Engraving designs into textures

#1 Bbasic

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 01:11 AM

Hi all, I'm new to gimp. I was wondering if there was a tut on how to engrave a design into a texture in gimp like this tut for photoshop found here. http://www.digitalim...with-photoshop/

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#2 Bbasic

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 05:34 AM

Hmm. I'll take the silence as a no go for gimp having this capability. Every turn seems to be taking me towards photoshop. Bummer cause it's so damn expensive.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 08:16 AM

Bbasic, on 01 February 2012 - 05:34 AM, said:

Hmm. I'll take the silence as a no go for gimp having this capability. Every turn seems to be taking me towards photoshop. Bummer cause it's so damn expensive.

You'd be mistaken... http://docs.gimp.org...u-carve-it.html

You can also do it by hand ("Filters/Map/Bumpmap", essentially)

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#4 Cytrom

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 09:26 AM

You could probably achieve a similar effect using the layer effects (http://registry.gimp.org/node/186) plugin.

Edit: yup, just whipped this up to quickly demonstrate...
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(pretty rough job, but whatever, just wanted to show its possible)

This post has been edited by Cytrom: 03 February 2012 - 11:05 AM

#5 lylejk

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:18 AM

Copy your artwork on top layer and texture on base layer. Click on base layer and run bumpmap filter (default source will be top layer). done

#6 Bbasic

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Posted 05 February 2012 - 03:07 AM

Hey thanks guys! I just tried a black on white background line art image and did as lylejk said. Not to great. It still wanted to show the black lines. Do i need to go with white on black or something? Not sure what i'm doing wrong.

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#7 Bbasic

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Posted 05 February 2012 - 03:39 AM

Ok i'm starting to understand a little. First image is just a &amp;amp;quot;bevel and emboss. The second pic is bevel and emboss then I used bump map. The bump map actualy revealed some the lins that the line art had in it. Still doesn't really look engraved on the interior lines though. Loading pics is a pain in th ars on this forum. Can't tell if it's uploading or not. Enabled the flash uploader that is supposed to give you a progress bar but it doesn't work. ther should be two pics with this post. grrr.

This post has been edited by Bbasic: 05 February 2012 - 03:53 AM