Chrome Letter Tutorial

[The Warrior]

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that:

[Wallace]

Nice tut, here's what I came up with. I included the font, which wasn't easy to find.

[Wallace]

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

[The Warrior]

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

Inverted it, got rid of the stem, changed the rose to chrome, then colorfied it red. Reloaded the image, and got rid of the rose, changed it to chrome, and colorfied the stem green. About it really. Nice work btw Wallace.

[Wallace]

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

Inverted it, got rid of the stem, changed the rose to chrome, then colorfied it red. Reloaded the image, and got rid of the rose, changed it to chrome, and colorfied the stem green. About it really. Nice work btw Wallace.

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great!

[The Warrior]

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great!

Colors>Colorify. Color Map options work great.

[Wallace]

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great!

Colors>Colorify.

Oh.... It's late.

[The Warrior]

Oh.... It's late.

Keep on GIMPin'.

[Wallace]

Keep on GIMPin'.

No bout adoubt it.

[The Warrior]

Keep on GIMPin'.

No bout adoubt it.

Yep, it's late.

Thanks everyone, appreciated. It's very easy to do, with nice results.

I saved the color curve in so I don't have to remake it every time I do this: Chrome-Warrior

That's what i do as well. I have 9 different settings saved for chrome, haha.

@The Warrior: Thanks for sharing. Would you care to post your Chrome Presets?

If anyone else is interested in some more Chrome Curves, my memory serves me that Draconian previously posted some Chrome Presets in this thread here.

[The Warrior]

@The Warrior: Thanks for sharing. Would you care to post your Chrome Presets?

Sure, no problem.

[Esper]

i did it without the Alien Map as thats just another chrome curve on top, it seems to me

also i find the first steps a bit odd, when you extract the text selection from the bump-map with the colour-select tool...
i just save the alpha selected text to a channel, then duplicate it and blur by 5 for the bump map

nice effect overall !



if you are interested in the landscape-gradient-as-chrome-effect
i made a very long post about that on my blog recently:
http://gimp-science-labs.blogspot.de/20 ... -post.html

[The Warrior]

The Alien Map is like another curve, but it's an easy fix. Nice work, btw.

[he4rty]

Nice tutorial, easy to follow.

[The Warrior]

Thanks He4rty, and nice work.

[ek22]

e-book cover I made for an author friend, using your improved chrome technique. Works like a charm.

[molly]

Very nice job EK, your friend will surely like that.

[ek22]

I'm hoping so yeah. Maybe she'll like it enough to pass me around her circle of friends for more of this kind of thing.

[dinasset]

Did the script magician Graechan already think about scripting this tutorial?
(maybe he did it already and I don't find it...)