My Father’s Day present to Dad: The Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee by James Mooney, in on

My Father’s Day present to Dad: The Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee by James Mooney, in one convenient volume!I’ve still not been able to find a way of replicating a true “marbled” paper in GIMP yet, and my research shows that apparently it’s considered very difficult to do digitally by people who know more maths than I do - something about fluid dynamics, apparently. What I’ve done for the endpages here, though, while it isn’t the same, is still cool, and may very well end up as the ‘standard’ endpage style for my ebooks.I also did something new for the pages, rather than the usual “parchment” pattern: that pattern there, if you look closely, appears to be beaded, right? Wrong. I found the pattern on a site (https://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeeTraditions/index.html, if you’re curious) about Cherokee traditions. I replicated it, pixel by pixel, in GIMP, then copy-pasted the pattern over and over to cover the page. Then I ran it through a couple different filters - there’s a greyscale plasma layer to give it some slight shading, and a weave filter to give it texture. After that, I increased the brightness a lot so that it didn’t make the text hard to read, resulting in the final product you can see here.All-in-all, it was an interesting project. I think in the future I’m going to try doing something similarly unique for the page textures for each ebook: imagine reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with a gears, cogs, and pistons motif around the page edges (moving like a flip-book, too!), or the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius on a long scroll, as the Romans would have published it! -- source link
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