That isn't too bad Draconian. A little gloss with the shine script may do the trick. Just to make it waxy looking like crayon.

I tried to do exactly that but as I just got thru posting on your snake breath thread, I can't get shine to work. That's what it needs alright.

Found this font,it is called eraser medium on dafont.com
it is based on a video tut on youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQCXwjCSDQ

hopes that helps
sorry if I am not here too often,but work is keeping me busy

I went ahead and wrote a script for a crayon effect. This should work for any larger size text.
Small text will get highly distorted.Here are some examples.
Keep in mind the red color is from the layer in screen mode above all the text layers.
Also once the filter is applied the text is rasterized, and is no longer editable.
If you like these i will attach the script in a dedicated post elsewhere.
Calibri Italic seems to work the best.

The crayon text that has a rectangle around it is the commercial font Crumbled Crayon.
That was my target goal. I think i got pretty close.



Also this effect works best on a white bg , and the fonts in the image work the best.
Let me know what you think and i will go from there.

Thanks!

Nice one Rod!

Nice work Rod. The one in the middle would be my choice, looks more realistic than the sharp edges on all the rest of the examples. They look too contrived. I don't see that shine you were talking about applied here.

Seeing Rod's sample, I realized this looks similar to the distressed results of my water ripple script: http://registry.gimp.org/node/24597

You might get something satisfactory playing with that...



-Rob A>

I still believe that Spread Noise with a very low setting like 3 followed by a Gaussian Blur of 1 yeilds a much more crayon like effect. Too much Spread Noise and it starts looking more like chaulk.

I fooled around with this a little more and ended up using Glossy Stroke to finish it off. To put a few holes in it I also used a desaturated RGB Noise @.50, then levels and a few other tweaks to get some good particles then Alpha selected the Noise layer and used it to delete from the text layers before the blur step.

I know, clear as mud. Anyhoo, here's a couple. One ended up looking good enought to eat!

I will eat the first on as a gum drop and the second as a ju-jube yummy

And I was thinking the second one had icing on it!