Hi Krasi - For your emobssed text, your best bet is to look a the tutorials at gimp.org. You can reach them easily by following the link from the GIMP Toolbox:
<Toolbox>/Xtns/Web Browser/GIMP Tutorials In general the trick is to use your text (say white text on black background) as a bump map. One can play more complicated tricks with blurs and layer masks, but for a quick preview try this: 1. Create some white text on a black background. 2. In Layers and Channels, create a new layer, just above the text layer. 3. Fill this new layer with some medium gray. 4. <Image>/Filters/Map/Bump Map... Use the text layer as the bump map. Play with the parameters to the Bump Map plugin - you can invert it, or use linear, sinusoidal, or spherical mapping, etc. Your second question: How to make an image lighter in the center and darker at the edges: one easy way to do this is to place a new layer over your original image, fill the new layer with a radial gradient running from light (in the center) to dark (at the edges), and set the layer mode to SCREEN. To make the effect even more apparent, duplicate the gradient layer and set the top copy to MULTIPLY mode. Which leads into your third question: how to make a layer partially visible. Open up the layers and channels dialog and set the transparency for the selected layer to whatever you want. A lot of this is explained in both the GIMP User Manual and Grokking the Gimp, both available on line from the <Toolbox>/Xtns/Web Browser menus. I strongly recommend you look at these references. I have both books installed on my system and use them heavily. Good Gimping! -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzs Home Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://members4.clubphoto.com/jeff309574 A photo gallery _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
