Make a 3D Bowl in GIMP [PDF]

bkirkhuff · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 9

I just tries this in marble :jumpclap

Odinbc · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:48 pm **(#42)**

Very nice bkirkhuff, we need some munchies in the bowl!

MarFisk · **Joined:** Feb 28, 2014 **Posts:** 137

Thank you for this. I love learning new techniques in Gimp.

One comment. I didn't see anyone else having this trouble so it may have to do with my settings, but step 7.Select > None ended up with the bottom sphere and a top white because it mapped my whole image. By using the path to reset the selection (thank you for that) and ignoring step 7, it came out exactly as you'd shown.

Cheers,
Margaret

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:05 pm **(#44)**

MarFisk wrote:

Thank you for this. I love learning new techniques in Gimp.

One comment. I didn't see anyone else having this trouble so it may have to do with my settings, but step 7.Select > None ended up with the bottom sphere and a top white because it mapped my whole image. By using the path to reset the selection (thank you for that) and ignoring step 7, it came out exactly as you'd shown.

Cheers,
Margaret

I think you may have left out select "Transparent Background" in the "Map to Object" dialog.

Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:45 am **(#45)**

Thank you Oregonian, here is my attempt.
Good results of all of you and original ways. :paint

MarFisk · **Joined:** Feb 28, 2014 **Posts:** 137

Wallace wrote:

MarFisk wrote:

Thank you for this. I love learning new techniques in Gimp.

One comment. I didn't see anyone else having this trouble so it may have to do with my settings, but step 7.Select > None ended up with the bottom sphere and a top white because it mapped my whole image. By using the path to reset the selection (thank you for that) and ignoring step 7, it came out exactly as you'd shown.

Cheers,
Margaret

I think you may have left out select "Transparent Background" in the "Map to Object" dialog.

Thanks for the reply. It did the transparent background, but didn't convert the white to it. I played with it a bit and got it to work because using the selection gave me half a bowl once it rotated

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A vague memory tells me I may have forgotten the white in the first round and so used the bucket to fill it to white because I didn't understand the purpose. In which case, the "Transparent Background" might not have recognized the white as background. Honestly, there are so many ways to trip myself up

.

A question though... Why not start with a transparent background?

And because I loved how it turned out, I made my mother a unique birthday card with the bowl. Thanks for making her day

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Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:28 am **(#47)**

MarFisk wrote:

A question though... Why not start with a transparent background?

Yes you could have started it that way. I guess that's just the way this tutorial was written.

MarFisk · **Joined:** Feb 28, 2014 **Posts:** 137

Wallace wrote:

MarFisk wrote:

A question though... Why not start with a transparent background?

Yes you could have started it that way. I guess that's just the way this tutorial was written.

Cool. Just trying to figure out if there was a reason not to. Preference is a perfectly good reason.

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:20 am **(#49)**

MarFisk wrote:

Cool. Just trying to figure out if there was a reason not to. Preference is a perfectly good reason.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:46 pm **(#50)**

That was fun!
3D bowl is so cool.
Mine is a bowl with Vietnamese Buddhist chant on it.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very cool

kakol20 · **Joined:** Jun 14, 2014 **Posts:** 9

Simple, yet effective.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:26 pm **(#53)**

I have been Gimping now for nearly 6 months, so I went back and did a tut that people were talking about then. I love timber objects (as well as sunsets Dinasset!!) so I made some thick wooden bowls ...

EDIT ... yes, I realise the wood grain on the bowl top does not well match the grain of the bowl sides; but I am working on that

gbarkovalev · **Joined:** Jan 02, 2014 **Posts:** 137

I'm waiting for your lesson

CT-Gimper101 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:02 pm **(#55)**

Nice 3D Bowl in Gimp that looks cool :clap

. and they say gimp is not like PhotoShop.

It's Free not like PS. Love GIMP :heart

CT-Gimper101

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:41 pm **(#56)**

Thanks for pleasant comments CT-Gimper101.

Definitely a learning exercise and WIP, but I am getting the hang of this 3D stuff progressively ... added a better shaped rim in attempts to match the grain ... but not satisfied yet ...

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:49 pm **(#57)**

This is becoming my version of the Super Bowl ( :roll:

) - still lots to learn and lots of WIP to get better rims on those mapped sphere bowls ...

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:51 am **(#58)**

I hope others are utilising this tut as it provides some great insight to the use of 'map object' and the outcomes that can be produced. I made a set of bowels ...

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

gbarkovalev wrote:

I'm waiting for your lesson

Go back to post #1 and follow the tutorial
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7039

skritnaea · **Joined:** Jun 08, 2015 **Posts:** 36