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Author: devvv
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Tutorial: Cool glowing text
Written by devvv (18 May 2007 11:10 PM)
In this tutorial I'll show you how to get this pretty nice glowing text effect using GIMP. In my opinion glowing text looks much better if you have text with a rounded font. Take a look at the rounded corners-tutorial if you want your special font to be rounded off.
- New file: 500x200px.
- Fill the background with black color.
- Take the text-tool and write any text you want onto a new layer. Use a font size of 60 for this at least.
- Layer / Layer to picture size. Now your text-layer should be renderend and have the same size as the whole picture.
click to enlarge - The next step is to create a strong outer glow.
- Click the layer with your right mouse button in the layers dialog menu. Choose "Selection from Alpha".
- Select / Grow: 3px
- Add a new layer, name it "schein nach aussen" (which measn outer glow in German ;)).
- Fill the selection on this layer with #007eff
- In the layers dialog move the layer behind the text-layer
click to enlarge - - Select / None (CTRL SHIFT A)
- Filter / Blur / Gaussian: 45px.
- Duplicate the layer and apply a gaussian blur again: 30px.
click to enlarge - My layers look like this now:
click to enlarge - Click the glowing text-layer in the layers dialog to activate it.
- duplicate it
- on the duplicate apply another gaussian blur. Take a value of 15.
- Set the layers mode (found in the layers dialog at the very top above the opacity) to "Dodge".
click to enlarge - - Duplicate the "schein nach außen" / "other glow"-layer.
- in the layers dialog move it to the top of all layers, so thats it is above all the other layers. Set the layers mode to "Dodge" again. This step makes the glow effect even stronger ;)
Thats it. Have fun with your own glowing text!
click to enlarge
This work is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria.
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From: Anonymous (24 Aug 2008 12:42 AM)
Okay, cool tutorial, but I've got Gimp 2, which is fine, I can translate. But I add the new layer with a new color, put it behind the text, and I get white text on top of my colored layer...not with a colored border on black. What am I doing wrong?
From: Torbjorn (16 Aug 2008 12:32 AM) – Send a private message
Go to File --> Dialogues --> Layers, in the main window of Gimp, or hit the shortcut Ctrl + L.
From: Somebody (12 Aug 2008 01:32 AM)
I can't find the layers dialog box!
From: neb (20 Apr 2008 09:00 AM)
Thanks this rocks!
From: devvv (18 Apr 2008 12:28 PM) – Send a private message
its not a special font - any sans serif font will be fine - i did the rounded corners technique (under "Techniques" at the tutorial overview page) to get it look like this
From: Rundo0o (17 Apr 2008 12:37 PM)
Thanx, I have one more question.. What font did you use?
From: devvv (17 Apr 2008 12:06 PM) – Send a private message
look in menu Selection / Grow
From: Rundo0o (17 Apr 2008 12:04 PM)
Where can i find Grow?
From: devvv (16 Apr 2008 04:34 PM) – Send a private message
make a new seperate layer atop all, the fill it with the color of your choice. set the layers mode to "color", the it should be the color of your choice.
From: Kain (16 Apr 2008 03:20 PM)
Okay, I follow this step by step, and it comes out alright, not good, but not to bad. Anyway, how do I change the glow's color? Instead of it being the color of the words, I want it to be a different color.
From: devvv (16 Apr 2008 11:18 AM) – Send a private message
that is a hex-color code! you can set the color when you click the foreground/background-color - to the right you can set this color.
From: Kain (16 Apr 2008 07:15 AM)
I'm doing good so far, but whats #007eff???
From: ariana (17 Mar 2008 09:56 PM)
wow
From: Krueger (04 Mar 2008 03:20 AM)
Thanks alot, great job.
From: Paradox (24 Feb 2008 09:31 AM)
I can do that a different way in 39 seconds exactly but that is what i started with. Thanks!
From: JOHN VARGHESE (11 Feb 2008 08:21 PM)
thanks its cool
From: coche (17 Jan 2008 08:59 PM) – Send a private message
great tutorial thanks!
From: la queen (04 Nov 2007 11:03 PM)
datz hot
From: Sean (17 Aug 2007 12:22 AM)
I couldn't find anything from 2. Where's it?
From: Dan (09 Jul 2007 01:31 PM)
Awesome shizzle! I love it! :D
From: bivins92 (04 Jul 2007 03:08 AM)
This is pretty cool.
From: devvv (04 Jun 2007 09:26 PM) – Send a private message
yes lightdreamer, thats a fact of nature - all things have better glow on dark background ;)
From: lightdreamer (04 Jun 2007 06:47 PM)
Doesn't look good on a white background. Somehow, when I use the gaussian blur, it goes gray.
From: Hey you (04 Jun 2007 04:39 AM)
Hey you, yes, you with the avy and siggy!
Don't touch my mossy or I will send you back to lumby.
I love bunnies
From: Blood (02 Jun 2007 01:50 AM)
nice tuts very nice.
imma use it for my next sig or avi.
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