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
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