I made this after following a PS tutorial. It's fairly straight forward converting it for use in Gimp.
Hope it's okay to add the link here to the tutorial. I thought it might be useful in case anyone wants to create a similar letter. http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/desig ... es-letter/

This is part of an image I made for a writer friend, he wanted a cover to one of his short stories. The writing at the bottom of the envelope is Elvish btw.

Looks great! A shadow would really make this pop i think.

caz: "to whom it may condemn" - how very ominous. nice letter, i'll have to take a look at that tutorial though my past experiences of ps tuts hasn't been good.

Nice job caz.

What is the font used for, 'To whom it may condemn'?

Excellent!

I'm afraid I can only read Am' Athir Elvish. This form is new to me. Still - nice results Caz.

To do it in GIMP you could just watch Meet The GIMP episode 72 http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-072 ... -from-max/ which Max based on the same PS tutorial.

Kevin

paynekj: thanks for the tip! i took a quick look at the ps tut and it didn't look too hard to translate, but i'm a lazy sort and i much prefer to have someone else do the translation for me .

Love it.

Thanks for the comments everyone, there much appreciated



It's called Jefferson. I can't quite remember where I got it from but it might have been dafont.



This form of elvish is called 'Feanorian,' so I'm told. To be honest I don't know one form of elvish from the next. I used this on-line translator to get a printed version http://derhobbit-film.de/rune_generator.shtml Then I used inkscape to turn it into a vector font that I could use on the letter.

Caz, Thanks for the font name, Jefferson. It's familiar to me but I couldn't remember it's name or where I'd seen it used.

It is indeed on Dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=Jefferson Thanks!

Nice envelope effect also.