BASIC RIVET BRUSH

On a transparent layer make a perfectly round selection (hold down <shift> while dragging the selection.



Pick the gradient tool. Make sure you have the default black to white gradient. From here you can do one of two things. You can simply swap the foreground and background colors, or you can just check the "Reverse" box in the gradient tool dialogue.

In the Gradient dialogue, set the gradient type to radial.



Now drag a gradient starting about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way into your circular selection. You should get this. (I purposely did this one kinda large so you can see it better.) Keep your selection active. The second image shows a large and a small rivet. For most purposes, you will want to do a smaller on. I am not gonna give you a specific size...These brushes are easy to make and you can whip one up to suit your needs fairly quick.





This step is optional, but, if you put a new transparent layer BEHIND the rivet and grow your selection by 1-2 pixels, then bucket fill with black, you get a more defined rivet. I like to take this a step further and blur this layer by about 5-7 pixels. Merge the rivet layer and the shadow layer. To get the whole brush, with the shadow, do Layer>Transparency>Alpha to Selection, and grow the selection by enough pixels to get the rivet and the shadow, plus a little more.



Now, do Script-Fu>Selection>Selection to Brush. Fill out the boxes in the dialogue that comes up, make sure the default spacing is set how you want it, and click okay. The script will do its thing, and your new brush will pop up in the brush selection window.

Start clicking rivets.

If you need nice orderly rivets, use guides to position them. I suggest also doing your rivets on their own layer, that way you can experiment with colorizing them to make brass or gold or bronze rivets with Layer>Colors>Colorize.

Cool, but whats a rivet? :w:

From the looks of it a circly ball...

Ooops... realized I left out a step...fixed it.

A rivet is those big bolts that keep the brigdes standing . (Finaly somehing I learned from science)

AAAAAAGH! What are they teaching kids these days!?

A rivet is a metal fastener. You have two pieces of metal you want to hold together. You drill a hole thru them and put in a rivet...its shaped like a screw with no slot and no threads. Rivets can be cold or hot. Basically with a hot rivet, you put this red hot rivet thru the hole, and then swage out the metal on the other side so that it can't pull back thru the hole. When the rivet cools it shrinks, providing further holding force. In cold rivets, the metal is somewhat soft and you take a ball peen hammer and deform the end of the rivet so it won't pull thru the hole. Then there are pop rivets like you can buy at hardware stores.

Here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivet

thats what i meant the thing the uset to keep the golden gate bridge staying up (we are learning about bridges using LEGO : : )

This technique for creating rivets is different than the above..but here is an example of what you could do with rivets...Its a bit dark.

I see, so are those little rivets on your current signature yours? On the sides of the signature?

Yes, those are rivets and yes I made 'em, same technique.

wow most the ppl here dont even know what a rivit is.....how sad :a:

nice tut

Another way a cold rivet can be used is to create a hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the bolt, and then cool the rivet in liquid nitrogen so that it actually shrinks. You then slide it into the hole. It will start to thaw and expand, rendering it impossible to remove. And yes, stefcho, rivets are used more often in large building projects such as buildings and bridges, as you can't really use them in woodworking.

Yeah, they do something similar with various shafts and dowel pins here in the diesel engine factory where I work.

thers also rivit stampers were its got a bunch of rivits on a strip and it goes down and puts a rivit in the metal...

rivet.. man that reminds me of a FROG! :w: (get it ? ribbit, ribbit.. [cough])

But yes, umm nice tutorial, I will use this one day, maybe, tomooooooorow, bet your bottom dollar..

Kelxs dont become a comedian

Moto,don't become a spelling teacher,lol. What is a rivit?

a rivit is somthing thats put into metel to hold it together...we already said that tho

Motox...yer spelling it wrong, that's what he's saying. It is rivet, not rivit...

but whyd he ask what it was?

Because the word rivit with an i instead of an e is made up. Since I had never heard of rivit. I wanted to know what it was

Omg is sarcasm a lost art.

but sarcasm isnt art...jk jk

WHAT is wrong with me having a joke now and then ??? :a:
Man, some people have no concept of the word 'happiness'..

But yeah, don't worry your socks off, I wouldn't make a comedian

And so everyone knows, I'm A G.I.R.L !!! :w: