Doing this based on my "World Peace" creation
here.
This is a tutorial, on how to make an "Interlacing Text". You will need the following installed in your GIMP. ML Bevel Reflect 2.0, Bevel Reflect Logo 1.5, and 3D Text. Fonts, Gnu Tux' e-maps, and 3D script I'll put in a zip file at the end of this tutorial. Here's a
LINK for the Bevel Reflect Logo download.
Okay, let's get started:
1. Go to "File>Create>Logos(gimpchat.com)>Bevel Reflect Logo", and start the Bevel Reflect Logo Script.
2. Use these settings, marked 1 through 5, and hit "OK". Make sure to use capital letters on "WORLD".
3. Should look like this.
4. Rename the "BRL Logo" in the layers dialogue, to "WORLD".
5. Right click the "BRL Logo Copy" layer, in the layers dialogue, and hit "Alpha to Selection". Go to "Select>Invert", and invert the selection. Now select the "WORLD" layer you renamed earlier, then go to "Edit>Clear, then Select>None". This will give you a nice clean line around the gold logo.
6. Return to "File>Create>Logos(gimpchat.com)>Bevel Reflect Logo", and use these settings, then hit "OK". Capitalize the "P", but use lower case for the rest of the letters. This will help make the logo smaller, in front of the "WORLD" logo. Also, make sure the font size is set to 200. Forgot to include that. It will open up a new window. Should look like this.
7. Repeat the same procedure as in step 5, for the "Peace" logo.
8. Go anywhere on the screen, right click, hit "Edit>Copy". Go ahead and close the "Peace" screen. We won't need it anymore.
9. Right click anywhere on the screen, hit "Edit>Paste as>New Layer". Looks like this.
10. Rename the "Clipboard" layer to "Peace".
11. Use the "Move" tool, and move the "Peace" logo, to somewhere in this vicinity". Right click the layer in the layers dialogue, and select "Layer To Image Size".
12. With the "Peace" layer still selected, go to "Colors>Colorfy", select the stock blue as shown, and hit "OK".
13. Now go to "Layer>New from Visible", and select it. It will give you a new layer titled "Visible". This will be the other 2 visible layers merged, which is the key to interlacing. You can click the eye on the "Peace", and "WORLD" layers, to hide them.
14. Since our canvas is now a bit filled, we need to go to "Image>Canvas Size", and select it. Set the Width to 950, and hit "Resize". You'll have to grab the edge of your GIMP screen, and pull it out to see the added size.
15. Right click the "Visible" layer, and select "Layer Image To Size".
16. With the "Visible" layer still selected, go to "Script-Fu>3Dtext>make>3d" and select it. Set to these settings, and click "OK". Should look like this. I made the canvas a bit big, but we'll still need to add a shadow, and we can always crop. This how the interlacing is done. The layers have to be in one layer, and get extruded at once. We're doing a more fancy approach, but a simple colored text, over another different colored text, placed in the same layer, will produce these same results.
17. Right click the "Visible copy" layer, and select "Layer to Image Size". Hide the "Visible" layer. Go to "Filters>Light and Shadow>Drop Shadow", use these settings, and click "OK". Select the "Drop Shadow" layer, right click, and select "Layer to Image Size". Should look like this.
18. Go to "Layer>New Layer", rename to "Background", and hit "OK". Use the arrow on the bottom of the layers dialogue, and move it to the bottom. Should look like this.
19. Go to the Bucket tool, select "Pattern fill", and go to "FiddleBackRedOak" in the pattern selection. Fill the "Background" layer. Should look like this.
20. Use the crop tool, and crop it to something like this.
21. Go to "Filters>Decor>Add Bevel", and select it. Set "Thickness" to 10, and make sure "Work on Copy" is unselected. With the "Background" layer still selected, do this procedure twice, for a nice bevel.
22. That's it! Congrats on your first "Interlacing Text". By the way, you can always add a drop shadow to the background layer, or even 3D it as well.
EDIT: It looks like this if you 3D the Background layer, and add a drop shadow to it: