SCANLINES
RED TEXT FOR PHOTOSHOP & BLUE TEXT FOR GIMP
See those pale little lnes? Those are scanlines. They add a little spoof to an image!
First of all, we have to make a pattern. Open a new 4x4 image and zoom in as far as possible. Now, draw one of the following patterns into your image:
Open a new 4x4 image (transparent background) and zoom in to 800. Take the pencil tool and make one of the images below...
Got one? Okay, now go to Edit>Define Pattern and name it whatever you like. Now go to your image. I'm using this spiffy new siggie I made...
Now, save your image as whatever.pat on your desktop. Now minimize gimp, and go find the Gimp folder in your harddrive. I go to Program Files>Gimp>Share>Gimp>2.0>Patterns. Move your whatever.pat into this folder. Now go back to your image that you want to fill with this pattern. I'm using this spiffy new siggie I made...
Now select all on the layer you want to fill. In this case, I'm doing it under the text layer. Go to Edit>Fill and pick pattern and the pattern you made:
You may have to restart GIMP for your pattern to appear. But now you may go to the layer you want to fill, select the pattern tool and your new pattern and go to Edit>Fill with Pattern.
Okay, now it looks like you killed the image. Not to worry, play with the blending options (the dropdown menu under the 'Layers' tab in the layers dialog box) and pick one that you like. I chose soft light for this:
There you have it! Your very own pretty little... image... yeah...
