Create Pattern - GIMP Beginners' Guide ep112 Video Lecture | A GIMP Guide for Beginners - Design Softwares

hi after the long and exhausting
tutorials about gradients here comes
another long one about creating patterns
and as you can see here we don't have
any button to create a pattern so we're
going to have to do that in a little bit
different way we have the ability to
refresh we have the ability to open
pattern as an image which will open the
active pattern as an image and here I
have the ability to delete them but you
probably don't because we don't have the
ability by default to delete our brushes
gradients parents palettes that come
with GIMP but i'll show you right now
how you can do that though i don't
recommend it hearing preferences in
folders for example parents i have two
paths of where my files are stored so by
default only this one was active and if
i activate the other one click ok and
i'll have to restart game and then i'll
have the ability to delete my parents
here i cannot edit them but for example
with gradients if you do that with
gradients here the same thing you will
be able to delete or edit the gradients
that come with gimp but i do not
recommend that because ingredients i
show you how easily you can make changes
to a pattern to a gradient I'm sorry and
you cannot revert that so just don't do
that leave these parents key unless of
course you don't need them in you want
just to get rid of them or some of them
you can use that option so let's get
back to parents here in the configure
this tab options menu nothing different
here except the parents menu we have the
ability to refresh delete right now
because I have that option preference is
selected I can delete this pattern that
comes with GIMP I can open pattern as an
image
and copy pattern location which will
copy the location of this file on your
clipboard and in text editor or even in
gimp text to hear you can make a window
control V or paste that and you see
where your files are being stored you're
going to need that to be able to save
that files in this folder because if you
don't say them in the correct folder
they will not you will not be able to
load here so let's create a new file
here right now select the bucket fill
tool pattern few select this pattern you
see this pattern that comes with GIMP
how that works and now I'll show you a
technique in a little trick how you can
create a pattern from an image so if you
go outside and shoot some image of grass
for example let's say that this is grass
right now grab your crop tool and just
drop this area here like that and I'm
going to go here file save as
find my patterns here I've added my
folder you have to find it here from
browse for other folders and here I'll
coldest let's say test five dot pad
click Save hero called game test five
click Save again now i'm going to
refresh here and this pattern appears
here test five let's undo some steps
here select the game the bucket fill
tool pattern fill and select this test 5
and do this and now if we zoom in you'll
see what's happening here this is not
seamless pattern so we have this this is
not a smooth transition as you can see
so this was the wrong way to do that let
me show you the right way let's again
film with this pattern from GIMP let's
again crop
and now we have cropped this I'm going
to duplicate the image here i'm going to
select one on the filters map make
seamless now you see how this may change
to our pattern and i'm going to control
Z to undo that you see the difference
basically it's blending different parts
of the images together so it can make
this parent seamless but the filter does
not work very well you see here that we
have a lot of blurriness and it gets
really bad quality that's why i'm going
to i made this duplicate here and i'm
going to select my race 2 i'm going to
add an alpha channel here and now i just
select first a fuzzy brush make it
bigger and i'm just going to erase some
of the modification that this filter did
you see here in the image only raising
some parts and i'm leaving only the
outside parts using fuzzy brush
so let's now flatten this image go ahead
and save it as test six
let's close this let's refresh here
let's make a new image here bucket fill
tool pattern fill let's select our test
six and fill this so you see now that we
don't have that we have smooth
transition this is a seamless pattern so
you can use this with your images like I
said you can go outside shoot something
and then use this technique to create a
pattern from an image some grass perhaps
some wall on macro mode you'll get some
really nice cracks like this one so this
is one way you can create patterns from
an image now you can create them from
scratch but here I don't have the time
maybe in the future you know more
advanced tutorial I'll show you how you
can create some more advanced patterns
with more unique and sophisticated
graphics but let's now just create one
really simple one make a new here let's
select 100 by a hundred pixels and I
should have said this on transparency
just delete this background and I have
my transparency now
and here I'll select my brush tool
select the hard edge brush and then I'll
drag some guys here in the center of the
image horizontal and we'll just use my
mouse to get the other one and now with
the brush tool I'll make it smaller I'll
hold down the shift key and I'll click
here and I'll get this line also hold
down the ctrl key to restrain this in an
angle you see how it's jumping I think
it's 15 degrees and just click here and
I'll do it again then I'll do the same
thing with the other line here first
click then hold down the shift key and
ctrl key
let's select the move tool with them
close that remove these guides and then
save as and here let's call this simple
that pat shave it's called simple
because it's really simple let's closed
all new make a new from a template here
select the bucket fill tool or maybe
next let's do this with a clone tool
here this time and the source pattern
and refresh here to get this simple
pattern that we made this is the one
make the brush bigger and you see what's
happening here you can paint this
pattern so that's basically it for this
video about creating patterns and only
your creativity can stop here from
creating some really nice and cool
graphics so take advantage of this tool
in game bye for now