GIMP & Cracked Glass

[Wandering Soulstar]

Hi All,

I need to make some cracked glass textures. GIMP (2.8) is the tool I use for textures, and where the existing panes of glass that I want to put random cracks into were made. I have looked, but not found so far, to see if there was a filter/function in GIMP that would give me a cracked glass effect .... So .. anyone out there have a suggestion for how to do this in GIMP?

 

Thanks!

Wanda

[Callum Meriman]

Lots of tutorials.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=gimp+cracked+glass+effect

[Pierre Ceriano]

Hello there !

I would start from white background, then add a transparent layer on its top, then add some dirt :

• Filters > Render > Noise > Plasma
• Colours > Desaturate > Desaturate > Mode average

Then use or add some brushes from/to your Paintbrush tool : you have many googling ; I would use those, or those.

Optional : colorize a bit ; maybe a kind of brown ? (Html 2e2609 for me)

Then play with the opacity till it fits your expectation (I choose 50 %), remove the white layer and export to .png

 

[Wandering Soulstar]

Thanks so much  @Pierre Ceriano !!! I am truly a basics amateur when it comes to using GIMP (or any graphics design tools) and the ponter for the paint brushes was precisely what I needed and learned a whole new aspect to GIMP.