Greetings & Salutations

Draconian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:51 pm **(#1)**

Hello everyone,

I really enjoy dinking around in gimp. I'm 62, unintentionally retired, chillin' in Dallas, TX in this 104 degree weather. I have lots of time to try all the tutorials and scripts found here and there are a ton of them. Thanks to all the contributors. Fencepost stands out for some reason, but there are many others just as good if not better.

I uploaded a few of my latest efforts, just goofing around with some of the stuff I got from this site, but I have a lot to learn yet.

Keep 'em comin'

nixnine · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:59 pm **(#2)**

Groovy work, man.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:42 pm **(#3)**

to Gimp Chat, Draconian. Wow, you have some fabulous stuff. Thanks for sharing!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Double Wow, Gosh those pool balls look just like glass and your water drops are fantastic. I would sure like to know how you did that.

BTW, Welcome to GC. :yr

ZioDark · **Joined:** Jun 24, 2011 **Posts:** 22

Wow, awesome stuff an those pool ball look like you could almost touch them. That's amazing.
Welcome to Gimp Chat.

Draconian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:01 pm **(#6)**

Thanks, everyone. I'm definitely a dragon lover and I love your dragon sig Nixnine. The pool balls were a PS tutorial that showd all the steps and I just dinked around with Light and shadow and about a million layers to capture the same effect. the water thingy was from a Youtube tut done by xgeous. If anybody is interested, here 'tis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V9E7wZG ... er&list=UL

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thank you Draconian. I love the look of those water drops

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Welcome to the family.

Amanda47 · **Joined:** Mar 08, 2011 **Posts:** 155

xgeous has some awesome tutorials. Welcome to here!

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:06 am **(#10)**

to the forums. Nice work!!

Draconian · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:54 am **(#11)**

I have to say that's very high praise coming from you. I've seen a lot of your work and mine looks like a 1st grader's attemp in comparison. Glad to hear from you and thanks. I've been on here all day today!

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:38 pm **(#12)**

Thanks for the kind words Draconian but the reality is that most of the members here are much better at manipulating GIMP that I am. The nice thing about the GIMP community is that even though we all have our strengths and weaknesses (and sometimes disagreements), we can come together to work toward the common goal of promoting/supporting GIMP and other related FOSS. You clearly have a knack for GIMP and you're a welcome addition to the community.

cecilia · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:49 pm **(#13)**

Draconian wrote:

Thanks, everyone. I'm definitely a dragon lover and I love your dragon sig Nixnine. The pool balls were a PS tutorial that showd all the steps and I just dinked around with Light and shadow and about a million layers to capture the same effect. the water thingy was from a Youtube tut done by xgeous. If anybody is interested, here 'tis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V9E7wZG ... er&list=UL

Very interesting video! Thanks for giving me something else to play with

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Love this tutorial but I can't seem to make my text white and clear.

cecilia · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:00 pm **(#15)**

molly wrote:

Love this tutorial but I can't seem to make my text white and clear.

I noticed that as well and went back to :colpick

find the exact color of the text (I picked the middle area if that makes sense). then did another Color to Alpha. that did it

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thank you Cecilia. I will give that a try. I think this one may be better. still a touch of black tho.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Hi Draconian...great to have another older person here...I'm 63yo...I love what you have been making...the pool balls are fantastic as is the water drops as well...thanks for sharing them with us..

cecilia · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:00 pm **(#18)**

molly wrote:

Thank you Cecilia. I will give that a try. I think this one may be better. still a touch of black tho.

it may be related to how thick the font face is........

in my experiment I picked the color that was the middle tone...about here:

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try to zoom in on your image to find that 'sweet spot'......I know it's tricky because I had to try a few times

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

thought I'd give it a go. very busy tutorial but some interesting effects there...Thanks
PS...Ilove the music choices and I have subscribed as well!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

very nice akky, You did a very good job on the transparency.