the font is 'Syndrome BRK' at ~300px and no, there isnt a tutorial

i couldnt really write one because the purple text is a sideeffect of my experimentations with Erisian's innard technique
and the glowing highlights are a result of that texture



here is a screenshot of the bevel values

Nice work! I think it looks really slick and should be known as the Esper effect.

Great looking text effect! The color is just perfect too.

Beautiful! Love the color and the shine.

OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo Shineyyy. Nice work it's pretty.

Well done, Esper.

I find the overall aspect of your image very agreeable for the elegant colors and the effective embossing of the letters.

Thanks everybody !

Yes Wallace, i agree about the colour, you know who you are

Now with added tutorial on my blog:
http://gimp-science-labs.blogspot.de/20 ... orial.html

Excellent effect Esper.

esper: very unoriginal of me, but i think this looks great! and i see you wrote a tutorial after all, thanks .

I added another screenshot on my blog, to show how one can improve the curve process

i think the "killer feature" of the effect is to make the highlight gloss up the edges
it should be a ring like shape with no fill - not too sharp and not too fuzzy

Nice tut! Here's how my text came out.

wallace: that looks just perfect! not very surprising that you'd try your hand at this one .

i've been fighting to get rid of a tension headache (too much sunlight and not enough sunglasses) before it turned into a migraine, so i've only been on the computer for a short while today. i might try this tut now, though, it's high on my gimp to-do list.

@AnMal,

Yeah... had to give this one a go due to it's color.

it's getting ridiculously late, but here's my result - couldn't resist a change of colour .

Wallace, perfect execution !!!
i guess it was easier for you because its in your trademark colour

AnMal, your usual high quality
i feel its getting old, saying its amazing all the time....
but what can i do ?
it is !

seems you used the attached texture i provided for the Inner Glow ?
looks good !

did you use the same texture for the gold stroke ?
if so, im surprised how extremely well it works - just like its made for that job

@ AnMal... Nice J.O.B.!!!

Glad you managed to crank this one out. Hope your felling better.

@ Esper... Thanks Esper, I did have trouble with all the curve settings, but managed to pull it off nonetheless.

what exactly did you find difficult ?

Well... Not knowing which layer to apply the curve to and what mode to use for the curves. The layers that I did apply the curves to, the mode was not able to be set, so that kind of through me off a bit.
In the tut, the curves mode in your images was set the 'Alpha', this mode could not be set for any of the layers in my 2.6 Gimp.

i see,
well my blogs works in a way, that i expect my readers to understand the basic tutorials i posted earlier

there is one about alpha curves - what they are and what you can do with them

you can find it here:
http://gimp-science-labs.blogspot.de/20 ... w-you.html

i posted a similar tutorial here on GC too

im not explaining that in every tutorial again - because that would take too much time


what i dont understand is, how have you been able to get the final result, if you couldnt apply any of the curves in alpha mode on your layers ?

Got a bit lost on some features as I had limited time, but hopefully I managed to recreate enough of the tutorial to make it work!