1.Duplicate The Layer That You Want Scan Lines On

Go to Filters>Distorts>Video On The Duplicate Layer


Set It To 3x3



3. Set The Duplicate Layer Mode To Overlay



You Now Have Good Quick Scan Lines!


p.s. Thanks To The Firminator For Letting me Use One Of His Sigs

nice..if it works ^^ ill try out tomorrow.. not really in the mood off opening gimp 10 min >< didnt knew you could do it like this, thx

sounds simple, the way I make them is....

>start new poject
>5x5 transparent background
>zoom in real close 800x +
>use 1pixel pencil tool
>draw a line diagonally across the canvas



>save as scanline.pat in your patterns folder
>then you can open any project and add a new layer and fill it with scanline pattern

you can make a few pattern like this but with closer lines try 3x3, vertical, horizotal and dots

Yeah I Prefer My Way

I Will Add Some Pictures

p.s. What DO You think Of My First Tut?

Just Added Pictures
ENJOY!

Love it!
Quickest And Easiest Way To Do Scanlines So Far!

Thank You I Loved It And Thought It Was The Best Ever Way To Make Scan Lines
Beats BR7s Method Aye! :l:

Ya But Dont Get Too Cocky
It Is Good Though He he
thats my sig he used

Not sure it's a "better" way to do it than BR7's, just another good way to do it. BR7 also explained how to create various background patterns in addition to scanlines.

It's always good to see members participating. Everyone has something to bring to the table.

Art

hehe...animation is fun...

How do you make it so the scanlines are completely horizontal

do what deception said but make the line from left to right

Create a new top layer then fill with the color of your choice the go to script-fu>alchemy>erase every other row
Then adjust the opacity

if you want vertical lines then change the settings in the erase every other row to columns instead of rows..

by far this is the easiest to do for horizontal scanlines!!!!!!

|Believe there to be scanline filter plugins that would siplify this technique greatly.
|Or have you tried the scriptfu of removing every other line?
Just thoughts.

If you want horizontal or vertical scanlines, simply duplicate the layer then erase every other row/column, and change the layer settings. <Script_Fu - Alchemy - Erase Every Other Row>

Hey, great tut! Its faster than my way of doing them. :l:

Beautiful tutorial, and very easy! I'm sure this hint will be used by me several times. Thank you, and good find!

Great Tut I love it!

nice, it darkens my sig a lot, but nice
those scanlines on my sig, are not scanlines, there brushes made with those lines

This is great. Very easy and effective!

Yeah, that's a good explanation for newer gimpers. I always wished there was an easier way to add scanlines then to needing to make one and save as a gimp pattern.

I surely will be using this method for userbars and scanline renders.

Thanks!

Thanks! This helped a lot, 'specially since I'm new at GIMP. Thanks for the tut!(Great for your first).

Quick and easy although in my view the other way of making a pattern looks most affective

- xox Firefly

ooooh, that's how you do it.. Thanks!