GnuTux's chrome maps make nice glass effects when used with layer modes, here is a Facebook cover design.

I like it he4rty, the opacity (or mode?) on the text is a nice touch.

he4rty: i agree with odin, very nice looking text.

Nice work.

That text is really impressive he4rty, how did you get the background to shine through to the text?

My take on glass. I think he4rty's looks smoother:

@warrior, try making the background darker, maybe there isn't enough contrast. Looks good though.

I think this one looks better. I like how the glass warps my background a bit:



EDIT: Thanks Molly. Darker bg probably would have been better.

Settings used. Map is from GnuTux:

The text is very nice... How do you make it see through like that?
Edit, I always learned in art classes, dark against light works best.

Thanks Molly. I added the settings, and xcf to my former post.

Thanks warrior, I will give them a try, I didn't even know about combining the bg with the text.

ok, what I am seeing is that the thing you did different is just lower the opacity of the logo to make it see through. Here I thought you used a glass script to do that


Edit, yours also looks great in purple with Tux-GC shadow at default, hope you don't mind, I like playing.

Looks nice Molly. I don't mind at all.

I've completely overlooked the advantages/importance of having that underlying text layer. It's sort of like having "Text Insurance".

Nice work on the glass as well everyone.

Another trick I have tried for smoothing is to run G'mics dream smoothing filter, I uncheck the equalise at every step and set iterations to 10, finally use the a selection of the original text to clear the background.

Very cool translucent designs. All three are good. I agree that less opacity in the text and more contrasting background colors, should produce a better effect and make it pop. There is a nice, smooth diffusion of the background colors though the text, as well.

G'MICs anositropic smoothing works well too, especially when smoothing heavily reflected HDRi Probe Images.


This is almost exactly how the edge smoothing option works. I don't actually cut anything though. I just invert and blur. Perhaps one day I'll develop a better algorithm. Something like averaging with the transparency of surrounding pixels. In the past, I've smoothed curves using a similar technique.

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That's really cool looking.
Have you tried to duplicate it and use a "Dodge" layer mode, and turn down this layers opacity?

Huh uh. There's actually three layers above the gold layer.