3-D Text in GIMP

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3-D Text in GIMP

Post by albero1 » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:46 pm

I was messing around with GIMP and accidentally found out how to make 3-D text. :P I hope it's clear enough. :D

I would post what it looks like, but my computer is being naughty. *sigh*
EDIT: I got it to work!!!
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1. Open your picture in GIMP. This one is 482x158 pixels.
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2. Click the letter "A" in the toolbox. Drag it over your picture to create a text box. After you've written your text, choose your text color, font, and text size. I think that doing a font color really close to the background color looks really cool.

3. Click on the little cross-thingy in the toolbox and move your text to the place you want it to go.
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4. On the layers dock, make sure the text is selected.

5. Go to the top of GIMP and select Filters>Light and Shadow>Xach Effect.

6. This should pop up:
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Make sure it looks like mine.

7. Click "Okay".

8. There'll be moving lines all around the text.

9. Go to Select>None at the top of GIMP.

10. The moving lines'll disappear.

11. Go to File>Name your graphic>Save.

That's it!
Last edited by albero1 on Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: 3-D Text in GIMP

Post by Ariel.of.Narnia » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:29 am

(Is this 3D or drop shadow...?)
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Re: 3-D Text in GIMP

Post by albero1 » Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:08 pm

3-D. :D
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Re: 3-D Text in GIMP

Post by smaug » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:29 pm

like cool man
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