Creating Shredded Steel Text in Gimp - 2.6.11
What we will be creating -



You will need -Chisel.scm for this tutorial get it here
http://registry.gimp.org/node/24217
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Let's begin-
Create a new document 900x250 pixels white background
Times Roman font - nice older midevil looking font works - antialias - size 150-230 - color: 666666 (mine is 150 because of text length)
Type your text - center it - (mine is gimp - chat)
Go to Filters/Decor/Chisel - Put in these values

Make the top layer invisible (the bevel-layer)
Select the text layer
Go to Filters/Noise/HSV noise put in these values

Right click the text layer select alpha to selection
Go to Filters/blur/motion blur put in these values

select/none

Make sure the bevel layer is visible.
Right click any layer and select - new from visible
Make all layers invisible except the top one
Select the top layer
Go to colors/curves put in this line

Your text should now be a nice chrome looking color like this. (this is kind of like the cone setting in photo-shop)
Now make all the other layers EXCEPT the white background layer visible again.

Right click the top layer and select - new from visible again
Select the top layer and go to Colors/Brightness and contrast put in these values

Make all layers invisible except the top one and the white background layer.

Now download this pattern and open as layers - shredpattern.gif

Right click the new opened layer and select alpha to selection all the black squares should be selected at once.


Make the shredpattern.gif layer invisible.


Select the layer directly under shredpattern.gif layer
Go to edit/cut and then edit paste
Make the new floating selection a layer (select new layer)
Rename this layer transformation.
Select the transformation layer and the move tool, move it around to your liking.


This effect looks best with a dark layer behind it so lets make the original layer of text visible.



For a shadow duplicate the top layer and fill it with black and lower it underneath the original blur by 11 and that look creates your shadow.You can move it ( the shadow layer) around to your liking.


well there you have it - another pretty cool way to use the select tool.
This was originally a Photo-Shop tutorial


Thanks for checking it out.

By the way you can do whatever you want with any pattern pretty much.make your own or whatever.I provided the one above because it was like the PS tutorials pattern.Except they did theirs with PS's built in Pattern Maker. (something Gimp needs)

Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Before the following section of instructions, I think you may need to include a step to unhide the bevel layer.


GIMP's "Paper Tile" filter is capable of creating patterns that should be usable in lieu of your 'shredpattern.gif'. For example, I used the following settings applied to a white layer (optionally followed by a second application, perhaps with a lower Movement percent).

Thanks Saul.I learn something new about Gimp every day it seems.
Sorry about the large images everyone with slow speed - some folks just do not like spoiler tags i guess.

It's not the image dimensions that are a problem, it's the file size. Your file sizes are all modest (100-150kB). They aren't much of a problem even though there are a lot of them.

The problem files are the complicated images (i.e. kaleidoscope images) that are saved as png's or saved as jpg's with a very high quality factor.

It is your tutorial; you should create it as you wish it to be.

See i told you i learn something new every day.
Thanks guys.

Nice tut bro! I think I'll give this a shot, but explode the text instead.