very nice he4rty !

i think one of the problems is that the dents appear very deep and are fighting with the 3D of the beveled text

your text almost looks like somebody fired a shotgun at the metal letters

btw, never knew one could make an animated brush...you are very knowledgable !
is your brush made from your platonic solids ?

Funny you mention shotguns but I thought the same, no the brush wasn't made from the platonic solid shapes but theres an idea though.

As to the animated brush there is tutorial on here somewhere.

I am looking for an animated tutorial to make a chain link brush too. I better get digging in the tutorial list

Ok, before we start have dug out the link to the Animated Brush Tutorial.

So tried some new ideas and hopefully improved some old ones, basically decided to try a rotating triangle brush.
Also increased the bevel on the main text to twice the bevel of the brush.
Softened the colours of the brush so hopefully not so harsh.
Created displace map and added lines to the image using the displace filter.

Here are the results



Here are the resources for you to download.

he4rty: wow, that's great work! thanks for sharing the resources.

i had to try this too, but i thought it would be easier to use patterned layers than to brush in the chisel strokes. i used an accidental pattern made with a g'mic filter and filled one layer with the original size, another with 1/4 size. then i added random transparent parties on both layers and merged them. i made another layer with some motion blurred noise stripes, but first i couldn't get that to show as much as i liked and then it was too pronounced - not too happy about that, but the stripe-like grunge was what i liked best about the original. then i bevelled and distorted the bevel a bit.

Anmal- really nice results do like the chiselled effect.

i think this looks really good (the pic is a bit small, so cant see all the detail)

i would like to see a tuorial or a bit more detailed explanation how you did it !

esper: you don't know what you're asking for, brother! i usually save all my experimenting - make several xcf:s with all the layers saved and save every accidental pattern that comes up in the process just in case i need it later on, so usually i can retrace my steps perfectly. not this time, though! my xcf was even more messy than usual and i didn't name my layers, so i don't know exactly what all the layers did. i've done my best to reconstruct it, though and i post the cleaned up version.

i didn't keep my pattern either, but i can tell you exactly where it came from - it's the voronoi pattern from dracs hammered metal tutorial: metal wurx XI - hammered metal. i duplicated the pattern layer, then scaled it down to 1/4 size by using small filters - map - small tiles twice. i changed the brush dynamics on the eraser so i could make some random sized and random spreaded holes in the top layer, then i merged them.

apart from that pattern i seem to have used two different grunge layers, one probably made from hsv noise run through motion blur and with inverted colours, the other most likely made by adding a canvas to a white layer in gimpressionist and then run it through motion blur and invert the colours. i spent a lot of time trying to get the right stripes but wasn't entirely happy with any of my results.

i know i used a distorted bevel somewhere in the process because the straight bevel didn't work with the chisel pattern, but somehow i must have lost the distorted bevel layer and i'm not sure exactly how i did it or where i used it.

i used a tweaked version of this technique erisian's glass text to get a tiny bit of gloss on the surface (and that is probably where i used the distorted bevel too) but i don't remember how i tweaked it and haven't given myself any hints. i think i used draconian's settings for chrome instead of erisian's settings for glass when i ran the curves, though.

whew, long story! here's the xcf anyway, you'll probably come up with something better yourself.

thanks for the xcf AnMal !

can not make much of it and the Voronai script doesnt work on 64bit

hmm... well, that xcf is a mess, can't do much about that. but i could make a new voronoi pattern and post it.

yes please, that would be really nice of you

here's the voronoi pattern - i even downsized it for you. figured you might want to play around with how to combine them yourself, though, so i didn't make holes and merge them.

Anmal - thanks for sharing the files.