GIMP pen tooling

[maddog]

I need someone to tell me how to pen tool effectively.

[Raditz]

don't think there is a pen tool in gimp?

[maddog]

oops i ment path tool, like how they create the glowing effects

[Raditz]

ah..well i don't know what you mean by glowing.But if you could show an example i could help i think.Because i don't think paths tool does glowing effects :?:

[-bH.munky]

I dunno if you can do this in GIMP but in PS, you make the line you want to be glowin or w/e. Then right click on it an click stroke.

[maddog]

hmm.... i know someone who has the effect, http://signaturebar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9127

Look at his sig not the one he made i want to make lines like that.

[-bH.munky]

Yeah for those lines ya gotta stroke the pen-tooled line.

[maddog]

dam it i want to do stuff like that one GIMP so bad

[Raditz]

ok the effect won't be exactly the same.But use the paths tool and make a few lines then go and click stroke path,a window will pop up and say how big you want the line.Put it to 1,and see if you like it.The result will be similar to this

http://www.signaturebar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8706

and like some of the lines in my signature.Hope this helped :D

[maddog]

not really the effect i was looking for but i messed around a bit with some filters and found something thats close. just used your ok the effect won't be exactly the same.But use the paths tool and make a few lines then go and click stroke path,a window will pop up and say how big you want the line.Put it to 1,and see if you like it. and then added a glowing effect form alpha logo-> glowing hot, then i just removed the black background it created and got a close to the pen tooling like PS.

[Raditz]

very nice idea buddy :o i'm gonna try it now

[maddog]

Does anyone know how to fade the lines or where i can find in the menu in the tut, when he creates the blue line near the bottom.

http://gfxfreaks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1865

[lokifeyson]

select your brush tool, then go to the brush pallete (the menu where you choose your brushes) and its under shape dynamics :)

fade is cool, but be aware that you have to set it up for the distance you want, I usually just use pen pressure, it works like fade but you don't have to set the distance.

but! it will fade at both ends (if you don't want it 2 you can then just erase the side you didn't want to fade) and can take a little to get used 2, because of the fade (you'll see if you try it) :D

[maddog]

Thanks loki i will try this when i have time. Pen pressure? how do you do that in GIMP

[lokifeyson]

lol, i have no clue! :lol:

noobie might know, she used to use gimp :)

[maddog]

This is what i got when i tried and use the glowing line effect on GIMP

http://www.signaturebar.com/uploads/images/29926.png

[VoidWalker]

That's pretty nice. Here is what I did in mine after alpha logo> glowing hot,
I've deleted the layer where I have my stroke and then duplicated the glow and Gaussian blurred the duplicate.

And here is what I did for this:

Thanks loki i will try this when i have time. Pen pressure? how do you do that in GIMP

First go to the paintbrush tool, then click fade out, if your stroke is long, just adjust the length.
Second, make your path design and then click the stroke path, when that window appears, select the Stroke with a paint tool then be sure you've selected the paintbrush tool, and there you go. Tell me if its corrected.

Here is what I've come out:

http://www.signaturebar.com/uploads/images/30555.png