original mini-tutorial by dd from this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6194&start=40#p77694



Type your text on a new transparent layer.



1 - create a new layer on top of the text layer, fill it with black
2 - go to your text layer and select > alpha to selection
3 - select > feather selection by 15
4 - go to the new layer and fill selection with white # now you have a height map on your new layer.



5 - apply emboss on the new layer (Filters -> Distorts -> Emboss)



6 - go back to your text layer and alpha to selection again
7 - go to new layer, invert selection, erase selection (or alternatively, create a layermask from selection)
8 - set new layer to grain merge





alternatively, use 'Colours' -> 'Colour To Alpha' and choose the grey with the colour-picker



to show the result better i made the black text red

Esper pulls through with the definitive tut

Bookmarked!

interesting to know Graechan !

how comes in most scripts highlight and shadow are two seperated "layers" ?
highlight is always Mode: Screen
and shadow on Mode: Multiply ?

I like that they are on separate layers, so you can tweak them separately if you wish.

my thoughts exactly and you can use different contours on them too !

If you set the elevation on the emboss to exactly 30.2°, you won't need to do the "colour to alpha" on the gray, because at 30.2° the middle section becomes middle gray, and middle gray (#808080) is invisible in grain merge mode. x + 128 - 128 = x. (grain merge mode works by adding the colour values in the layers and substracting 128, or 0x80 from the result)

Esper, again thx for tutorial!

Excelent!

Thanks DD and thanks Esper for adding the screen shots, here is my result.

Nice he4rty, what a pretty shade of green.

Thanks, Initialy the text was purple as the background I chose was the same colour I simply went colours>invert and thats the green that showed up.

Really nice Molly, like the second version.

I recently used this tutorial to help create a logo candidate for SFML and I thought I'd share the results of that effort. Used for all of the text and the shamrock.



Oh, and.. hello.

thats lovely cire !

how did you get such a nicely distorted text and how did you color everything so wonderful ?
stroke each letter individually with the gradient ?


you might want to add a very subtle outer glow to mask the slightly jagged edges of the text

Nice job Cire...and welcome to Gimp Chat

Welcome to GC. I just loooove that font. What is it called?

cire: hello and welcome to gimp chat! beautiful job on that logo, i like the colour scheme!

Here's an image made using the Emboss filter. Then colorized with a layer above it set to grain merge. I had to use the curves on the embossed layer to get the darks and lights just right. I'll try to upload an xcf file if anyone wants to take a gander at the layer structure used.