You may be able to get that effect with the Chisel Script also which doesn't require python. Created by Rob A.

I was fooling around with Mollys text and here's what I came up with. the first one is text layer duplicated, blur the dup about 20, bumped the original at 65 and uncheck compensate for darkening.
Turnoff the blur layer. Did this on two text layers as Molly described, then did a glossy stroke on both bumped layers, set to fill at 10 for the 3D amount and the color set to white, then deleted the stoke layers.

For the glass one, I duped the bump layer, alpha to selection, shrink by 2 and hit delete to sort of cut out the middle and make an outline. Blured the outline layer by 5 then alpha selected the bumped layer, Inverted the selection, re-selected the outline layer and hit delete. I set the duped layer (outline) Opacity to 50% and the bumped text layer to about 20%.

Little different, but the results ain't half bad.


...and after all the kind words, I could't help myself......I had to do one in gold and bronze.

Very cool and imaginative

Thank you very much.

Thanks. I'm kinda partial to the galss one as well, and I like the "dust" behind the text on yours.

Sorry Brazos 42, didn't mean to hi-jack your gear tut thread. Just wanted to expand on the text "how to" part you asked Molly about.

This is great. Got some feed back on all I inquired about. Thought of some good ideas to try from the efforts of everyone. Our imagination is truly the only limit to what can be done with Gimp.