Broken Text Tutorial

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Lyle introduced us to mediamilitia.com for the freebies. I decided to take a peek at their tutorials and came across a few interesting ones. I decided to try out the Broken text tutorial. There are a few big gaps in this tutorial, which involve applying the spraypaint brushes, so I decided to stray just a little bit.

Tutorial is for Photoshop, but translates well for GIMP. Found here: http://mediamilitia.com/how-to-create-broken-text/

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

very impressive mav.....

I copied the tute and the abr brushes. Every time I try to use the brush from the tute, GIMP locks up. Do these brushes need to be changed to a different name OR does that brush come with a Gimp ext.?

Also, where do I find raster size in GIMP?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:08 pm **(#3)**

Interesting tutorial mahv.

I didn't download the brush. I made my splats with this font.
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=rhesus+A

Any resemblance between my image and the actual tutorial is coincidental and not necessarily accidental. :mrgreen:

I see now that I should have made the path fall between the second story and the body of the a.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16126

I just made a new doc filled with white
Created a new text layer
Used the rec tool to select a broken part of the top half of text.
Cut and pasted it into its own layer.
Alpha to select both text layers and used the Filters/Light and Shadows/Glossy 3-D filter on them.
Looks kinda cool. :clap

Even better with both text layers invisible.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16126

wow that was weird O
my post went inside yours!

I fixed it though! heheh

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:52 pm **(#6)**

Rod wrote:

Alpha to select both text layers and used the Filters/Light and Shadows/Glossy 3-D filter on them.
Looks kinda cool. :clap

Sure does, Rod. Very cool.

Rod wrote:

wow that was weird O
my post went inside yours!

Huh? Where?

Rod wrote:

I fixed it though! heheh

Whew! Think I've caught up to you Rod in all that.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16126

...my edit to add - "even better with text layers invisible" - It went into your first post.
I moved it real quick though. =)

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:56 pm **(#8)**

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16126

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Molly: In the Gimp, create an empty layer just below the one you want to rasterize and then right click on the new layer and choose “Merge Down”. This will rasterize the layer and merge it.

The abr file with the spray paint brushes is HUGE, it makes my GIMP lock up. I moved it out of my GIMP brushes after I was done using it. Way too big for me.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:38 pm **(#11)**

Rod wrote:

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

the brush was called media militia-graffiti.abr and it was 27,540 KB. I dumped it, and thanx mav for the info on how to rasterize.... that is kewl

tonysteele · **Posted:** Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:59 pm **(#13)**

Old tutorial, but thanks to everyone from GIMPchat and all their great tutorials I was able to follow a ps tutorial. Thank you again everyone. :tyspin

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

tonysteele wrote:

Old tutorial, but thanks to everyone from GIMPchat and all their great tutorials I was able to follow a ps tutorial. Thank you again everyone. :tyspin

nice tony ! tasty use of splatterbrushes !

the original PS tut has a dropshadow with a ring-contour

you do that by:

01. alpha select text
02. create a new transparent layer below the textlayer and fill the selection with black
03. deselect
04. gaussian blur (8 for example)
05. call up the curves tool and set the channel to alpha (!)
06. shape the curve like you see in the image below and press 'OK'

more info on contours, here:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6518

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:26 am **(#15)**

tonysteele: nice job! :bigthup

tonysteele · **Posted:** Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:28 pm **(#16)**

Esper wrote:

tonysteele wrote:

Old tutorial, but thanks to everyone from GIMPchat and all their great tutorials I was able to follow a ps tutorial. Thank you again everyone. :tyspin

nice tony ! tasty use of splatterbrushes !

the original PS tut has a dropshadow with a ring-contour

you do that by:

01. alpha select text
02. create a new transparent layer below the textlayer and fill the selection with black
03. deselect
04. gaussian blur (8 for example)
05. call up the curves tool and set the channel to alpha (!)
06. shape the curve like you see in the image below and press 'OK'

[ Image ]

more info on contours, here:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6518

Thanks Esper I'll Give it another try using curves.

tonysteele · **Posted:** Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:28 pm **(#17)**

AnMal wrote:

tonysteele: nice job! :bigthup

Thank you.