So very beautiful, OMG!

Pat - thank you as always.

A couple more before I give glass a rest for a while; new things to learn



... and Santa is early this year ...

OMG, I love your Santa. Well, I really like your designs and creations. I try to follow you and Pat but it's really impossible for me.
I post my try to create a Dome as you did. but...
After that I applied deformation and glassy texture.

OMG: As I have said before, your creativity is enviable!
Issabella: Your art work is beautiful and also very creative.

Hi ladies and gentlemen
Does this piece of art look like made up of glass and metal?

I think your choice of colors is very nice. To look like glass it needs to be more shiny. The leading and circle could look more like metal if it has carved or chiseled edges. OMG (oldmangrumpy) is the guru here of shiny glass and metal. PM him for his take on which of his tutorials would help you the most. I played with your result but could only make the colors better with contrast. Much of the glass effect has to be worked on from the beginning and I do not know how you made this. It looks very nice. I think you have made a very nice image.

Hi Pat
I am sorry that I didn't know about your comments and I came to know them today.

Comment: "To look like glass it needs to be more shiny."
I agree you with and I have been trying to make them pieces of glass, glass-like but I am still unable to do it.

Comment:"The leading and circle could look more like metal if it has carved or chiseled edges."

This was my first attempt and next time I would definitely pay attention to it next time.

Comment:"OMG (oldmangrumpy) is the guru here of shiny glass and metal."
I would like to make request to Mr. Oldmangrumpy for his guidance in this direction.

Comment:"I played with your result but could only make the colors better with contrast."
I myself don't know why the colours remain dull after trying different techniques.

Comment: "Much of the glass effect has to be worked on from the beginning and I do not know how you made this."
I used "Script-fu-->Effect Selection-->Glass Selection.

But today I followed another set of instructions which were for Photoshop and I think I got closer to the PS-like effect. Moreover it has less above flaws and it doesn't utilize "Glass Selection" script.

Rashid - having seen these last couple of posts above, the first thing I can say is that your 'flat' glass will not have the lustre/light reflection of frosted glass or particularly sculptured/shaped glass, to which I think Pat is referring.

I had a quick play with your posted image - to produce the following examples, each with different metal frames. The first retains your colours that I extracted and the second is a monochrome example using a number of textures/patterns I have put together( they can of course be coloured too!)





I am a little short on time right now but later today I will post some further comments/suggestions for you and probably point you to some tutorials and other threads.

Rashid - For shiny glass effects I have developed probably three approaches that I use frequently. All of them stem from a wonderful script called Bevel Reflect Logo (BRL) used against a selection, from which, using gradients or environmental maps (emaps), you can produce a huge variety of shaped outcomes.

Once I have created such outcomes I also use them to make make GIMP Brushes and GIMP Patterns (Textures) that make it easy for me to reproduce the results whenever I want.

If you look up my tutorials on glass at viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5148, you will get a better idea of what I do.

Issabella also has a good 'translucent glass' tutorial at viewtopic.php?f=23&t=9994&hilit=Translucent+Glass

I have also shared a number of glass patterns and brushes in the forum which you can find at:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13718&hilit=Sharing+glass+tiles%2C+patterns+%26amp%3B+backgrounds
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13873&p=188999&hilit=Sharing+Maori+Symbols#p188999
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=14733&p=203952&hilit=Glass+Brushes+Mason+Jars#p203952

You will always find excellent emaps at GIMP thread viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9677&hilit=Environment+Map+Sharing

As for metals I use four different approaches, all based on selections:

1. BRL with a metallic gradient
2. BRL with a metallic 'environmental map'
3. Post processing using GMIC>Contours>Local orientation of a previous BRL outcome created with wood gradient/emaps,
4. Scripts that produce a metallic effects from an alpha selection – do a search for metal in GIMP Scripts & Plugins and in GIMP Topics. Graechan has produced several of these.

The key thing is to try out these filters and experiment with the settings to get different results.

So I hope this helps and good luck with glass and metal.

While I was here, thought I would post some more glass, a boater in a glass dome; don't ask me why -

Oldmandgrumpy
THANKS.
Color enhancement is wonderful. But I think glass piences are like gems, they are not flat or convex. Surely BRL will give good relfection. I would go through all these tutorials.

Rashid - no problems, that is what this forum is about, helping others achieve!!

Here is a very quick example of what I referred to above, where I have used glass brushes and then exposed them to GMIC>Contours>Local orientation filters to produce an inlaid shiny metallic effect from the combination -



By the way, Amir wrecked the top order in a Test lead up game in Cairns last night!!

Mr. Oldmandgrumpy
Thanks.
Australian Cricket team struggled against the SA cricket team. It means that Australian Cricket team is not as strong as it was when former players Mark Waugh and Steve Waugh and Hussey Brothers were playing.
Yesterday in a Pakistani newspaper there was news about Australian Higher School students who have prepared a cheap alternative medicine for cancer.

One more attempt...

Rashid, I see the metal look and translucent coloured glass. Beautiful design too.

One more interesting thing is that last year I downloaded one script which only generates one Islamic design. Today while looking for guides script I came across it I installed it and utilized it. Wonderful script isn't it?

Rashid: That design is so much better. You improved so fast! It just takes knowing which procedures and filters to use. I have received so much help here from so many people I could never count them all. I love this forum.

Probably because of Rashid's comments, I have been checking out a number of traditional, geometric, Islamic patterns; really intersting stuff, so ...


... a mixture of 2 different colour translucent glasses and a new type of typical patterned OMG glass too -



and a domed option for Issabella

Hi Mr. Oldmangrumpy
Second Graphic is fantastic. I think it would have been much more superb if it had little less shadow on the upper right corner.

I also followed your glass vase tutorial. I think Guide making process would definitely be easier through Guides lab plugin. I also used gemclear.png for bevel reflect logo to some extent my design. Thanks for a very detailed tutorial.

Thank you so much OMG, Your dome is awesome with the right design and colours. I like it a lot.

This one is in Inkscape except Seasons Greetings text.