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 Post subject: Frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:55 am  (#1) 
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Inspired by this photograph


We are about to create this simple but nice text effect


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1.First we need to create a brush as shown below.


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Create a new 60x5 px image with transparency.
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Choose the Ellipse select tool and make a selection that fits the canvas.

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Stroke the selection with Gradient tool: choose bilinear in tools options, change
Foreground/Background colors - fffff (white) for FG, 152d4c (navy blue) for BG,
stroke horizontally from the center of the image to its side

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Select All in Select menu (Ctrl-A) and Copy the selection in Edit menu (Ctrl-C)
Your brush is now ready and copied to the clipboard and appears
in the top left corner of the brushes panel.


2. Create text image.


Create a new 1600 x 350 px image with transparency.

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Create text layer above the Background layer.
For best results use bold fonts with more or less rounded corners.
I used Trash Toys font at 200 px font size. Type your text and align it horizontally
and vertically, or just move it pressing and holding the Alt key (Opt key for Mac users)
Leave the default (black) color for now.
Right click on text layer in the layers panel and click on Alpha to Selection
in drop down menu. In Select menu convert the selection To Path.
Now deselect all (Select>None). Right click on text layer again and select
Layer to Image Size.


3. Stroke the path with newly created brush from the clipboard.


Select created brush in the top left corner of the brush panel,
change the Spacing to ~ 40 px and Size to ~ 50px.
[Note: if you're using larger font size you might need to increase the brush size]
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Duplicate Dynamics off brush dynamics and set Size and Angle to Random.
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In the paths panel, right click on the path and choose Stroke path.
Check Stroke with a paint tool and Emulate brush dynamics and hit Stroke.
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4. Last step.
Fill the Background layer with color.
Ideally the color of the Background layer should match the color of the text.
I chose black color for both, but you can go with any colors you want, just make sure
it makes a good contrast with the colors of your brush (white and navy blue in this case)
You can also make a brush of different colors or use color gradients.
If you want more dense brushstroke you can decrease the brush spacing.
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Thanks for reading/watching!

Create your own shapes with path tool. Here's the brushstroke up close.


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Have fun.


Edit: for extremely busy or extremely lazy people (like myself) there is a script, written by Graechan The Wizard
that will produce this effects (and much more) in a nick of time. Download it here


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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:25 am  (#2) 
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Very nice result K1TesseraEna, thanks for the tut!

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:55 am  (#3) 
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Beautiful result. Thank you.


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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:07 am  (#4) 
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k1tesseraena: this looks, fun wintry and easy - i'll definitely try it, thank you for sharing :)!

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:47 pm  (#5) 
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i'm slow, but i do move once in a while :). here's what i did:

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a piece of cake. nice idea and tutorial, k1te!

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:59 pm  (#6) 
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K1TesseraEna thx for tuto! :coolthup
I will try!
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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:08 pm  (#7) 
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Thanks, guys!
wow, I completely forgot about this tutorial, although it was only 2 weeks ago!
So much stuff was going on lately. Or is my memory getting bad?

Anmal, thanks for trying it out. Nice result! Feel sorry for paisleys, thouhj, they are all frozen up, poor things. :(


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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:11 am  (#8) 
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k1tesseraena: oh, paisleys are a sturdy race, they've survived worse treatments than this under my hands :). and i usually try every text effect i find on paisleys, because if you can't use it on a paisley then what's the use?

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:13 pm  (#9) 
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K1TesseraEna wow i did, but find it very hard! :lame

Need thinking over and over the tutorial to get the outcome. :tantrum
but finally got it! :yes
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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:42 pm  (#10) 
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akros: fun, wasn't it :)? and your text really looks wintry. i don't think that font was very good for this effect, though, straighter lines would probably work better for this.

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:50 pm  (#11) 
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You are doing well Akros. I agree with AnMal, try doing it again with a boxier or straighter and thicker text

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:35 pm  (#12) 
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AnMal and Molly, ok i will try more times, using another fonts.
Really fun this result!
Thx! :bigthup

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:02 pm  (#13) 
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Lots of fun to play with K1TesseraEna

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:35 pm  (#14) 
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Have you written a script already? :smiley2


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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:50 pm  (#15) 
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Graechan, you keep surprising me.
You're way too fast for retiree. I bet you're hiding your real age from us! ;)
What are you, 25?


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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 1:52 am  (#16) 
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K1TesseraEna wrote:
Graechan, you keep surprising me.
You're way too fast for retiree. I bet you're hiding your real age from us! ;)
What are you, 25?

I wish but I made to many mistakes to go back then I'm just an old dog with a bad memory

If you like the script I'll place it on new post

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You can download Frost Crystals from GimpScripts

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
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graechan: you really are amazingly quick with your scripts! thank you for sharing, i will have fun with this.

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
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Anmal will post on seperate thread when I finish alpha to log section

Gunna watch the cricket now

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
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AnMal wrote:
graechan: you really are amazingly quick with your scripts! thank you for sharing, i will have fun with this.
It's the all because of the time zone and a bit of :wizwand

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 Post subject: Re: frost crystals text effect
PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:17 am  (#20) 
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Odinbc wrote:
a bit of :wizwand
self desintegration ? :shock:

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