![]() ![]() Go to Filters > Artistic > Softglow and adjust the sliders to your liking. Play around with the amplitude, phase, and wavelength sliders until you're happy with the result (as you can see below, I set the amplitude to 70, phase to 145, and wavelength to 45).īefore we finish, we want to make the ripple effect stand out a bit more. Make sure that the Smear radio button is selected. Move the Whirl angle slider all the way to the right (the number will be 720), the Pinch amount slider about three-quarters to the left (around -0.5) and leave the radius at 1.00. Now, click on Filters > Distorts > Whirl and Pinch. You should have an image that looks sort of like this: The the swirl won't be perfectly uniform, unless you draw much better than I do!Ĭlick on Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set both values to 40, then click OK. I drew mine from top left to bottom right, and as you can see, the top left corner is darker.Ĭhange the foreground to white, then draw a swirl in the middle of your image using the brush tool. With the Blend tool, draw a line from the top to bottom, bottom to top, or from corner to corner. My favorite wallpaper color is blue so I used two different shades of blue.Ĭlick on the Blend tool in the Toolbox and verify that the Gradient is set to FG to BG and the Shape set to Linear. I used 1600 x 1200, but you can use bigger if you need it.ĭecide on a color and then choose two shades of that color so we can put in a bit of a gradient. Open a new image ( File > New) in the size you want. We've done backgrounds before, but we will use GIMP this time to create a swirled background.
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