[Gimp-user] Producing Gel text.

[John Culleton]

The excellent book by Michael J Hammel The Artist's Guide to Gimp Effects 
describes in detail the creation of gel text for book covers, web pages etc.  
I developed my own summary checklist following the guidance in his book. And 
it works in production. 

The bad news is his list has 37 steps. And his book was written in the days of 
Gimp 2.2, looking forward to 2.4. Today 2.6.11 is the stable version and 2.7.x 
is in use by many. So I ask the group to look over the 37 steps listed below 
and evaluate whether there are better approaches available in e.g., 2.6.11 
that can shorten the list a bit.
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1. Create canvas 420x100 at 300 dpi.
2. Select Foregorund Color and set to 0/15/222
3. Select text tool. Choose serif font  set to e.g. 180 pixels.
4. Type text
5. Move text to center of canvas.
6. Choose Layer- Layer to Image size.
7. Choose Layer- Transparency - Alpha to Selection.
8. Choose Select - Shrink 2 pixels
9. Choose Select - Feather 2 Pixels
10. Select Foreground Color and set to 31/82/255 
11. Select Layer- New layer. Name Bump Map.
12. Make Bump Map active layer.
13. Fill text with Foreground Layer color (drag  drop).
14. Select - None.
15. Layer - Duplicate. Name layer Blur.
16  Make Blur layer active layer.
17. Filters- Blur-Gaussian Blur 10 Pixels.
18. Make Bump Layer active layer.
19. Filters - Map - Bump Map. Azimuth 105, Elevation 5.75,
  Depth 10, Map Type Linear, Compensate for Darkening. Apply.
20. Set Bump Map Layer mode to Addition.
21. Colors - Curve 
22. Set Blur Layer invisible.
23. Bump Map Layer: Filters - Light and Dark - Lighting Effect
24. Options tab: Move blue dot.
25. Light Tab: Directional, Intensity 1.45, OK
26. Layer - Transform - Offset -2 -2.
27. Filters - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 5 
28. Make Blur active  visible.
29. Layer- Duplicate Layer.
30. Make Blur Duplicate Layer active.
31. Layer - Transform -Offset 2 2
32. Make Blur layer active
33. Layer - Trensform - Offset -2 -2
34. Set Blur layer mode to Addition
35. Set Blur copy layer mode to Screen
36. Make text layer active
37. Filter - Shadows - Drop Shadow Offset 2 pixels Blur 3
pixels.
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John Culleton

Create Book Covers with Scribus
http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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[Gimp-user] Gimp - iMac 10.7 Lion?

[Spender]

Hello.
Yesterday  MacForum, showed  a list of the apps that will be used or not in new 
iMac 7.10 Lion.
Almost all of my apps will not work with  Lions . Gimp was one of them .
 We Mac users need to forget Gimp?
Karl

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[Gimp-user] Different nuances when using Gimp on same jpeg

[antonio montagnani]

When I use my laptop and I open a jpeg image with EOG or geeqie I get
different nuances.

See for example http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/schermata3.jpg/

I am confused, I opened same jpeg image with two applications (on the
left) that give same result, and the GIMP that seems more blueish...

Running Fedora 15 fully updated on an Acer laptop with Intel graphics
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Antonio M
Skype: amontag52

Linux Fedora F15 (Lovelock) on Acer 5720

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Re: [Gimp-user] Producing Gel text.

[Owen]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:36:34 -0400
John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote:

 The excellent book by Michael J Hammel The Artist's Guide to Gimp
 Effects describes in detail the creation of gel text for book
 covers, web pages etc. I developed my own summary checklist following
 the guidance in his book. And it works in production. 
 
 The bad news is his list has 37 steps. And his book was written in
 the days of Gimp 2.2, looking forward to 2.4. Today 2.6.11 is the
 stable version and 2.7.x is in use by many. So I ask the group to
 look over the 37 steps listed below and evaluate whether there are
 better approaches available in e.g., 2.6.11 that can shorten the list
 a bit.


Are you sure that File-Create-Logos-Chrome wont do what you are
looking for?




Owen
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