Thanks. Found it in Filters > Light & Shadow. Trying to find out how to use it. Lots of choices in there.

I don't remember installing it but I see it in my plug-ins folder with a py extension. I looked in the plug-in and found the tutorial the plug-in was written from but not the plug-in. http://gug.criticalhit.dk/tutorials/itext2/

The python plug-in is here:

http://gimp-registry.fargonauten.de/node/24926

I didn't stray far from default, O. I followed up with reducing opacity in some layers, turning some layers off, etc. The shadow settings are for drop shadow, which you really don't want too high or dark, I reduced those to 2px each at 75 px opacity. I used dark grey as fill color, and white for light. After switching and testing the different layer modes, I merged the final choices, and then ran Color-Curves to refine the glows and highlights.

Ah, thanks mahvin. That gives me something to go on.

I didn't concentrate on what the font was but the effect. This is my second attempt, it isn't too horrendous, it would be better if i was energetic enough to figure out what font it should be. It looks very familiar.

That's very impressive! Are you using a specific filter for that?

No, it's just 2 layers and a filter in Inkscape. I should have taken more care with it and it would have looked better.

That is a pretty cool result Gms.

One of the people in the fonts newsgroup found the font. I guess that means I've got to get serious now.

A&S Bone Casual

Available at http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/as_bone_casual.html

SWEET!

Awesome!
Thanks for the link O. =)
That's a nice font site.

Very cool find O. Nice that the font appears to be free too (but haven't downloaded it yet, but probably will).

Wow, Lyle, that text is great.

Thanks O. I used the text php on that site to create the bitmap. Mahvin already mentioned Glossy Stroke 3D and that along with a few addition enhancements, is what I used for the gel step. I've since installed the font (and man did it take GIMP a long time to refresh the font when I relaunched GIMP; lol) by the way. I sort of like it so its now a keeper.

When using glossy strokes, try widening the font selection just a few pixels before running it. I love that it leaves your text in 5 different layers so you can treat each layer separately, for blurring the highlights a little bit, etc. Love this plug-in.

Have some more tweaking to do. Need more light/dark contrast.

Believe or not i was messing around today with FX-Foundry scripts, and placing them all in the same place in the menus when i stumbled upon one named just Logo.
That's weird i thought and checked it out.It is supposed to give any text a look like Mac style text.Whatever that means.

It resembles this effect almost to the letter....sorta speak. The glossy-ness and whatnot. =)
It is found under FX-Foundry, usually right at the bottom of the menu drop down list.
Logo

Unfortunately you would probably have to install all the foundry scripts to get it.
Just thought i would mention it though.

Results from running just the script with the correct color and font.

Looks good. I don't find anything at FX Foundry just named Logo.

I don't have it either! I think I need to find it!

Couldn't find "Logo" but Glossy looked cool.

Rod might be referring to the FX-Foundry menus that appear on the Filter Menu; It has a Logo section, and the Shrek style logo effect is similar.