I found this cool PS tutorial and worked through it in Gimp but had to change up the methods quite a bit to get similar results. I'ld love to learn how to use the animated snow script inside the text. I'm sure it can be done, but at the moment it is beyond my realm of expertise.

http://textuts.com/glossy-snow-globe-text-effect/

Result looks cool Drac. I actually like using a few Inkscape plugins to get glossy results. Also, using curves, you can get glossy/glassy results too, but I can't find that tut I ran across that used that technique.

Fencepost animated snow scm
I used the lasso with add to current selection and subtract from current selection
make sure to check Keep selection with in the script

Cool effect alc59. Looks more like the bling script than the snow script. The animated snow script has snow falling down like Molly's sig.

I used the animated snow script
she might have changed from random to straight down snow fall

I usually like it to come straight down but you can change the snow amount which I made mine about 5. If you don't want the snow to be too thick your can change the size in layer one and layer two. I changed mine to 1 and 2 , just depending on the conditions I want. If you want a blizzard, you can raise the numbers. If you want the snow to come down slower, raise the speed from 150 to a higher number, try 200. and so on

Ahhhhhhhh. (light comes on) Shows how unfamiliar I am with that script. Thanks for the info.



Edit - I totally missed the random button. Much mo bedder gooder!

much better Drac.

awesome. I do think this would be a cool tutorial

This was one I intended to rework for Gimp users but it started to get really long due to the fact there were so many steps involved. PS does three and sometimes four operations at one time whereas Gimp has to do them all separately. In addition, some of the steps like using the Bevel & Emboss in Layer Effects is quite different. The script interface seems to be tailored after PS but when you enter the same settings, well it just doesn't work. I had to do all the little white highlights by hand using a combination of six or seven steps. Here's what I did.

1. First, I duped the text layer and filled it with white, select>shrink about 5 to 7 pixels (originally did this at 1600 x 1200), offset the layer a few pixels, used the text selection (saved to a channel) to cut it out, then moved it back about three times the distance I originally moved it.

2. Iused the eraser tool and a "Kitra" dirty brush (Deviantart) set really small using the Fade, Jitter and Opacity settings below to taper off the ends of each highlight.





3. I went to filters>noise>spread and I used either 1 or 2 (very low) to make it look more like a rough chalk line, and then gaussian blur at 3. I can't remember exactly but sometimes the blur makes the highlight sort of "fade" a bit so I may have duped the highlight layer to make it a bit more intense.

I use these same similar steps to make highlights cuz the Gimp filters will not allow you to set the angle at anything more than 180 degrees so there seems to be no way to get either shadows or highlights in the lower right hand area. I did the same similar thing with the lower right blurred shadows and just locking the alpha channel before applying the blur.

The first part of the original tut is easy enough to follow but (maybe it's just my lack of knowledge) I could not get the Bevel & Emboss filter to work the way I wanted it to. Hope this helps.

Ohhhhh! I was afraid someone would ask for one. I think someone opened a jar of Lyles's "I'm lazy" and poured it all over me. Not sure how it would turn out, I know it will be pretty long. I may take another stab at it after I finish the one I'm doing on fabrics. Just have to resize all the pics on that one and it's ready to go.

So I am waiting for your tutorial . Thanx before

Any advance on this??? as I am keen to give it a whirl but PS tutorials leave me cold!! I could probably do it in PSE but I get a bit bamboozled with the differences when it comes to translating them to GIMP.

Nice effect drac, really like the animated snow version.

Thanks he4rty, I actually did start writing the tutorial for Gimp but got sidetracked with the Metal Wurx stuff. I still have the folder with the screenshots and everything so I may actually happen in the near future. Just don't hold your breath.