The thing to remember is to use a grey gradient across the text/picture. Then bump map that, then play with the levels. Make sure you have a fully black and white blurred picture to use as a bumpmap. I've often gone wrong by just blurring white text/shapes on a transparent background, which doesn't work very well, if at all.

I use this effect quite a lot in my stuff. I'm no hacker or GIMP expert either, but if you follow that tutorial on http://gug.sunsite.dk to the letter then you should be fine.

Tom

On Wednesday 21 Jul 2004 12:33, Gearoid Donnellan wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for reposting this but not sure if the first one arrived and I also just read the bit about not adding large attachments to files. Could anyone let me know how to replicate the effect shown in the images here http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~drakon/images/

I have been trying to replicate an effect I have used in Photoshop with the Filter>Sketch>Chrome Tool that it has but I havent been successful. I have tried to apply the tomcat chrome text tutorial but Im a noob to gimp so I may have been doing it wrong

The first image is banner1.png The second is the photoshop tool and the third is roughly what the end result should look like.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This could be good, IF I could find the tutorial you mention. Can you give us the title, the URL, or a term to search for? I tried searching for "Chrome" and for "bumpmap." Both came up dry. Thanks.

The thing to remember is to use a grey gradient across the text/picture.

Then

bump map that, then play with the levels. Make sure you have a fully black and white blurred picture to use as a bumpmap. I've often gone wrong by just

blurring white text/shapes on a transparent background, which doesn't work very well, if at all.

I use this effect quite a lot in my stuff. I'm no hacker or GIMP expert either, but if you follow that tutorial on http://gug.sunsite.dk to the letter then you should be fine.

Tom

On Wednesday 21 Jul 2004 12:33, Gearoid Donnellan wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for reposting this but not sure if the first one arrived and I also just read the bit about not adding large attachments to files. Could anyone let me know how to replicate the effect shown in the images here http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~drakon/images/

I have been trying to replicate an effect I have used in Photoshop with the Filter>Sketch>Chrome Tool that it has but I havent been successful. I have tried to apply the tomcat chrome text tutorial but Im a noob to gimp so I may have been doing it wrong

The first image is banner1.png The second is the photoshop tool and the third is roughly what the end result should look like.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Mongoose wrote:

This could be good, IF I could find the tutorial you mention.  Can you give us the title, the URL, or a term to search for?  I tried searching for "Chrome"

This one looks ok:

http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=gimp_tutorial_metallic_text&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Also, try thse keywords

gimp chrome bump

Quite a few pop up.

Cheers