I found a cool tut on making broken glass images.Unfotunately,I believe it's in portuguese.You'll hyave to use a translator with it.(unless you know portuguese!lol)

http://www.gimp.com.br/tutoriais/vidro_quebrado/

I don't know if this works,but i'll try this translated link as well.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=pt_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gimp.com.br%2Ftutoriais%2Fvidro_quebrado%2F&intl=1


Deslocar - displace
Desfocar - blur

Ok guys I translated this for all of you the best that I could......I'm fairly possitive that this is correct but I didn't have time yet to try it and see if it works how I translated it. Hopefully someone or people can try it out to see how it is

Part 1
-Open any image.

Part 2
-Creates another clear layer, design lines as shown below. Change the name of this layer to "lines" - To design straight lines, with the brush, click in a
point of the screen and press the shift key

Part 3
- Create a white layer.
- Duplicate the layer "lines" and position the copy on the white layer.
- Merge the duplicated "lines" layer with the white layer

Part 4
- With the "Bucket" tool, fill the spaces with tones of gray.
- Hairpiece the screen Filters => Blur=> Gaussian Blur (h=3, v=3).
- Change the name of the layer to "gray"

Part 5
- In the layer "Image", hairpiece the screen: Filters=> Map => Displace (x=30, y=30), use the layer "gray" as the map layer

Part 6
- Organize the layers as shown below.
- Change the mode of the layers "lines" and "gray" to "divide".
- Change the opacity of the layer "lines" and "gray" to 35.

ok so I decided to go ahead and try this out on a picture of myself and this is what I got:

very nice results billabongpnkrckr...

regards

Nice job Bill. I've made better pics than this one below,but this is fun to watch anyways. :l:

This one's a little better.This guy in this pic is weird! lol

What happened to Chuck's toes?! That last dude is scaaaaaarrrry! Good job!

Thanks for converting the tutorial.

Art

rimshot, i love it!! your tries are awesome! see, now im tempted to try it myself hehe

I just re-read the translated version billabongpnkrckr posted! Almost spit Mtn. Dew on the monitor screen after reading/laughing how babelfish translated a couple of the steps. Still looking for the "hairpiece" filter. If anyone knows how I can use the hairpiece tool, I would appreciate it! :w:

This one came out better! :l:

I read the actual Babelfish tranlation,and it translated it as "wall lamp",which is just as confusing!lol! I don't know where Bill got hairpiece,but being all bald myself,I could probably use one! bwhahahaha!!!

This is way off-topic, but I think the next time I do a tutorial, I'm gonna throw in a "wall lamp" or "hairpiece" filter reference just for grins! :w:

haha yeah I don't know how I got that either

chuck norris eats the heart of his enemies , he scares me

Tatami slippers i think...

Nice work here... :h:

wow, another great tutorial (and translation)! the great tutorials just keep coming and coming here on gimptalk!

great tutorial...

i have a question. if i were to make an animation and i wanted to make broken glass animated does anyone kno a way to continue this even further? should i just resize the broken part? and what about the glass pieces going apart and flying and flipping in the air and stuff...

Omfg...XD
Hairpiece...Wall lamp...Hairlamp and wallpiece...

This is what I got for a first attempt! (It looks bigger here than the original.)

That's awesome!... I translated and got "wall lamp the filter"!!!!! Hairpiece? Wall Lamp?! :l: Insanely funny, impressive tut. Great animations too, Rimshot!

Broken Santa.

Since I'm a lazy b@$tard, I used GIMP's Mosaic filter to create the triangular lines, but pretty much did the above (well, with a few embellishments). Used this image from the Free Photos Index.



Edit:

Also decided to Mugl it up a bit (Mathmap Mugl preset).