Picture grid on Globe in GIMP

[WDW Scrap Princess]

Wonderful!

[Bev Cavera]

Help I am not doing something correct?? I have the Globe & all the pic
> correct.I made a reflection globe.I have dark blue paper on level 1 ,
> light blue paper next, the Globe on 0 level and reflection above the
> globe.I cannot fade the reflection globe. It either totally disappears as
> I try to fade it or the entire layer goes black & white. I did download
> Grants tools to us for my PSE 8. Any ideas? My hair is turning grayer by the hour...as I try to figure this out! Bev Cavera
> MouseScrappers.com

[ILuvCrush]

Originally Posted by Bev Cavera

Help I am not doing something correct?? I have the Globe & all the pic
> correct.I made a reflection globe.I have dark blue paper on level 1 ,
> light blue paper next, the Globe on 0 level and reflection above the
> globe.I cannot fade the reflection globe. It either totally disappears as
> I try to fade it or the entire layer goes black & white. I did download
> Grants tools to us for my PSE 8. Any ideas? My hair is turning grayer by the hour...as I try to figure this out! Bev Cavera
> MouseScrappers.com

did you get it figured out yet Bev??? I don't know anything about PSE8 but I know Roxana can probably help you and a few of the other girls too. hopefully this 'bump' will get a little notice

[luv2scrapmm]

Originally Posted by Bev Cavera

Help I am not doing something correct?? I have the Globe & all the pic
> correct.I made a reflection globe.I have dark blue paper on level 1 ,
> light blue paper next, the Globe on 0 level and reflection above the
> globe.I cannot fade the reflection globe. It either totally disappears as
> I try to fade it or the entire layer goes black & white. I did download
> Grants tools to us for my PSE 8. Any ideas? My hair is turning grayer by the hour...as I try to figure this out! Bev Cavera
> MouseScrappers.com

Here's another little bump Bev! I have to admit I created my globe and then inported it into my other software to work on a reflection. Still not 100% happy with the effect but it is a work in progress . If I get some time to play today maybe I'll see if I can figure out PSE8 a lttle more.

[roxana]

Originally Posted by Bev Cavera

Help I am not doing something correct?? I have the Globe & all the pic
> correct.I made a reflection globe.I have dark blue paper on level 1 ,
> light blue paper next, the Globe on 0 level and reflection above the
> globe.I cannot fade the reflection globe. It either totally disappears as
> I try to fade it or the entire layer goes black & white. I did download
> Grants tools to us for my PSE 8. Any ideas? My hair is turning grayer by the hour...as I try to figure this out! Bev Cavera
> MouseScrappers.com

I´m sorry Bev but I haven´t try with the reflection yet, I was so dissapointed with the appearance of my globe that didn´t want to try anything else until I get a globe I like. I thought the reflection thing was only something to play with the opacity and grunge eraser to smooth the borders, so I don´t understand why it disappears or turns b/W. Yesterday I was supposed to be in a Photoshop hour were you can ask whatever you want, but I got the flu and was feeling so bad that I missed the PS hour( I was going to ask about the globe). Maybe if you can´t solve the problem you can check next week PS hour and ask Lauren(the host) she is a PS expert. If you are interested I can post the links to it, it was Lynette(Mama-si) who introduce me to that forum.

[mae5731]

Going to try this evening using the pse8 instructions. I have version 7, hopefully the steps are the same. Thank you for posting this!

[MJAJmom]

Wow, I am so thrilled to make a globe. What a neat tool! I followed the tutorial that was posted, loaded the layers mask, and played around with it. It took quite a while, including a little bit of frustration, but I finally got it. Thanks for all the helpful hints!! I now have a fabulous cover page!!

[MJAJmom]

After spending the day trying to make a globe, I can add a few helpful hints from what I learned today....

- I made the 7x7 rectangular photo boxes to cover the entire 12x12 page and filled all of them with photos
- I used a circle cookie cutter with a fixed size of 11.5 x 11.5inches to cut out the globe after it was spherized
- I have PSE7 so I downloaded the Grants Tools for PSE6 (there is no version for PSE7, just one for 6 and 8)
- For fading the reflection image, once you've got linear gradiant selected and black foreground color selected, click from the middle of the globe, drag toward the outer edge and click again. It just draws a line from the 2 clicks and fades from the middle to the edge. It will erase the other half of the globe. I kept trying to click from the edge to the middle. Remember to start in the middle first.
- then you can reduce opacity on the reflection to make it even lighter.

I followed the PSE8 instruction for the globe and thought they were superbly written and very detailed. Thank you for a great tutorial and sharing such a cool image with us!!!

[roxana]

Originally Posted by MJAJmom

After spending the day trying to make a globe, I can add a few helpful hints from what I learned today....

- I made the 7x7 rectangular photo boxes to cover the entire 12x12 page and filled all of them with photos
- I used a circle cookie cutter with a fixed size of 11.5 x 11.5inches to cut out the globe after it was spherized
- I have PSE7 so I downloaded the Grants Tools for PSE6 (there is no version for PSE7, just one for 6 and 8)
- For fading the reflection image, once you've got linear gradiant selected and black foreground color selected, click from the middle of the globe, drag toward the outer edge and click again. It just draws a line from the 2 clicks and fades from the middle to the edge. It will erase the other half of the globe. I kept trying to click from the edge to the middle. Remember to start in the middle first.
- then you can reduce opacity on the reflection to make it even lighter.

I followed the PSE8 instruction for the globe and thought they were superbly written and very detailed. Thank you for a great tutorial and sharing such a cool image with us!!!

How did you spherized, using the 3D-function or using the filter function? I´ve tried 5x5,6x6 and 7x7 and all the globes I get are the same not matter how many squares.

[luv2scrapmm]

Originally Posted by MJAJmom

Wow, I am so thrilled to make a globe. What a neat tool! I followed the tutorial that was posted, loaded the layers mask, and played around with it. It took quite a while, including a little bit of frustration, but I finally got it. Thanks for all the helpful hints!! I now have a fabulous cover page!!

Beautiful!!!

Would you mind also posting it here? Picture grids GLOBES