No, I've never seen it. But I could probably find some scrolly font somewhere. I was just hoping that maybe there was in index of how to make some of the headings that appear here. There have been some others I've seen too that I would dearly like to have instructions for. As far as it being not hard to reproduce, I think you may be forgetting that I'm the one who couldn't turn a square picture into an oval one without help. :-/ Ah well. It certainly is a nice one. So are the all-chrome and especially the all-gold ones I've seen. Thanks for looking though. I wish I knew a fraction of what you seem to know about Gimp.

It's a Rothenburg font: http://www.myfontfree.com/rothenburg-de ... f51549.htm

I have been looking for instructions for that beautiful script also. It was posted as an example of bevel reflect logo 1.6 by GnuTux. I don't know what e-map he used to make it look like pearl. I'm not sure how often he visits the forum anymore. Hopefully, someone will know.

A good start would be to work through some of the text tutorials by conbagui in the Gimp Chat Tutorials Index.

Type your text into the Bevel Reflect Logo script, choose the font, and the emap, in this case, gold. Alpha to selection the result, shrink the selection by however many pixels, create a new layer, fill with pattern, then select the layer mode. It's the same technique I used for this result:

I've downloaded the script, I'm off to teach myself what an emap is, then I'm going to attempt it. It looks so great, one way or another I'm going to get it onto one of my book covers. Maybe the one where the guy's kidnapped by space aliens... or not. Thank you for the info.

Great looking results Warrior.

Why thank you sir.

newtogimp: no need to refer to yourself as dumb, when you're obviously not . don't worry, if some of the other members here seem to know a lot that you don't know it's because they've spent a lot of time learning and most of them have also got good help here.

i'm quite sure that particular effect features in one of conbagui's tutorials, so take another look in that link odinbc posted. he (or whoever it was wrote the tutorial) did this without the bevel reflect technique.

now, about the bevel reflect technique: you will need two different things installed to do what warrior did above. first, you need the ml bevel reflect plug-in, which you just install into your plug-ins folder. then, if you want to do exactly what he did, you will need gnu-tux's bevel reflect logo script, which you download into your scripts folder. on top of that, you will need a good emap (in this case gold).

an emap is simply an image (and in the case of the ml bevel reflect plug-in, a spherical image) that the plug-in uses to create the actual effect with reflections. you can download a suitable one in this thread: environment map sharing thread - it's a long thread and there are a lot of beautiful emaps to choose from, so don't drown in them . just download one and remember where it is saved (i have a separate subfolder called emaps in my image folder), so you can load the right one when you run the bevel reflect logo filter.

after you have all this in correct folders, you may still need some help to get the same result warrior got. the bevel reflect logo support thread is here: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9650&hilit=bevel+reflect+logo and if you read that through you may well find you have the answers you need, if not just ask again. good luck!

I found this tut with a site search. It looks like what you want to do, you would just need to find the proper colors.

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10717&start=0&hilit=rothenburg+Tutorial

Thank you, but I've gotten really stumped on trying to make this text.

I googled bevel reflect logo and found Wallace's tutorial where he goes to Filters>Alpha to Select>Bevel Reflect Logo and I did that but I had no Bevel Reflect Logo there. I figured that must mean it's a plug in I don't have so I looked for it, found the registry, downloaded it, and I have it now in my computer as a zip file. I found the instructions for loading a plug in into Gimp which were Open the zip file by copying to clipboard (R click copy) then go to Gimp and double cl the plug in folder. That's where I got stumped, I don't know what "double click the plug in folder" means. In other words I couldn't figure out how to plug in a plug in (I've never done that before).

Your tutorial looks great but it starts out with 'copy my paisley background' but there aren't any instructions how to do that. Also, I think I probably need that plug in to make it work. I'm kinda flustered. :-/

newtogimp: hehe, i sometimes think gimp needs a "don't panic!" cover, like the hithchhiker's guide to the gaalaxy. don't be flustered, take a deep breath and start again. start by reading the full instructions to conbagui's tutorial in the link bilbo posted. you don't need the bevel reflect logo script for that, but you do need the layer effects script. that is a script, you download it to your scripts folder in your gimp user folder - if you need help knowing exactly how to do that, give us a shout and i'm sure someone will help you.

after that, you need to download the material zip folder that conbagui provided in the tutorial post. that contains the paisley background and you can start by opening that background in gimp, no need to copy it. i don't know where you read "copy", i clearly read "open" in the tutorial on gimp chat, but maybe you're reading from a pdf and that is worded differently? in any case, no need to worry about copying, just open the paisley background in gimp.

thank you both. I'm sorry to be such a pain. Right now I have ML Bevel Reflect C File downloaded in my plug in file. I don't know whether it is a .exe or a .scm because I can' t find anything on its properties except it is a c file (it's a zip file). I go to the registry and click the Bevel Reflect Plug In which takes me to the Bevel Reflect Logo Script which just takes me back to the Bevel Reflect Plug in. I'm going to keep trying though (although I'm starting to think it might be akin to a space alien reciting poetry to me...).

newtogimp: oh dear, not a vogon, i hope?!*hides behind sofa*
again: don't panic. you need to unzip the file first of all. if it is in your plug-ins folder you have it in the right spot, so just unzip and move the original zip file and any readme:s or other things to another folder, just keep the .exe file in the zip. when that's done, restart gimp.
when that's done too, go to this place: brl on gimp scripts, scroll down to the dowload button and download that to your scripts folder.
but honestly, while i can see the allure of the bevel reflect technique, but for a beginner downloading the layer effects scripts and just following conbagui's tutorial would be far easier!

edit: wallace says exactly what i said but more neatly. listen to him.

Got it. It's so easy once you figure it out. Thanks, Wallace. I was using the 64 instead of the 32 and my Windows Smartscreen (whatever that is) was silently sabotaging me without telling me.
I had to put in another one (layers.scm) for the tutorial and that one took like twenty seconds, now knowing how. Heh, I get there in the end!

newtogimp: glad to hear you got everything installed, good luck working the filters !

I knew you would eventually figure it out.