It won't just be one more though will it Mo? Lovely purple!

Keep em coming!

Your turn

Tux, your instructions are great! But the only 2 tons gradient I ended up was #2, so I used that one. I could not figure out how to make it hue-shifted to get the engraved look but I got the rest of it down! Thanks so much, here is what I have so far! Any and all hints and helps are welcome, I still have to add more text and graphics to it.

Looking good, 2-ton!

The hue shift is basically a color change toward more a darker copperish gold, rather than a lighter yellow gold. As far as getting an engraved -vs- embossed effect, that is normally achieved by inverting the Bump Map. To me though, it seems the result is dependent on the colors used and the size & shape of the image. More often than not, if I stare at the bump, it becomes an optical illusion, sometimes looking like it's embossed and sometimes looking engraved, kinda like the old wire frame box effect.

At times, I can a better engraved effect by creating a darker inner shadow on one side and a lighter outer shadow on the other side (or an overall glow). In the following, I hue shifted and added an inner shadow to the bump mapped text.

Here's my 1st attempt at a gold coin.

I love that wow. How do you get that checkerboard bumped? Or is that a pattern?

Thanks, Molly.

I filled the BG with this pattern..


Colorized it, then Bump Mapped it with itself in the Lighting Effects filter .

I think I can get better color and shine on the coin with a different emap and extra lighting effects. Silver or copper should work good too.

Well thank you for that. I was trying everything. I put a gradient on to a transparent layer and tried bump mapping it and when I saved it, it wasn't there, of coarse cuz it was transparent. dumb me.

More Copperish..


Extra Lighting..

very good... I was working on a copper one but the ridge didn't go around the outside but I was able to stroke the dots, so I am still struggling. Better go get some more coffee first. BTW, I like the second one best.

Blur the outside edge of the black circle for the bump map, the same as you did with the black rectangle bump map, except maybe not quite as much.

Thanks Tux, here is the best I could get so far. Not happy with the curve on Canada and I would like the leaf more subtle. Anyway, still working on it.

This is more real so far

Looks fantastic, Molly. The 2nd one is just about perfect!

Thank you, I am working on a Canadian Nickel now. This is more than fun.

molly: that second coin really looks good! well done - and well deserved after all the work you put in

Well, I originally started my attempt at Gnutux's copper coin image, but....

Somehow, my brain went haywire and I ended up with this...

Thank you anmal. love doing this stuff. Nice job Rellik419

I have been trying all afternoon to do a nickel. I haven't had any luck finding a suitable enviromap for nickel that is shiny. It just doesn't have the zip that shiny metal has.
I used tux's graybackground pattern but I shore don't know how to bump map it. I tried over and over.


Edit: does anyone have any suggestions on how I can achieve this nickel type gradient. The actual nickel wasn't that blue but it did have a very blue cast to it.


I did a little antiquing to see if I can make it realistic but there is still something missing, maybe the text. It is still too new looking.

Wow, some amazing images in this thread the gold is looking good and coins are wonderful, excellent work Gimpers.