2/29/2024 0 Comments Wax seal ringThen the eagle should appear in the desired size. GIMP asks you what size the eagle shall be. Move the eagle image into your open image. There is Germanys federal eagle available on wikipdeia commons here as vector graphics: Now we’re getting a step futher to the engraved eagle. In the Bump-Map tab use the depth channel set the maximum height to 0.05.Īfter clicking OK the wax looks pretty cool already ) Move the little blue dot in the preview window to the top left of the wax area. Filter / Light & Shadow / Lightning Effects Make the channel invisible now (click the eye icon next to the channel in the channels dialog) So a full black fill becomes a 50% black which means a middle gray) Press CTRL+, to fill the selection with black (actually it is a gray tone, because we’ve told the channel to be 50% transparent when creating it. Press D to reset to base colors (black/white). Drag a circle inside the wax on the channel. Choose the Elliptical/Circle Selection tool Now we get to the part of the pressed ring. ![]() This slight coloring will make the wax itself be a little more anomalous. Edit / Fill FG color (or just press CTRL+, on your keyborad) Choose #bababa as new foreground color. Click the channel we’re working to activate it. With the selection active change back to the channels dialog. This gives us a very smooth fading.Ĭhange to the layers dialog for a second and choose “Selection from Alpha” again from the context menu of the wax layer. Repeat the step using CTRL+SHIFT+F with 6px, 3px and finally 1px. Use the Gaussian Blur filter to change the hard crossing from black/white to some gray tones which represent smooth roundings. Lets start with the outer roundings/depth. The purpose of a channel in this kind of picture manipulation is to show a layer what specific roundings the object (in our case the wax drop) shall receive using the Lighning effects filter later on. open up the Channels dialog: Windows / Dockable Dialogs / ChannelsĬlick “Initialize from Selection”. click the eye symbol to make the wax disappear temorarily (we enable it again at a later time). right click the mouse button on the layers dialog of the wax layer: choose “Selection from Alpha”. ![]() To realize such complex roundings we gonna use a depth channel (this shows our wax drop how “deep” the roundings should be on a specific place). Have a short look at the result image to see what i mean. The difficult part on this is that we need a soft rounding on the outer side of the wax, while we need a harder one inside which represents the mark/cast of the seal ring. The next few steps show the realisation of the glossyness of the wax. Now we’re finished with the base form of the wax. Set the channel to Alpha and move the points to the center as shown in the image below. Next we want to get rid of the semi transparent parts of the “wax drop”. paint an area like shown in the picture below using the brush tool (use a soft 19px-brush and scale it to 5) Set the foreground color to #777777 (it is a middle gray tone) We’re starting with the base form of the wax drop. This tutorial shows how to create such a wax seal in GIMP! Have fun ) Tutorial details So the letter was secured from spys from now on - because any opening would have breached the original letter. ![]() This is a hot wax drop on the opening of the envelope - then a seal ring containing the unique emblem of the empire was pressed on the wax to harden the wax. Motivation You maybe know this: In the very past important letters have been sealed using a so called wax seal.
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