how to make your own digital camo

[Il Duce]

you can use this for areas that are local to you

OK, here is the write up.

You need to download GIMPfirst...

Find an image you want to use.

Something with scenery in it works well. You don't want any pictures with a huge glob of a common color in it. If you're picture has something like that in it, just crop it down to get rid of it.

Here's the original picture I used. It's a picture taken in the Ozark forest.

Bring it into GIMP and perform a Pick noise filter (Filters>Noise>Pick...). Just max out all the settings here, but use 10 for the Random Seed value.

Once that's done, you can perform a Make Seamless filter (Filters>Map>Make Seamless...). This is optional, but it allows for the texture to be patterned repeatedly (similar to tiling a windows background).

Now you need to pixelize it (Filters>Blur>Pixelize...). Digital camo has a ratio of 2:3 (width:height) and they're approximately 1/4" tall in real life. So pixelize it accordingly. I used 10:15 on this one.

Now you'll notice that there are way too many colors. Digital camo has 3 or 4 colors in it. So lets index it down to 4 colors (Image>Mode>Indexed...)

Bam, all done. Easy, huh?

[jtluttrell]

Very Cool. Now let's see it done with another picture to send subliminal messages.

[Il Duce]

here is one i did since my gf wants to do her handgun in these colors once she gets it

[jtluttrell]

That one is scary. Wait a minute, I recognize that photo.....

[Capbyrd]

Thats incredibly cool. I want to do my Mosquito in desert digi.

[Il Duce]

california desert

digied

[Chucktshoes]

That's pretty awesome. Had to try it myself, so I decided to do some Memphis digicam.

The original:

The result:

[Oh Shoot]

I'm trying to think how you get this digital file onto your gun, short of a computer controlled air brush system?

- OS

[Guest jackdm3]

Or to print it to cloth.

[craglawnmanor]

OWWW!! I have a headache! Too much digital noise!

[strickj]

I'm trying to think how you get this digital file onto your gun, short of a computer controlled air brush system?

- OS

You could use an electronic cutter to cut a stencil.