The thing to remember is to use a grey gradient across the text/picture. Then bump map that, then play with the levels. Make sure you have a fully black and white blurred picture to use as a bumpmap. I've often gone wrong by just blurring white text/shapes on a transparent background, which doesn't work very well, if at all.
I use this effect quite a lot in my stuff. I'm no hacker or GIMP expert either, but if you follow that tutorial on http://gug.sunsite.dk to the letter then you should be fine. Tom On Wednesday 21 Jul 2004 12:33, Gearoid Donnellan wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for reposting this but not sure if the first one arrived and > I also just read the bit about not adding large attachments to files. > Could anyone let me know how to replicate the effect shown in the > images here http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~drakon/images/ > > I have been trying to replicate an effect I have used in Photoshop > with the Filter>Sketch>Chrome Tool that it has but I havent been > successful. I have tried to apply the tomcat chrome text tutorial but > Im a noob to gimp so I may have been doing it wrong > > The first image is banner1.png > The second is the photoshop tool and the third is roughly what the end > result should look like. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
