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Philippe lives in Chile – and that is on the southern hemisphere. Summer, flowers, the beach…. (In Bremen it’s winter, rain and wind.) So he sends us northerners, who are shivering in the cold, a floral greeting. Of course made from scratch after a visual visit in the garden.
This is Philippe’s last show for 2008. He torments us by making a summer holiday and has perhaps some extra work to do during Christmas.
But he’ll be back in January. (Rolf has his sound card problems sorted out and faces some time slot sorting problems. He will be here with a show soon.)
If you have a wish for a project for Philippe to do, post it in the forum or here in the comments.
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Thanks a lot and have a nice summer holiday (I hope you take a lot of pictures
) !
Great how you analyze the picture and use the symmetry to create a flower in gimp – I really love the approach.
Greetings from the cold hemisphere (snow this morning)
peterson.
Who?
Now that there are multiple people posting on the site it would be good to indicate who is writing the post. Can WordPress can do this automatically?
I am writing the blog posts for the videos. And I am not so sure how to do it.
WordPress should display the name, something is broken there.
This was a massive piece of work, Philippe. Except for the trick with the perspective tool (I did not expect such an effect), just a few ordinary tools and lots of patience to get at an astonishing image. Chapeau !
Oh, in English “petal” is also “petal”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petal)
Here’s a TOC:
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-078-floral-greetings-from-the-antipodes/
Episode 078: Floral Greetings from the Antipodes
00:18 Welcome
00:25 Examples of real flowers
03:20 Examine the features of the real flower we will be emulating
04:40 Use Polar Coordinate filter to deconstruct the flower
07:30 Make layers for the petal and shadow
10:15 Make an area to use for a petal
11:00 Draw some detail for the petal
13:00 Use the Perspective tool to give the petal a triangular shape
14:30 Make some more petals
16:00 Make the shadows
17:20 Use polar coordinates filter to map the petals onto a circle
18:10 Make more layers of petals and rotate them
21:20 Create the centre of the flower
22:50 Add some highlights and shadows to the petals using the dodge and burn tool
28:00 Make some layers for the centre detail
29:00 Draw the background detail in the centre
33:35 Create a brush to draw the detail in the centre
35:40 Create another brush for top detail
38:35 Draw a few extra details
39:40 Dodge and burn the centre to give it a 3D feel
41:25 Tweak the colours using curves, merging layers into groups
42:50 Add a suitable background
44:48 The End
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