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368 CHAPTER 9 ADVANCED DRAWING You can make spheres with different textures such as glassy, metallic, or leathery: vary the feathering of the selections you fill, and then add textures or reflected objects, perhaps warped with one or more of the Map plug-ins discussed in Chapter 7. You can add color to the shadow, or to the highlighted areas, to emphasize color being reflected from other parts of your artwork. Try different approaches! The more you experiment with light and shadow, the better your art will look. Making Brushes, Patterns, and Gradients The GIMP has a great collection of brushes, gradients, and patterns. But sometimes you need something really specific. How do you make your own? Making Brushes In Chapter 4, you learned how to create parametric brushes. But what if you want to create a brush of a different type? Simple Image Brushes Any image can become a brush. But good brushes will usually be small and have transparent backgrounds. Hey that describes Wilber! How would you go about making Wilber (Figure 9-36) into a GIMP brush? Figure 9-36. Wilber, the GIMP mascot Making an image into a brush is easy just save it in the right place using the right image type (Figure 9-37). The right place is the folder check-marked Writable in Preferences . Folders . Brushes. Tip If you have trouble seeing your GIMP profile folder in the Save as dialog, try clicking on Browse for other folders; then right-click in the file list and select Show Hidden Files.
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