GIMP Version: 2.6.11
Operating System: Mac OS
OS Version: OS X
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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I'm getting somewhere now with my banner.

I've been looking through the various menus, but I cannot find any one tool or option that might allow me to add an 'icy', or wintry feel to part of the banner, either in the graphic or the text. I can blue words to make them 'windy', but I'm looking for ice, cold, freezing as well as images or 'things' that suggest heat, sun, hot and so on.

Is there some way of achieving these effects in Gimp on it's own, or do I need to download an add-on or something extra, please?

Many thanks, I'm enjoying learning about Gimp and in awe of some of the work hereabouts!

This is a good tutorial on ice text
http://www.youtube.com/davidwoodfx#p/u/45/pPBcdI2kSAw

You will need this script (place it in your scripts folder) - name it - plasti-wrap.scm
You will find it under Filters/Light and shadows/plasti wrap


Here is another
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... Q5CFcfCm9Q

(Ninja'ed by Rod)

A start:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/10894 (Ice cube logos) This may already be loaded in GIMP, check under File - Create - Logos.

If you want a part other than text to be icy looking use the Filters/Alpha to Logo/MS Ice Logo instead.
That will allow you to work with a selection on a layer with an alpha channel.
File/Create/Logos/MS Ice Logo will allow you to do icy looking font.

With Filters/MS Ice Logo
Create a new transparent layer - Create your selection or shape you want with selection tools.
I usually then will fill the area of the selection with white (some filters require a fill to run).
You can create a new black fill layer under the transparent layer to see what you are doing while making the selection area.Make sure your new selection is selected and that layer is selected and active.
Go to Filters/Alpha to Logo - select the filter in the menu
Run it with defaults for the first go.Delete or make invisible the white selection layer - the filter will copy your selection and create another layer above it.
Results -


Or you can select your white selection and fill with a blue color like this

Then set the opacity to the blue layer to 65 or around there.

XCF attached -
Hope that helps.

Afterward you can add some puddles like so. (circle selection tool with blue to transparent gradient)
Not perfect but you get the picture.


XCF attached

Hi did, I think, follow all the instructions on this, and this is the result in the Gimp folder, newly created in the Documents folder:

As you can see, it looks somewhat different to the file I downloaded from your link. So, what I did was to copy and paste the code from your message, and pasted straight into the Gimp scripts folder.

When I start Gimp, I can see the light saber in Script-Fu> blur, but no sign of the plasti-wrap. Out of interest, the light saber is greyed out, but maybe that's because I haven't enabled the correct tool from the toolbox?

So my current big question is about putting a script into the Gimp scripts folder - I appear to have done it, but something's not quite right.

Windy,

Who's tripping down the streets of the city, smilin' at everybody she sees....Everyone knows it's Windy. Sorry for my digression, but the name just reminds me of that old tune.

Now on to the serious business. From your screenshot, it looks like whatever text editor you might have used to save the plasti-wrap.scm file as saved it as a .txt text file. Especially in Windows, often times the .txt suffix at the end can be hidden from the user. If you are using something like Notepad in Windows, when you click on Save or Save As, a little Explorer like dialog window opens allowing you to select the folder you want to save your file in, and at the bottom has an entry for where you can select the File name. Below that is an entry labeled "Files of type" and the default in Notepad is to save it as "Text files (*.txt)" You need to click on the little button the the right to open up the menu settings and change that setting to "All files (*.*)" Then save your file as plasti-wrap.scm into the folder of your choosing.

Gimp does not recognize files with the .txt (text) suffix on them. Unfortunately, that suffix is one of the names that is often hidden by default on systems using Windows OSes.

I'm not a Windows user, so if you are using another text editor other than Notepad, again, you will need to check to make sure that whatever that editor is, that it is not automatically creating what you save as a text file and adding that .txt suffix to the end of your file name and worse yet, hiding it from you. Hope this might help some. Otherwise, I imagine we have other experienced Windows users here who can offer more help if needed.

You need to copy that script and paste it into a text document. When you name the text document you need to have an scm extension on it. I have done that and attached the plasti-wrap.scm file below. You will find the filter here: Filters/Light and Shadow/plasti-wrap...

I sincerely hope that you did not copy and paste all of that code into your scripts folder. If you did, you will need to go in and clean all that code out of your scripts folder. Be sure you do not delete anything with an scm extension on it.

I see ccbarr ninja'd me on this but if all that code is loose in your scripts folder, you still need to clean out the scripts folder.

While I am at it, here are a couple links to some icy scripts.

Ice Cube Logo

Ice Fire Logo

Thanks O i was just going to throw the script together and attach it, but i see you did already.
This is for a Mac system so i am not sure where scripts will go.

Windy:

As a beginning GIMPer, you'll be seeing a lot of people posting code (like Rod did above) for others to copy and paste.

Seeing that you are using a Mac OS X, first we need to identify what text editor you use in your Mac. Akky uses TextEdit. You would open TextEdit, copy the code Rod posted (not sure of Mac shortcut keys, but Windows and Linux = CTRL + C), then paste it (CTRL + V) into a new file on TextEdit. Save the file, naming it plasti-wrap.scm, and saving it to your Users/homefolder/library/applicationsupport/GIMP/scripts folder.

Then open GIMP and it should be found under Filters/Lights and Shadows in the GIMP menu.

Additionally, this script requires you to do something first before running it. You'll need to create a layer of Solid Noise - go to Filters/Render/Clouds/Solid Noise and for starters run it with default settings, then go to Filters/Lights and Shadows/Plasti-wrap and run it at default. Default means, the settings showing when you open it.

I hope this helps some.

I'm checking it out now.

Can't reply to all posts now, as it's getting busy. But this is what I get when I 'save', or try to save that .scm file in Text Edit on this Mac:

... and that's obviously not saving as a .scm file.

Let's ask Akky how she manages through this. It might take some time, perhaps you might send her a Private Message.

Is she reading this thread?

She shows online, so I'm sure she will eventually get to this thread. Patience.

I have patience, np. Cheers for the patience exhibited with me, I have to say.

heh heh, will since I have a mac I also want to know the answer. I've put in several scripts but cannot remember how!

I would say save it as "plasti-wrap.scm" with the quotes.

Others here I'm sure have mentioned Ice Fire script-fu. I like to invert, run Ice Fire and then invert again. Add some sparkles too; trust me.