Camouflage by MJ_Spinner

1. Open Gimp

2. Click File --> Create --> Patterns --> Camouflage...

3. Choose the colors that you want to use,then click ok
*Adjust granularity if desired



FINAL PRODUCT

Plaid by MJ_Spinner

1. Open Gimp

2. Click File --> New

3. Choose any size image: 512x512 is used in this
example

4. Click advanced options (plus sign), make sure Background is selected in the Fill With option... ** Default is white** then click ok
 

   


5. Click the paint brush in the Tools box (quick key: P). Choose Brush: Circle 19 at scale 2.72 (these settings are being used in this example)

6. Make some blobs (as many as you want and in whichever colors you want)

7. Click Colors --> Info --> Smooth Palette...then ok
Width, height, and search depth options can be changed as desired. **In this example height and width are both 256**

8. Right click on the layer in the Layers box then click duplicate layer.

9. **Make sure layer named background copy is highlighted** then click Layer at the top of the window


10. Click Transform --> Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise

11. Change opacity to 50.0 (Mode in this example is Normal)
**Opacity and Mode can be adjusted as desired**

*****Optional: Image can be merged down*****

FINAL PRODUCT

Snake Skin by bi_bi_love

You can also play with the tools in the "Colors" menu before during and after to get the colour you want.

As you can see a lot of it is "to taste" the only real key is using Filters-Distort-Mosaic.
Enjoy

Patterns in GIMP by bi_bi_love

1st Step make up your pattern, I made a pink tartan as this will lead into my next tutorial

2nd as with any work you are doing, I suggest you save your original as a GIMP (.xcf) file to preserve layers etc.

3rd resize your pattern appropriately - I tend to work with 1024x1024 clothes files, so I chose a multiple of this. As it's for a skirt pattern I didn't make it too small.

4th save as a pattern file in your GIMP folder - mine (in W7) is "C:\Users\Admin\.gimp-2.6\patterns"

5th you get the option to put a name to your pattern

Enter the name and click save.

Once saved you need to reboot GIMP to make the pattern available to you

Brushed cotton/velvet effect by bi_bi_love

Step 1... open your mesh, template or wherever you usually start from. I have some basic templates (some thanks to Hunter).

Step 2 ... I use the Alpha to selection tool in the layers toolbar (you can call the toolbar up by pressing F7). The way my templates are set up this will select the filled area on the highlighted layer.

Step 3 ... Select the base colour you want (no, the outfit on the go is not green).
Then use the bucket fill tool to fill the selection.

Step 4 ... In the 'Filters' menu, select 'Noise' then 'RGB Noise ...'

This brings up a separate box to adjust the settings of the noise

Just leaving the settings at the default values works nicely, but experiment with the settings and view in the preview window, when happy click okay and....

Voila