Topic: Another Satin Texture

[GimpGuy2000]

 Hi all. I was trying to create a satin type texture in Gimp which is still far from perfected but enough for a tut. That said, fencepost had a satin tut which I had no idea until he pointed it out, but my way is much different and may accomplish a different look for different "satin needs?" So fencepost was nice enough to say, "go for it" so I thank him for that. So, onward...

note: my daughter made her X-mas list on my written tut so i now have to lib this thing a bit but it will be very close to what I had written.

 Let's start by opening a simple layer, just the basic default will do, and name it whatever you like. We are only working with one layer here so no worries and if you lose your place with one layer, quit your meds man!

  1. Set the blending tool to Bi-linear, choose the colors BLACK and GRAY. Offset should be "0". The gray should be set to 4b4b4b, 7b7b7b will work too, or adjust as you like but something darker is better. As well, try to blend at an angle.

 

 2. Select the ellipse tool, however, set it to feathered edges by checking the box. Now, if I can read through the scribble that is now a two year old's X-mas list, it should be set to 47.1 for the feather. It can be more if you like but shouldn't be less.
Now that you have that set, make a circle, use bucket fill and set it to either full opacity and no less than 79 and fill in the fuzzy circle. you can do another as well but the object here is not to fill the WHOLE area up. See below.



 3. Ok, now it's time for some curves adjust. I posted a shot of how I did this but everyone's may differ. So , the object is to get a shiny look but not too shiny.




 4.  Now that we have those, go into motion blur and choose ZOOM and make sure it's checked to outer. Set to about 153 and blur it.



 5. Now it's time for lighting effects. So go to filters, lighting effects and here is where you will go to material tab, select glow rate to about 32. Also, we want to bumpmap this so go to the bumpmap and set it to about 4. Go ahead and light effect it.



 6. Now let's re-do the motion blur, same as before.



7. Now, let's do a gaussian blur set to 5-7, but no less or more.




8. Now the fun part, we go to filters, distorts, Iwarp and we set the both radius and amount all the way to the right, both full. Now  select the shrink select and go to the middle of the picture and begin clicking in the middle to shrink it in. Don't do too much, if you get too many creases, it won't work as well. You can shrink it from another point as well, doesn't have to be middle but for the tut, that's where we will be. Now for the even "funner"    part...., we go to color tools, curves, and adjust it to where we feel it's shiny.Don't over do it, else it won't work. After you get just enough shiny effect, and by all means mess around a bit, it's going to vary per person.




 9.     Now go to tools, color tools, colorize and set the top slider all the way to the left, the middle all the way to the right, and the bottom slider you can adjust to get the right dark\bright.



 10.  Now, we go back into curves again and adjust for more shiny but it's all going to vary on the user once again...so that said, I will include the screenshots, as well, adjust more than once as I did...





 11.   Final product, and you are done!





Cheers,

Paul

[Toads Dont Exist]

Wow!
It's awesome how you managed to get a similar effect to Fence's tut
using a completely different method

I'll have to try your method when i get home
:+karma: to you Paul

[fencepost]

Wow!
It's awesome how you managed to get a similar effect to Fence's tut
using a completely different method

I'll have to try your method when i get home
:+karma: to you Paul

There's definitely more than one way to skin a cat! 

Nice job, Paul.  Thanks for sharing.

Art

[GimpGuy2000]

Wow!
It's awesome how you managed to get a similar effect to Fence's tut
using a completely different method

I'll have to try your method when i get home
:+karma: to you Paul

Thanks TDE  Glad you like it. As I said there may be some skips\flaws as everything I wrote got scribbled over by my daughter so if any issues, just ask 

Paul

There's definitely more than one way to skin a cat! 

Nice job, Paul.  Thanks for sharing.

Art

Thanks Art, I like your tut as well. Next time I will look before offering a tut so I don't double up again. 

Cheers,

Paul

BTW, I am\have been trying different means to do textures, etc... for tuts, if there are any needed that you haven't seen, I can work on them, it's kind of fun to be honest.

[ClayOgre]

It almost could do for nylon as well, maybe.

[GimpGuy2000]

It almost could do for nylon as well, maybe.

Well, regardless, you gave me an idea, i'll see if I can find a way to nylon something 

Cheers,

Paul

[fencepost]

Thanks Art, I like your tut as well. Next time I will look before offering a tut so I don't double up again. 

No need to worry 'bout that.  The tutorial I posted wasn't mine, but a conversion of someone else's.  Besides, as I told you in the PM, the more tools people experience, the better artists they'll end up being.

[GimpGuy2000]

No need to worry 'bout that.  The tutorial I posted wasn't mine, but a conversion of someone else's.  Besides, as I told you in the PM, the more tools people experience, the better artists they'll end up being.

  Sounds feasible  and I agree with that point as well.

Thanks again,

Paul

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[fencepost]

I read through the tutorial and tried it without the pictures and this is what I got:



Because I'm familiar with the use of the curves tool to give things a "shiny" look, I was able to guess at the settings GimpGuy might have used.  Also, when he used the Lighting Effects filter, I'm not sure if he meant to use the values of "32" and "4" or if he really meant ".32" and ".4" under the different tabs.  I used the latter values because those seemed to work best for me, but he may have actually meant the numbers he posted.

At any rate, if my example gives you something you would like to play with, let me know and I can prepare the images and have a mod insert them into the tutorial.  It might take me a few days, simply because my home computer is on the fritz.