I like to necro old threads and get new results posted a decade after it's relevant. lol.

oh i wasnt criticizing the tutorial
i love the effect

in fact, i played several times with it in the last weeks, but i have to go back to the pdf everytime to repeat it, because i forget how it works
and thats because of the gradient mapping
it feels like the magical trick in this effect-formula

i just can remember the layerfx and curves technique better, because its always the same
just with a zillion variations

My first version of Gimp was v1.2 I believe. I combed the internet looking for tutorials about how to use it. At that time there was very little information or I didn't find where most of it was. Any tutorial I could find I grabbed, just to find out how to use this confounding program.

Luckily, I did have PaintShop Pro and knew what an imaging processing program did, but I was soon to be switching from Windows to Linux and Gimp, of course, was the foremost image processing program. I ended up writing some very simple tutorials that showed people how to use the Text tool, the drop shadow and how to make an animation. I don't even know where those tutorials are now. I don't have a copy.

Anyway, Esper, I did not take your statement about layerfx as criticism. It would have been simply heavenly to have something like that when I was beginning Gimp.

Thanks again Esper, your really helping me out today. This makes #2...

O: my first gimp version was either 1.2 or 1.4, and i switched from paint shop pro, just like you . in those days i was used to learning everything by experimenting on my own, i don't think i had ever even heard of tutorials. i gave up gimp because i thought it was a bit too hard to learn, then i came back a gimp version later (still before the 2.0) and things sort of started clicking into place for me.

It happened like that for me, too. A little light on here and one on there and stuff coming together for me. I'd wake up in the night thinking about something and have to get up to try it out.

I remember I got gimp because I accidentally deleted paint. Like ms paint, you know, like you shouldn't be able to, but I didn't heed the warning. I forget what I was trying to do but layers scared the hell out of me until they lured me in with treats and promises of not hurting me and all that.

I didn't know this thread existed when I wrote my Glass Text tutorial
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5126

Thank you O

Here's what I came up with:

well done mackenzie !

wow, that is excellent mackenzieh. I love that shade of blue, it is so shiny

mackenzieh: nice job! i agree with molly, you chose a great colour for this effect.

Nothing wrong at all it looks fantastic.
You can also upload your images if you wish.Just use the full editor and click that button image i posted here.

Thank you Rod - will do as you've suggested.