Chrome Letter Tutorial

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that:

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:29 am **(#22)**

Nice tut,

here's what I came up with. I included the font, which wasn't easy to find.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:31 am **(#23)**

The Warrior wrote:

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Wallace wrote:

The Warrior wrote:

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

Inverted it, got rid of the stem, changed the rose to chrome, then colorfied it red. Reloaded the image, and got rid of the rose, changed it to chrome, and colorfied the stem green. About it really. Nice work btw Wallace.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:44 am **(#25)**

The Warrior wrote:

Wallace wrote:

The Warrior wrote:

Another rose, before and after. Crazy how you can make something so plain look like that.

Nice, you did color the rose before hand right?

Inverted it, got rid of the stem, changed the rose to chrome, then colorfied it red. Reloaded the image, and got rid of the rose, changed it to chrome, and colorfied the stem green. About it really. Nice work btw Wallace.

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great! :bigthup

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Wallace wrote:

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great! :bigthup

Colors>Colorify. Color Map options work great.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:52 am **(#27)**

The Warrior wrote:

Wallace wrote:

Aaaa, I see, nice results. You meant colorized, didn't you?

Thanks, I'm familiar with creating this text effect, but never thought to use those Color Map options. They work great! :bigthup

Colors>Colorify.

Oh....

It's late. :hehe

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Wallace wrote:

Oh....

It's late. :hehe

Keep on GIMPin'. :gimp

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:02 am **(#29)**

The Warrior wrote:

Keep on GIMPin'. :gimp

No bout adoubt it. :hehe

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Wallace wrote:

The Warrior wrote:

Keep on GIMPin'. :gimp

No bout adoubt it. :hehe

Yep, it's late. :hehe

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:31 am **(#31)**

The Warrior wrote:

Thanks everyone, appreciated. It's very easy to do, with nice results.

cecilia wrote:

I saved the color curve in so I don't have to remake it every time I do this: Chrome-Warrior

That's what i do as well. I have 9 different settings saved for chrome, haha.

@The Warrior: Thanks for sharing. :tyspin

Would you care to post your Chrome Presets?

If anyone else is interested in some more Chrome Curves, my memory serves me that Draconian previously posted some Chrome Presets in this thread here.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

fluffybunny wrote:

@The Warrior: Thanks for sharing. :tyspin

Would you care to post your Chrome Presets?

Sure, no problem.

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

i did it without the Alien Map as thats just another chrome curve on top, it seems to me

also i find the first steps a bit odd, when you extract the text selection from the bump-map with the colour-select tool...
i just save the alpha selected text to a channel, then duplicate it and blur by 5 for the bump map

nice effect overall !

if you are interested in the landscape-gradient-as-chrome-effect
i made a very long post about that on my blog recently:
http://gimp-science-labs.blogspot.de/20 ... -post.html

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

The Alien Map is like another curve, but it's an easy fix. Nice work, btw.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Nice tutorial, easy to follow.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Thanks He4rty, and nice work.

ek22 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:14 pm **(#37)**

e-book cover I made for an author friend, using your improved chrome technique. Works like a charm. :hehe

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

Very nice job EK, your friend will surely like that.

ek22 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:40 pm **(#39)**

I'm hoping so yeah. Maybe she'll like it enough to pass me around her circle of friends for more of this kind of thing.

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:57 pm **(#40)**

Did the script magician Graechan already think about scripting this tutorial?
(maybe he did it already and I don't find it...)