Hope you like this tutorial :h:
It now can be downloaded at deviantart

1.Open a 3pixel x 3pixel transparent background

2.Goto view zoom 1600%

3. Select your pencil tool and select the smallest circle brush you should have it because it comes with gimp and make this pattern

Also make these patterns as well using steps above you will have different looking grids

after your done making a grid save as pattern and put it in your Gimp patterns folder and your done
and you should have stuff like this


Also to use these scanlines you have to select your clone tool and then select pattern source and you pick one of the scan lines you just made make a new trans layer and brush away the bigger the brush the faster you will get done

Remember always make a new trans layer above or below the image you want scanlines on never put them on the image you can if you want but if you make a mistake you there goes your image or background

Nice tutorial, it'll go well with the Samus banner I'm making.

Thanks regimen de caos I think they work well on sigs.When your done please post what you did I would like to see :l:

My EYES!!!
them grids are painful to looks at

anyway back on topic nice sig maybe ill use some day..

@drogonZX
LOL yea I should have made them smaller its good thing you dont have to look at them long.Just to put a another tip to to this thread you can also make letters doing this not all the letters but some

BR7 Good Tut But Too Complicated For Me So I Came Up With A Simpler Method:
http://www.gimptalk.com/topic.php?a=v&t=1466&f=14

I seen that its a nice tut:h:.I allready have all my scanlines made but I did try your method its easy but I would like to have the choice of different looks mine gives.I dont know how my tut is to hard it only took me 5min to make all of them lol :w:

I Prefer Bloggs One Difiantly

you mind telling me what your theme is? is it custom?

Nice tut i love the options it gives me :h:

I think I have seen this exact tutorial on another site.

Can you post what I should save it as etc? I saved it as a Gimp patern and put it in my paters folder but when i open it nothing happends and the icon is only one of the little scanline type things,

Thanks
Gus

I find it easier to use <Filters - Distorts - Video> and choose something from there.

well br7's tut has more choices than the video filter

ok i'm confused as to how you got a huge grid out of that one little pattern you made on like the first step.

You get a pattern by using the clone tool, set to "pattern source", pick a brush any brush, then brush them on a new layer. He put it right there as the last step.

i don't like this method,there are much simpler ways to make scanlines

Simpler? The only other way that I have seen is by using the Distorts way(Which is only good for diagonal-right lines). Please enlighten us.

my bad,ur right,i thouhgt i saw something for scanelines like these,but it was sumtin different X.x

great tut,i will use it soon

Or just bucket fill with a pattern. Saves you all that brushing.

It is the best tutorial I have ever read. It teaches you to fish. It does not give you the fish.

how do you save as a pattern? Is there a certain format or something? (like .gif, png. if you didn't know..)

You can do this 2 different ways.
You can either go to Script-Fu>selection>to Pattern or you can save it as a .pat file and put it in your pattern folder.

This worked great.

And thanks HippieKender for how to save.

wow haven't read this thread for a long time..
thanks hippiekender, and thanks BR& for the scanline tut =]