Glass text tutorial

pirate541 · **Joined:** May 27, 2011 **Posts:** 707

Mike

Should have told me about laundry,I need mine done too

I appreciate Your answer,it works fine if I am adding a word on a background,but what I am trying to do is
"glass" a background only,no words involved

Mikechat · **Joined:** May 23, 2012 **Posts:** 150

pirate541

i don't know if this will help or not or you maybe
you have already thought of this but, select just the words,
then do select invert that will select every thing,
but the words.
have a nice day!

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

pirate541 wrote:

Mike

Should have told me about laundry,I need mine done too

I appreciate Your answer,it works fine if I am adding a word on a background,but what I am trying to do is
"glass" a background only,no words involved

Pirate, that glass script that Tux posted is also very good for making see through glass, check his post and look at the different images he posted. viewtopic.php?p=108#p108 script viewtopic.php?p=108#p108

Dutch · **Joined:** Nov 29, 2014 **Posts:** 19

My turn:

Here is a Gameboy

Erisian wrote:

There are probably hundreds of tutorials on glass text but this method is one I discovered by accident when I was trying to do something entirely different.

What were you trying to make?

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:14 am **(#105)**

GIMP CHAT is like Pandora's Box - once opened the inspirational threads just keeps flowing ... combined both the tut and the script in this one.

Once again thanks to those who provide these facilities.

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:25 am **(#106)**

Nice work DutchPlays and oldmangrumpy.

DutchPlays wrote:

What were you trying to make?

I can't remember now - probably something metallic.

Dutch · **Joined:** Nov 29, 2014 **Posts:** 19

Erisian wrote:

I can't remember now - probably something metallic.

Okay.

el_vallarta1 · **Joined:** Oct 23, 2014 **Posts:** 10

I'm using gimp 2.8 and commands are different from what your version did you use in this work have had some problems, you could update it with gimp 2.8, if so thanks is a good job mexico

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:44 am **(#109)**

Every time I do it I miss a step.. will try again later today

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:23 pm **(#110)**

I've enjoyed doing your tutorial one more time. I love the effect it produces. Thanks Erisian. :tyspin

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:53 pm **(#111)**

Nice results Issabella. Which font is that?

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:56 pm **(#112)**

Thank you Erisian.
The font used is Alamak.

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:01 pm **(#113)**

Thank you Issabella. Another nice font to add to my collection.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:22 am **(#114)**

I have tried this several times now and am still not getting it quite right - will post my results

Couldn't get it quite shiny enough or the distortion right. I went for ripple in the end.

tried again.

Can you please update your tutorial for 2:10, if is much different? or show us what we need to be doing for the latest gimp version. I could be making mistakes but I and those coming after will need it more up to date.
Thanks for the tutorial Erisian.

If you do just change the pdf and comment that you have updated it - thanks.

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:07 am **(#115)**

sallyanne wrote:

Can you please update your tutorial for 2:10, if is much different? or show us what we need to be doing for the latest gimp version. I could be making mistakes but I and those coming after will need it more up to date.
Thanks for the tutorial Erisian.

If you do just change the pdf and comment that you have updated it - thanks.

I planned to do this when I saw that people were still interested.

Nidhogg · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:23 am **(#116)**

I think it works okay in 2.10. My bevel is just small because of bigger image and text.

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Too shiny. Broken Glass from Dafont.

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Qruqs · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2014 **Posts:** 97

Play this and it makes sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dpiIzYQ5g