This is really just for some practice but it turned out pretty O.K. I download a silhouette of a chess piece and using the things I'd learnt in doing the crown moulding gradients created a gradient for the Image. I used the gradient in a blend top to bottom to create the depth of the image profile, then using path blend and a half circle gradient blended left to right to try and create the illusion of the piece bieng curved. Finally added a marble texture displaced using the profile gradient.

That is excellent he4rty. It shore does look like Marble.

great job...it definitely looks rounded and very real

Nice job! Light and shadows are just great!

he4rty: that's fantastic! impressive that you made it with gradients, i don't hink i could do anything this complicated using the gradient tool!

yeah, very realistic and impressive !

the lighting of the background is pretty neat too !

Looks fantastic he4rty.

I really like how your texture came out - it looks very realistic!

This looks so real and I'm so very jealous.

Thanks for the comments, I doubt I'll try anymore as this one was done to try out a wallpaper idea.

Esper - The background lighting was just a black layer with a checker board layer above it which had a layer mask consisting of a radial blend.

Got round to finishing my wallpaper

Wow. That is fantastic!

I really like that wallpaper, he4rty. I had to snag it to put on my desktop too. Perfect for the season!

whoa, that wallpaper is awesome

i especially like the lightrays - really epic !

is the text effect a further development of your experiments from this thread ?
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5495

Esper - Looks a lot more like Fencepost's Lord of the Rings text effect tutorial.

http://www.gimpdome.com/text-effect/lor ... j9tv975sd3

Very impressive piece of art work. It looks quite realistic. Well done he4rty.

wicked !

and so easy

The text effect was done using fencepost's lord of the rings script-fu which you will find at the bottom of the tut.

has anyone tried the script using gimp 2.8?