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CHAPTER 4 DRAWING 153 Figure 4-33 shows the effect of the shadow. The tree is no longer flat now it s a three-dee tree! Figure 4-33. The completed tree Making a Box Using Perspective Transformation It s nice to have a tree. But wouldn t it be helpful to have a wooden planter box so you could carry the tree around or take it inside? Make a new image to build your box. You can put the tree and the box together later. As with the tree, it s best to start with a blank image with a white background, and then make new transparent layers for each new piece you add. You ll want separate layers for each of the four sides of the box, so start with a layer called box front for the front face. A box has a rectangular front. So make a selection using the Rectangle Select tool. You can fill that rectangle with a woodgrain pattern. GIMP offers several woodgrain patterns to choose from. Some of them are better suited to a wooden box than others: the ones that look like wood paneling or a parquet floor look somewhat strange if you try to make a box out of them. Just try lots of patterns until you find one you like. You can keep the Patterns dialog up while you choose a pattern, fill inside the image with Edit . Fill with Pattern or Bucket Fill, and then choose another pattern. (If you undo between each step, you won t fill up your Undo stack with all the patterns you tried.)
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