Customised text with a texture effect

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

EK22 - looks good, like the idea of the bump map.

AnMal · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:49 pm **(#22)**

he4rty: mind your language, mister! :hoh

that's of course the tea stain filter and i'm not one bit ashamed of using it. hmph.
esper: it isn't a forest, but it's a thing found in a forest - moss growing on a tree.

Esper wrote:

btw, im a tea guy (yeah, there i said it)

yay! finally someone who dares stand up to the brown bean juice mob!
ek22: that's a really great effect! would work both as stone and matte metal. and look, you inspired me to try a bump mapped grunged gradient

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

nice text AnMal

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

@EK22:
nice result, what kind of texture did you use ?

@AnMal:
im loving your second piece
nice glowing colors and the background is tasty as well - is that a pattern you made ?

AnMal · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:12 pm **(#25)**

molly: thank you - i have my bright moments :hehe

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esper: yep, i have silicon mirror and jan toorop's "the three brides" to thank for that one.

ek22 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:48 pm **(#26)**

@ Esper: I pulled this off of a free domain stock site, I forget the link, but I had it sitting on my drive for a minute doing nothing, until this tut came along and here we are.

@AnMal: I totally love your color choices, they are always so asian. Very vivid. That turned out really cool.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

he4rty wrote:

he4rty, what is the name of this font ?

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Esper its called valkenregular although in gimp it show as Valken Thin

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Thank you !!!

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:18 pm **(#30)**

Nice Tutorial Esper

Here are some of my results. I was unable to choose my favourite. :spock

Odinbc · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:32 pm **(#31)**

You've been busy, I like #5 first and #4.

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:41 am **(#32)**

fluffybunny: they look great! :clap

don't think i could pick a favourite either, they all have something that i like.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

they are all great, fluffy !
how did you make the turquoise maze-like-lines around the text ?

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:04 am **(#34)**

Thanks OdinBC, Anmal & Esper. With such a well written tutorial, who could go wrong? :jumpclap

Esper wrote:

how did you make the turquoise maze-like-lines around the text ?

The answer is suprisingly simple...
I followed your tutorial to the letter.
In step 19, I just applied a different Gradient and Shape for the background layer.
I used one of Photocomix gradients called "Basic_Cyan_Blue_Zigzag". :bigthup

Setting the gradient shape to "shaped angular", I applied the gradient to the Selection that remains active after I have 'Inverted' the 'Alpha To Selection' of the text layer.

Each of my five images were created using the same method mentioned above but just using different gradients.
fluffybunny

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:58 pm **(#35)**

fluffybunny: i never thought it would be that simple, it looks great.

i had to take another shot at this effect now, using the angular shape fill background. this was just the first try, i sort of went a bit mad and made fifteen images, one nicer than the other

. i stuck to the bump mapped grunge instead of the cut-out type and added a glow and a vague outline stroke.