Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Gimper on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 00:28.

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I remember a while back one of our forum members asked how to engrave text in GIMP, well this GIMP tutorial will show you how.

The technique is quite simple once you learn how its done, so lets get started.

Step 1

Create a new image and fill the background layer with Brown 382600, looks allot like chocolate :) .

Gimp tutorial image1

Step 2

Select the Text tool and type in some text, you can use what ever font you wish i chose a free font called Tando

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Step 3

Now Right click on the text layer and click on "Alpha to selection", this should create a selection around our text.

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Step 4

Select the Background layer to which we will apply the engraved text to, then go to "Filters>Map>Bump Map" and apply the same settings as shown in the screenshot

Gimp tutorial image4

once you have all the settings right hit OK then deselect the selection by going to "Select None" and finally deleting our no longer needed text layer. that's it you should be seeing the exact same result as mine. :)

Gimp tutorial image5

Attached XCF file can be download below.

If you liked this post, you can buy me a coffee, thanks

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Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Chandrashekar (not verified) on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 04:49.

Thanks for the effect tutorial. For a long time
I've been visiting your site expecting a new tutorial..
Almost a month since your last post!
Thanks again.

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Gimper on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 04:53.

thanks Chandrashekar, i know i haven't been as active :/
tutorial ideas are getting strained none the less i want to promise my self that ill publish at least one tutorial per week :)

if you have any tutorial requests let me know.
thanks for the comment.

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Simon North (not verified) on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 11:39.

Yeah, I've noticed that the site wasn't getting updated as well, good job gimper.net is still active. Thanks for the tutorial, I've added it to howtogimp.com (http://howtogimp.com/2008/06/05/engraved-text-effect-in-the-gimp/)

Simon

Nice. It would be nice to

Submitted by Dahey (not verified) on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 20:37.

Nice.

It would be nice to see how the coffee cup at the bottom of the page was made.

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by luvanimemt (not verified) on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 03:41.

I would like to know how you would make a cd icon. An example of the icon would be at gimp's main tutorial webpage, but alas, they only show you how to make a tv icon, which isn't very useful in my case.

u should do a tut on the

Submitted by lolzlolz on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 22:40.

u should do a tut on the vista lines or better yet i could convert it for you because it seemed fairly simple for a ps to gimp conversion and i've never converted a tut so i need a simple one to start on, pm me if youd like me to, or i'll just do it :P

hey there, Gimp was a scary

Submitted by Doli (not verified) on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 02:57.

hey there,

Gimp was a scary tool for me when i started. but the tutorials made it easy going for me.. it didn't only get me started with Gimp but now i can work my way around it.. everytime i come here i find something enlightening. feels good.. thanks a lot :)

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Gimper on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 07:47.

@Doli,thanks for the kind words.

@lolzlolz it would be great if you could.

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:49.

This is actually embossed text, not engraved text. But all the same, I was wondering. Thanks! :)

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by Gimper on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:52.

looks engraved to me :) i might be wrong.

Re: Engraved Text with GIMP

Submitted by swantonbomb88 on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 00:31.

nice gimper

hey there everyone :) i have

Submitted by skyler (not verified) on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 18:05.

hey there everyone :)
i have always lurked this site and soaked up every bit of info i could from the tutorials, and i have to say, i am so grateful for all of the kind members that are here to help. this is just me saying thank you to everyone, and you too gimper, because you are always contributing to the enormous database of tutorials.

cheers :D

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