Month: March 2009
Aquarelle with Gimp
Hey! The last two days i try out to get a watercolor painting look from original photos.
Ok, here my experiences:
And today, the ones with better technique:
and the cool wilber…..
It is not overpainted, only filtered by five Layers:
COLORS !
Wow !
Today was a good day for inspiration! I play around only with colors and this is really cool.
No curves, no pixel nothing….only palettes, tables, shemes….
First the Gimp. You can create your own palettes here or extract it from a foto. Then you can use this in Inkscape too.
After that, i was searching in the web and find some cool sites. I really like the color sheme designer:
Well they are many more online tools in the web, but i like this one. 🙂 You can ask Google about “color sheme” by yourself…
Next i found a color community ! What is that?
You can create you own palettes and download other ones as Gimp palette (.gpl) or many other files …cool!
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-palettes.html
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_scheme
Edit: a big resource site for colors, plaettes and gradients is http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/
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