Re: [Gimp-user] LED white christmas lights effect

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley gmail com>]

Perhaps some LED tape or rope, not specifically badged as Xmas.
IKEA do it, but the bare tape is pretty much generic now.

Reminds me I must do something with a spool of it I have hanging around!

Adrian Midgley   http://defoam.net/  http://defoam.net/photo.defoam.net/

On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 at 20:30, Akkana Peck <akkana shallowsky com> wrote:
> dboland9 via gimp-user-list writes:
> > I plan to take some pictures of some Christmas poinsettias with pine branches around the pot and think 
> > the picture would be better if there were white (warm) LED lights in the picture. The problem is that the 
> > string needs to be fairly short, and stores have sold out all Christmas lights. So, my next option is to 
> > create them in GIMP. Anyone done this and can you offer a genera procedure?
>
> I'm sure there are people better at this than I am, but I had a
> similar problem when I was making
> https://shallowsky.com/images/cards/squirrelcard.jpg
> and it was quite a few years ago, but as I recall, the steps were:
>
> - Get a photo of a single light. Erase the background so the image
>   has just the light.
> - Add a fuzzy circle in a color that matches the light
>   (new layer, ellipse select, feather edges, fill, then fiddle
>   with the layer transparency)
> - Add a white speck in the middle where the light filament should
>   be if the light in the photo wasn't on
> - Flatten this light image and make several copies of it at the
>   right size to paste into your image
> - Use the Hue slider in Colors->Hue-Saturation to change the
>   copies to other colors.
> - Paste copies of lights of different colors around the base image,
>   and rotate each one semi-randomly.
>
> Then you need the wire connecting them. I don't know how to draw a
> realistic looking multi-stranded electrical wire, but you can make a
> strangely realistic looking string by playing with settings in the
> Smudge tool: try starting with a smudge rate of 100% and a
> hard-edged brush. It doesn't look like a real electrical cord, but
> at least it looks like a three-dimensional string instead of a line
> someone drew in a graphics app.
>
> Good luck, have fun!
>
>         ...Akkana
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