Purple - The Tutorial

The original purple text was just an accident, when i tried to make more gold from "innards" and put a purple outer glow underneath it.
Well it landed on top and to my surprise it looked good.
Btw, i experience that a lot, that after stripping a texteffect of most stuff, and just leaving the bare bones, you get something very different, that often looks equally good.

Original version posted on Gimpchat

Folks seemed to like the effect, so i had to write a tutorial
;)

Enjoy !

More Golden Richness Experiments

Crystal

Some glassy text i made last week and forgot about.
Looks good enough to post i think.

Its based on Erisian`s Glass Text tutorial on Gimpchat. There is also a pdf attached to the thread.

Basically its just bumpmapping text into a grey layer and then applying chrome curves. After that get rid of the grey with colour to alpha.

This texteffect is based on Oregonian`s Shiny Text tutorial. 

Its very similar to the Glass Text effect.

Pluton

I made some gold text by mutating Erisian's innards technique and wanted to write a tutorial about it, but cant exactly replicate what i did yesterday. 

Instead i got amber today....

The Power of Megablast-Gradients

Tutorial: 3D Text Videogame-Style

How to do a video games-esque 3D text with Gimp and Inkscape.