Thanks Pirate and Dalia, I didn't use the tute but I will maybe tomorrow.

Very nice molly! I like the combination of the silver with the glitter pattern.

Thanks Dalia I will read your tute tomorrow so I will know how you did the gold separate from the mother of pearl part. I sort of got burned out on long tutes so I will start up again. This one is very nice. and well written.

molly, I'll iterate, I'm not a tutorial writer and you may find my tut to be crazy once you read it. As I've said before, I'm humbled, especially because the comment came from you.

Thank you Dalia. The background wouldn't work for me, so I had to adlib.

I love your background Tony, it reminds me of the way they used to Roxotone cars with the feint gold dust in with the paint.

@Dalia, or (anyone) I have been trying to do this tutorial from scratch and I can't make it do the same things. My dialogues are completely different.
Mine are under Script-Fu > Layer Effects. They don't have any of the options that show in yours. Yours seem to be under Layers tab. I don't have any there.
I cant make it stroke the outline with a gradient. I must be doing something wrong cuz mine fills in the whole text instead of just the outline.



EDIT:
Never mind, I found the problem and I am leaving this post here for others that might have the Script-Fu instead of the Python-Fu installed. (This tutorial calls for (Python-Fu).
One is found under Layers and the other one under Script-Fu.

Voilà! Yes, it was listed under "materials" needed. By the way molly, I love your second rendition; it looks amazing with that background.

tonysteele, aside from the fact that you did beautifully on yours, your name just lends itself to the tutorial. Perfect.

Thanks, Dalia.

Beautiful job Carlos.

Cool background too, Carlos.

Okay, I finally finished this tute and it is great but I get very confused with all the layer groups and half I time I click the wrong one to run the filters on. I don't know if I should be clicking on the original layers or one that a filters has already run on.
Anyway this is the best I can do with Python layer effects.

Dodge Mode

Normal Mode

Carlos right on with that and the background is great. It inspires, for me anyway, medieval times. Nice job.

molly what can I say, beautiful outcome as well. I really like how you applied the texture/rustic appearance to your background.

Creativity well done. Thank you all for trying the tutorial.

Thank you Dalia, I am happy with those two.

My result and tutorial. Into the tutorial is present link for credit at original tutorial PS.

Welcome donGoGo thank you for posting the link to yours and your result is beautiful.

The one I followed was actually the following http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/qu ... -psd-18029

Yeah, also i have followed that tutorial, as I mentioned in my previous post

Nice work Molly!
I'd like to see that same effect you created with other fonts. Maybe you could show us how you did it?

Thanks Wallace, did you see the two I posted today with the dark backrounds?
viewtopic.php?p=131751#p131751

Those look great Molly!
I favor the "normal" mode one most, but there both really good.
This tut isn't for bringers, that's for sure. It's also good practice for our advanced users too.