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Making Wrinkles on GIMP 2?

Tim Bulldog
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Join date: 26 Oct 2006
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10-19-2007 07:19
I've been looking for a tutorial, and no luck, I've also been searching for Brush Sets, but yet again, no luck. Does anyone have any tutorials on this?

Thanks, Tim.
Oryx Tempel
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Join date: 8 Nov 2006
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10-19-2007 09:32
In the layers box, add a new layer. Under 'Layers Mode:' select 'Overlay.' Move this layer to the top of your stack, so that it is over all your other layers.

Back in the Gimp box, go to your color chooser. Make a gray color with the following values:
H:0 S:0 V:50 R:128 G:128 B:128 and use the paint bucket to fill the entire layer with this gray. Note that NOTHING WILL CHANGE on your screen, but the little picture of that overlay layer in the Layers box will now look gray.

Use the burn tool to create folds, and the dodge tool to create highlights on your cloth, then use the smudge tool to blend the burns and dodges into the rest of the overlay.
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Mercedes Benedek
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Join date: 29 Nov 2006
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New to gimp
10-20-2007 06:13
ty for telling me how to make the folds now can you tell me where the burn and dodge tools are i cant seem to find them
Peggy Paperdoll
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Join date: 15 Apr 2006
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10-20-2007 10:15
The dodge/burn tool is in the main GIMP panel on my setup. Mouse over the tools to find it is the easiest way. You can also right click the layer (make it active by highlighting it in "Layers";) and finding it in the menu that pops up.
Oryx Tempel
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10-23-2007 11:02
Dodge and burn is in the Gimp window screen with tools; look first for the "smudge" tool which looks like a pointing finger or hand. Burn and Dodge is one tool, right next to Smudge. It should be the very last tool in the tool box (at least it is for the version of Gimp that I have, which is 2.2.) It look like a black knob, I guess. You will have to choose either Dodge or Burn under type. Remember that Dodge makes things LIGHTER, while Burn makes things DARKER (I think of burning my toast!)

You'll want to use 100% opacity, at least to start playing with it, and 100% exposure. Try burning just the highlights first.

When we talk about shadows/midtones/highlights, we're talking about the numerical value for each color. If black has a value of 0 and white has a value of 255, then think of shadows as being each color from 0 to 85, midtones as being from 85 to 170, and highlights as being from 170 to 255.

There is a great tutorial in volume number 4 of SecondStyle Magazine (www.secondstyle.com) that explains a few more details.
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Lee Ponzu
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
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10-23-2007 12:11
I would like to add that it takes a good eye to make wrinkles and folds. That is, you need to look carefully at real wrinkles and folds in clothing or in photographs, and see the shape of the shading and highlights.

When I do it, I end up with clothes that have dark and light stripes on them. They never look like wrinkles. But then, I can't draw with a pencil, either 8-) 8-)