Can you identify effects/filters used on this image?

[sallyanne]

Wondering if Linux_Beaver has a text filter that can help you?

[rich2005]

(02-01-2026, 08:43 PM)aye123 Wrote: ...snip....As for .abr brushes i have installed them, but brushes are manual work and what im most likely looking for is a font filter for text. You can zoom in on my original image and see that the lighter part of the text doesnt have one linear color and it just looks like floating smoke:



See how the bottom part of 'X' that reaches 'U' kind of splits in the middle part. 

This is not a job of a brush - it has to be a floating smoke font filter. 

The original image i created in late 2010/early 2011. According to google, the GIMP version of that period was the 2.0. Maybe as you said, in that version there was a filter that just isnt available anymore in the current version. 

I guess my best bet right now is to download GIMP 2.0 and look for what i want there.

It does resemble the original one, but im still missing that floating smoke effect on text filter.

I have been using Gimp since version 2.0.2 and your smoke effect is a separate overlay. Usually something like the noise (as earlier video) but might be painted in,  blurred and a layer mode.

You go and get any version you like: https://download.gimp.org/gimp/  look in the Windows section(s) As a quide Gimp 2.6 came in 2008 and Gimp 2.8 2012  There are a couple of old Gimp 2.8 scripts that still work with Gimp 2.10 ( but not Gimp 3 ) which might have been a base for the effect you require, but not a one-click-solution.  I do not know what you used, sorry my crystal ball is not working.

   

@sallyanne
There is a GEGL filter but not the effect the OP requires. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-GIMP...eon_border