I tried working on this image i posted earlier, because there is something i dont like about it, but i cant quite put my finger on it.

Is it because the perspective of the sunray does not go with the perspective of the text ?
I think my main complaint is the white outline, that i added for contrast, but it looks odd to me....

Tried using a trick learned from Phlearn (YT channel) and look at the image in b/w.
It looks good to me, with the exception that the white outline perhaps steals the show from the extruded text...

Maybe its really because the perspective of the text is odd. We are looking at the text from the top, but at the same time its extrusion is going up.

I find it really hard sometimes, making something look professional....



   

Made cartoon text after watching an Illustrator tutorial on YT. 
Mostly in 0.91, but tried a few new pre 0.92 LPE's for the warp effect.
Cool new feature for the Bend LPE is that it works with groups now (or at least i think thats new) and there is an additional width slider, which made the perspective warp possible.

   

Up-dating ubuntu Gimp 2.9.5 from otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-edge

and got this interesting splash screen

   

I wonder if there is an 'Autumn Leaf' anywhere inside, I can't find anything so far.

Gimp 2.9.5 looking good, the initial brush lag seems to have been fixed.

Same as lots of other people, could not resist a shot at the "super-moon". Best day (Monday) was horizon-to-horizon cloud. Last night was last chance for a couple of decades or so, eventually got a shot.

What to do with a very average shot of the moon? One way, paste it into an alien planet.

This one made with an old application, MojoWorld + the Earths moon.

   

My latest Restoration
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115367823@N05/31009882065/sizes/c/

Original size
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115367823@...5/sizes/o/

Every time i need to make a layer greyscaled, i need to load the layer as a whole new project, Image -> Mode -> greyscale, then convert back to RBG. Export it. Then load that image as a new layer to my project.

Can i simplify this more to just convert a layer to greyscale?

I guess its something like wingdings, but im unsure if wingdings 3 is a commercial font or not.

Want to make something like this with text along path.

   

This is a thread for GIMP 2.8 themes. They are NOT suitable for use on GIMP 2.10


The 32x32 Symbolic theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...-Big-32.7z

The 32x32 Colour Theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...olor-32.7z

The 48x48 Symbolic theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...-Big-48.7z

The 48x48 Colour Theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...olor-48.7z

The 32x32 Dark Symbolic theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...32-Dark.7z

The 48x48 Dark Symbolic Theme is here:
https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gi...48-Dark.7z


These are all archived in .7z format and will need to be extracted into your personal profile Themes folder.

Please use this thread to report any issues (missing icons etc)

Note that at present I cannot find any way to change the Document History icon.

There is also an issue with the default colours and swap colour icons: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739469 which limits how big they can be.

For comparison, the Default, Color-32 and Color-48 themes:
   

The symbolic themes:
   

The dark symbolic themes:
   

https://github.com/alexjc/neural-enhance

Bumpmapping is probably the classic way of bevelling text (the "modern way" is using layereffects).

One thing that always seemed a bit unrefined is that the blurred bumpmap spreads the bevel outside the text boundaries.

But there are ways to take bumpmapping to the next level, and reading the WOW Book just made me remember a few tricks.

1.) For the first example we bumpmap text into a grey (#8080808) layer.
The values im using are 120 for the Azimuth and 30 for the Elevation.

The bumpmap has a  Blur of 1px and im using a Depth of 3. We are getting an emboss effect.

   

2.) Here im using a Depth of 8 and an Ambient of 100. The bumpmap has been blurred 8px.
This is your basic bumpmapping technique.

   

3.) Now we are getting a bit clever and trim our edge. We are still using the 8px blurred bumpmap, but now we are calling up a selection of the original text, invert it and fill with black, so that we get a hard edge. On top of that we apply another Blur of 1px to smooth things out.
Heres what it looks like:

   

4.) For a chisel effect, we use our trimmed bumpmap, call up the original text selection and shrink it (i used 3px), then fill with white. This gives the blur an edge.

   

5.) For our final trick we apply a curve to the bumpmap, blur it by 4px to smooth everything out, and get this contoured edge: