How to Post a Tutorial

Subject: How to Post a Tutorial Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:09 pm

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Jewelry Text Tutorial

Overview

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Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes

What We Are Making

Today we will be making this image:

The Instructions

1. Go to File>Create>Logos>SOTA Chrome, type in the text that you wish, and make these your settings:

You should have this so far:

2. Delete the top layer, titled "Chrome".

3. Right click on the "Highlight" layer and click Apply Layer Mask (Layer>Mask>Apply Layer Mask). Next, make a selection using the Rectangle Selection Tool that covers all of the text, but none of the border.

4. Go to Select>Invert and Edit>Cut (same as pressing ctrl+i and ctrl+x) on the "Highlight" layer. Now go to the "Drop Shadow" layer and go to Edit>Cut (same as pressing ctrl+x). You can now go to Select>None (same as pressing ctrl+shift+a).

5. On the "Highlight" layer right click and press Alpha To Selection (Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection). Then, go to Select>Shrink and shrink the selection by 5 pixels.

6. Make a new layer and put it on the very top of the layers (I would name it "Diamond") and fill it with white (#ffffff). Next, go to Filters>Noise>HSV Noise on the new layer. Make these your settings:

You should now have this:

7. Go to Filters>Distorts>Emboss and make these your settings:

You should now have this:

8. Go to Select>None (ctrl+shift+a). Then, go to Filters>Map>Bump Map. The settings should be- Bump Map: (your top layer), Map Type: Linear, and check off "Invert Bumpmap". The settings should be:

Now you should have:

9. Right click on the top layer and press "Alpha To Selection" (Select>Transparency>Alpha To Selection). Next, make a new layer and put it on top of all the other layers. Fill the selection in the new layer with the pattern "Electric Blue" (it automatically comes with Gimp). Now go to Select>None (ctrl+shift+a). Then, go to Colors>Desaturate and check off "Lightness". Finally, go to Colors>Levels and make these your settings:

Now your image should look like this:

10. On the top layer, change the layer mode to "Hard Light".

11. Go to the second-to-top layer and then go to Colors>Levels and make these your settings:

You should now have:

12. Make a new layer and put it on top all the other layers. Fill it with black (#000000). Go to your brush tool (make sure that white is your foreground color) and use the "Diagonal Star (25)" brush (it comes with Gimp). Now, set the layer mode to "Screen". Now brush in various places, the edge of a letter is the best spot, about in about 5 different places to make the text sparkle and stand out.

13. Go to the background layer and then go to Colors>Brightness-Contrast and set the Brightness to -100 and the Contrast to 40.

14. Go back to the top layer and go to Colors>Levels and make these your settings:

You should have something similar to this:

15. Pick your "Highlight" layer and then go to Colors>Hue-Saturation. Set Hue to 2, Lightness to 25, and Saturation to 16.

You have finished!

The Finished Result

I hope this tutorial helped you guys!

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