Haven't done one of these in a little while so why not.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 506-09.jpg

nice, did you try a background to see what it looked like?

No; probably should have. Just chose a checkered background (generated by G'MIC) to simulate a transparent background since this forum doesn't show that effect anymore (it use to when you expand full size, but now it just shows it as white so I cheated; lol). After merging the layers, I removed areas from left and right and did some additional cleanup work (tedious; wish there was a way to automate this).

Very neat. It actually looks 3D. Mind revealing how you did it?

Used a slanted tiled texture as a mask, ran Map>Cylinder making sure the result was bigger then the target image. I then dupped the target adding mask layer to both and copied the resulting mask on top layer and inverted the mask and copied it to bottom layer. Then I did some various smoothing steps on the image itself before merging down (that also included darkening the base (rear layer) some.

I've clearly been hanging out here too much . That actually makes some kind of sense to me. I would not have thought of doing it that way. Very impressive.

Excellent results Lyle. That would make a killer filter.

lol

Once you past the year mark here, then formal tuts don't matter.

I wish. Unless something incredible is going to happen to my brain in the next month, I still like/learn from the formal tutorials. I can grasp the concepts now though if not use them automatically, though I've become a bit of an expert with masks. I should post the last cover I did .