OK 2-Ton; here's a near tut. To get it shiney eludes me right now (brain's still tired) but I believe it required additional combinations of anisotrophic smoothing and Irridescent filter again.

1. Run Logo>glossy with following settings:



2. Delete Drop Shadow and Grow me layers and duplicate the text layer (note that both text layers are still set to Screen).

3. Run G'MIC's Local Orientation with the following settings:

http://www.thedigitalartshop.com/filter ... ug-in.html



4. Result so far:

5. Flatten, and run Irridescent filter. Then run Gradient Map using Metallic Something gradient:



6. Run G'MIC's Tone Mapping preset with the following settings:



7. Now this result isn't quite the smoothed result that I achieved earlier, but those steps, I believe, involved going back and forth between G'MIC's anisotrophic smoothing and also running irridence filter again, but the flow eludes me right now since my brain's still tired due to lack of sleep; lolol

Very nice tutorial Lyle.

Thanks Molly.

I know how hard it must of been for you, so thank you for the tutorial, are we going to see some more now the bugs bit.

he4rty, Lyle has 20 tutorials in the Gimp Chat Tutorial Index already, it was when he wasn't sooo lazy

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Thanks so much Lyle, I know how you don't usually do up tuts....I can't wait to try this out this weekend!!!!! But first, I am going to have to find out how to get the iridescent filter to work in mcgimp.

graechan: i really like yours, it's so smooth!
fluffybunny: nice work on that!

@Graechan and Fluffybunny.
Nice job on both of them but I can't read what the text is on yours fluffy...what does it say?

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ok, just wondering what it said. When the letters run together, I sometimes use the kerning tool to space the letters more. Just a suggestion. Nice job though.

Thanks for the tutorial, lylejk, I've been messing around with it for a couple of hours. It's great fun seeing what turns up.I didn't use the photoshop filter, since I started using Linux I've been a bit paranoid about installing any non linux stuff.
I ran the anisotropic filter once and change a few of it's setting, can't remember to what though, and pasted the original text layer, the one that's left just before flattening the image, onto the top of the finished text.

BTW, is the colour scheme that's on the buttons in your version of Gimp a download or one of your own design? It looks well cool.

great job caz!

Nice result all; like your's very much Caz. Very tired (going eat and sleep as the ol' story goes; lol), but want to say that I'm greatful for the words and just remember; there's always more then one way to skin a cat (and my apologies to my boy Socks (cat)). lol