

This gives us a perfect selection of the layer.Īctivate the parchement layer. You can also do small very thin ones in the middle. Cut many small cranks into the parchment. Use the free selection tool for this again. The next step is to create some more cuts into the parchment. Cut that part or just delete it using DEL (or CTRL+K in GIMP 2.2).ĭeactivate the current selection by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+A or Selection / None In the tabs of the filter enter these valuesĪfter that choose the “Free selection”-tool. Now apply Filter / Light and Shadow / Lighting Effect. In the channels tab deactivate the eye-symbol to make it invisible.Ĭhange to the layers-tab and click the brown layer to make it active. Create a new channel there, name it “knittern” or “crinkle” which is the english word for this.Ĭlick the just created channel to make it active.Īpply Filter / Render / Plastic Noise. Open the channels tab (Dialogs / Channels). Now, we’re going to bring some depth into play. The noise-effect should be still very little visible.


Go to Filter / Noise / RGB Noise and use these values as input: Open a new file: 400×500 px and set the background color to black.Ĭreate a new transparent layer, fill it with #bc8b46. You can than add an old map, a photo or just plain text to it! Tutorial details Motivation This tutorial is a bit aimed on fantasy-fans! I will show you how to generate an old parchment paper.
