Elements Grab-Bag (free)

[Hermit]

I posted this over in my mansion map thread, but figured I would put it here as well.

Interesting insider info on making elements.
Regarding: "Greytale: green, Victorian-style sofa" That sofa originally was a chair that I took a picture of in an antique store.
Greytale worked some photoshop magic by cutting and pasting bits of it back together to turn it into this cool sofa.
Original Chair = Attachment 122035 Turned into a sofa = Attachment 122036

So I thought I'd give this a go on a couple of the upholstered Bogie chairs. I actually enjoyed this and it was a fun challenge to stretch the chairs out. Bogie originally had multiple colors of these chairs so I tried to replicate that without chopping up and stretching each separate color. The result didn't match the colors perfectly, but I couldn't figure out how to get them closer to the original color choice. Any info or suggestions on how to do that would be awesome since I still don't know what all of my tools do in GIMP.

Thanks to Bogie for letting me do this and for creating the originals!

Let me know what you think.

[Kier]

Great stuff!

Truthfully I just mess around with anything in the color Tab, lol. Hue, saturation, exposure, all of it. And just go with what works. Also you can create a new layer and paint over the cushion part and switch the layer from normal, to screen, overlay, multiply, etc. And change the transparency. This can effect just the cushion. You can also, select the cushion with the lasso tool and then hit the color tab up as well.

I took the red cushion from above and duplicated the layer, then hit the flip tool to flip the top layer, then just erased the side with the heavy shadow, and combined the 2 layers, then hit it with hue I think, to create a different color. EDITED: I should have been a little more careful as I erased part of the drop shadow. I probably should have just cut in half then combined, would have been more clean.

Edited: So it was bothering me, lol. I corrected it.


EDITED: You so should not have got me started, lol. You can create new layers then render checkboards, cells, and make patterns on it.




EDITED: Last 1 Promise. I might be trippin' after this one.

[Hermit]

That is rad! Thanks Kier SO MANY NEW IDEAS lol.

I had messed with some of the color tab, but not all of it. I'll have to really poke around in there. I hadn't even thought of making a new layer and changing the layer type and opacity (although, Tiana told me to do that with my map, I didn't think of it here). And now that you've done the rendering ones and shown them here, I think I might just stay up all night and play around with that method haha. Thank you again!

[Kier]

Yeah, it can get addictive. I just found 20 variants of the same pillow in a lost folder buried in my computer. And that was just 1 position, lol.

But its fun to mess around with if nothing else.

[Bogie]

Great job Kier & Hermit, those couches are fantastic.

[Hermit]

Thanks Bogie!

[Bogie]

Kier & Hermit did such a great job turning chairs into couches, I had to give it a try.
Of course I cheated a little, they turned chairs into couches, I turned a small couch into a larger couch.

Original Attachment 122210 New version Attachment 122211

[Hermit]

Very nice! That looks really good I like the way you meshed the wood backing together.

[Hermit]

Working on some rooms in my mansion map that needed display cases and jewelry so I PNG'd these Pixabay stock photos (free-use, commercial/non-commercial), then I decided to make some out of these images of coins for use as treasure (also Pixabay). As before with stock photos, the original creator is named in the file. The leather pouch with coins was already a PNG, I just edited out other parts of the image to isolate it. Hope these are useful.

[Tiana]

All super useful!