molly, there is a link to an english version right on the top of the tutorial
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/gimp/Ed/frozen/

Sorry Esper, I couldn't see for looking.

That looks good Graechan. I did it last night and was lost on step 5 so there it sits on my desktop. I almost tore my hair out.

Link comes up with a server error

Its okay Graechan. I tried the one that Odin converted and I also tried the U1, U2, U3 one. I am completely out to sea on both of them. I scrapped both of them and they are now sitting in the trash barrel.

molly, was that a temporary thing? it works fine for me.

Yes. The frozen text is a tutorial.

Frozen Text

Yes Mike, that is the one I just tried. I got as far as U2.

the german tut is a pretty overcomplicated, badly structured tutorial and i must apologize for posting it
here is a translation of the german text - i hope i made no mistake

1. white BG 400x100px, black text, merge down
2. duplicate three times and make them all invisible, except the one on the top
3. Gaussian Blur top layer by 7, invert, duplicate and then turn off
4. create a new black layer on top, apply RGB Noise 0,6
5. set the mode to 'Burn' and merge down
6. apply Sparkle filter to the merged down layer:
Luminosity: 0,06
Flare Intensity: 0,4
Spike Length: 40
Spike Points: 6
Spike Angle: 15
colorize the rays by changing the gamma value (layers/color/value):
red:1
green: 3
blue: 4
Note by translator: it appears this can be done with colourise on default values
duplicate and turn off the top layer
7. set the lower layer to 'Addition', activate the top layer of the duplicated original layer (thats copy#1), invert and turn the eye on
8. merge down both visible layers and apply Threshold 140/255, then invert and duplicate
9. offset the lower of the duplicated layers by 5 right and 3 down, Gaussian Blur by 5, set the mode of the top layer to 'Burn', merge down and then turn off the eye
10. now we use another of the duplicated original layers, invert, offset by 4/2 and Gaussian Blur by 5. the last duplicated original layer is made visible, set to 'Burn'
11. we combine the result with the Ice layer by using it as a layermask
12. [description of the layermask effect]
13. turn on the shadow layer and set the mode to 'Addition'

as far as i understand the ice effect is more or less complete in step 6, when you Colourize and the rest is just the shadow and the text effect



white layer black text, RGB Noise and then Spike Points to the max (16)

my pleasure Graechan, glad it was helpful

i played around some more

merge black text with white BG, Blur by 2, RGB Noise max, invert text selection, fill with black, apply Sparkle filter:
Luminosity: 0,06
Flare Intensity: 0,4
Spike Length: 20
Spike Points: 16
Spike Angle: -1
Spike Density: 0,12
Preserve Luminosity

DA Silver's Ice texture and the flame clone trick from tutor4u's ice text tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prsdDtXxkRE