on my system in the horizontal mode where I get a PDBCallback error on the progress bar, which is why I've redirected the error messages to the console. It doesn't happen in the vertical mode, oddly enough, so runs much slower in the vertical mode as it updates the progress bar when blend is called.....

-Rob A>

Wow! Thanks RobA

That looks really good. Looks like it would work perfectly. It even can follow two contours on each side of the selection. Can't wait to try it.

I am a graphic designer and not very good with scripts. Can somebody show me what to do with the script text? Do I just save it as a .txt file and put it into my Gimp 2.6 scripts folder?

Alan

You save the text as a SCM extension in your scripts folder.

Hrmmm..horizontal blend worked okay for me vertical takes awhile.
Then it works




I take it this is for 2 color gradients only?
Whats the difference in just using a gradient fill for the selection?

Right click the link and save the .scm file into your C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.gimp-2.6\scripts folder rather than the gimp installation folder (assuming you are using windows XP). Not sure where the comparable location is in other versions of windows. In most linux distributions it would be ~/.gimp-2.6/scripts

-Rob A>

Not sure why vertical didn't work. Oddly enough it is much slower because it is working correctly (The blend call updates the progress bar)

It works for me. Do you get errors?


It will work with ANY gradient, (what ever is active).

EDIT: I've uploaded a new version that provides a gradient picker and a reverse checkbox to reverse the gradient.

The gradient follows the shape of the selection in a horizontal or vertical manner - something that can't be done with the a gradient fill on the whole selection.

-Rob A>

A slightly different approach from Mr A's, the following script will add a command "Filters->Distorts->Contour Fill Selection", which will scale each row of the current layer to fill the selection. It probably still needs some work but seems to be in a somewhat usable state.

http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/rep ... d6366b14ed

Example (selection outlined in blue):



Produces the following new layer (original layer and selection are retained):

I do not get any errors at all.It just doesn't blend correctly with vertical.
I am downloading your new one now.

Thanks Saulgoode.

Oh, I need to check out saulgoode's too.

This is RobA's. I used horizontal for the frowny O and the vertical for the background.

OK my real stupidity is showing now. I have saved the .scm file in my scripts folder but now what do I do? I can't find it in the [file create] or [script fu] pull down menus.

Alan

Very nice script RobA, thanks now for Saul's.

Look under select > selection blend

You need to refresh your scripts: Filters > Script-Fu > Refresh Scripts. Or you can close and re-open GIMP.

You will find the script in the image menu under Select > Selection Blend.

Wow Saulgoode that works pretty nice!



Basically i can now take any image and warp it to a selection.

Robs doesn't run at all for me now. :\

What is your gimp version?

-Rob A>

RobA's new one didn't run for me either. I used the same image as I did for the first one and the same gradient. After I changed the gradient, it worked fine. Think the gradient may not have "taken" since I hadn't opened a new image.

This is my Saul script

Thanks - That found a little bug.

If you set the gradient-picker default in a script to be "" it shows up in the GUI as the current active gradient, but it gets passed into the script itself as "" if you don't actually click on it and select a gradient - which I had to check for.

I've updated the file.

-Rob A>