I discovered that if you use alpha to selection on text then run G'MIC Artistic>Warhol you get this effect.

erisian: it looks fun, but i tried it and it didn't work. that is, it looked right in the preview, but the actual result was just empty coloured boxes on a whole layer, no selection. strange, i think.

That happened to me once when I had an additional layer. I don't know why it does that.

Nice effect.

Nice effect! I don't use G'mic, though...I tried to install it a long time ago but I couldn't get it to work. lol

It's cranky. Works one time, doesn't the next. I tried writing Gimp Chat in two rows. Wouldn't work. Even started a new image and used Chat and it wouldn't, so I ended up with Gimp which is better than nothing. Good find, Erisian.

I've done a similar effect using the checker render in gimp's defaults...Ofc it's not text, but it's kinda cool for an Alice in wonderland effect. lol

really cool effect!

***but it didn't work exactly right for me....it showed correctly in preview but when I applied it, it just copied the text to the warhol settings in a block. I could easily invert the selection and cut, so not a big problem.

It would be really cool if we could make it do something like this.

O, did you make that?

, No 2-ton.

Seems Warhol is too hit and miss. One day I'm going to redownload 2.8 just to see what that text editor is capable of.

i finally got it to work at least some of the times . i liked the text in text effect so much i decided to make something mor of it. here's a name tag i made for one of my sisters:

i used some smoothing and some gradient mapping and stuff.

I like that. The colours are gorgeous.

i know . but unfortunately they won't suit baby sis. i had to make a new one with boring colours for her - not everyone has my exquisite taste in colours

this is what I get

That is what I got, too, akky....so I just kept my original text selection, inverted, and cut. Then you get the effect originally intended.

good idea but the object was to use G'MIC anyway but thanks for the heads up

I know, I wish it would work right...perhaps one of the scripting guru's can figure out a script for the same ending effect.

Made me use my brain but I still had to fiddle with it