Can you identify effects/filters used on this image?

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(01-31-2026, 07:33 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Did you even look at those .abr brushes ?  

Everything might have been Gimp scripts 10 years ago with Gimp 2.8 - neon text or alpha neon - but those are long gone.

Using additions to basic Gimp. If you want a plugin for neon there is the gimp_gmic_qt plugin, http://www.gmic.eu

For smoke painting in an overlay layer with layer mode luma lighten

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.

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(02-01-2026, 09:54 AM)sallyanne Wrote: This is what I  did with (font in the graphic)
1. Open a transparent layer
2. Add Text (253 pix)
3. While text layer is selected right click and click on layer to image size.
4. With the same layer selected add a new transparent layer.
5. Grow 4 pixels then turn selection into path, selection none.
6. Stroke path 6 pixels then gaussian blur the path. 
7. Duplicate that layer a few times. Drop below text layer if you want a clean text.
8. Add another layer the colour you want and drop it to the bottom. Merge layers

I did very similar work on the recreation. More specifically, i used one of the youtube tutorials: I used Alpha to Section On Text > Select - Grow to 3 > Fill with Color > 2 Layers 'Border' and 'Glow' > Repeat Alpha To Section, Grow to 3 and Fill with Color > Gaussian Blur

Ever since i did that, im trying to play with different filters and effects and this is how the image looks right now:





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