Engraved Text with GIMP

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.

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.

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 see how the coffee cup at the bottom of the page was made.

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 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 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 :)

@Doli,thanks for the kind words.

@lolzlolz it would be great if you could.

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

looks engraved to me :) i might be wrong.

nice gimper

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

hey . i still cant understand step 3 ..
can someone teach me how ?

please use the forum so more gimp users get a chance to help you out.

Cool tut Gimper
Handy too make signatures

Good tut. Nice gimper, cool!! Thanks.

:O
It looks like a candy bar!

wooooow

I'm sorry, but I just can't get this to work. I've got an .xcf with several layers, but when I try follow these steps on the background layer, nothing happens. When I remove the text layer there's nothing there. Has anybody any idea where I'm going wrong? (It works fine if I just add text to an image that contains a single layer with a plain background)

Very nice tut!
Only 1 thing: The font you used isn't Tando, it's Tondo ;)
Tando is a Naturist Club..

@ MyBest23 lol thanks for noticing :) *Fixed

Though I followed you instructions, my Bump-Map looks totally massed up and not as good as your result is showing.
Im using V 2.6.4, just have a look.
Settings ->
http://npshare.de/files/cc76aa69/bumpmap_settings.png

result ->
http://npshare.de/files/9ff9340f/wrong_bumpmap.png

Hope someone can help me.

Hi Gimper. Like your tutorial, but the visitor above was correct - this is embossed text not engraved. Engraved would be going down into the surface, not raised up above it as this is (see the shadows for example - they are on the surface, impossible if the text was engraved).

Keep up the good work :)

just want to point out, rather pedantically i suppose, that it could be viewed both as embossed or engraved depending on the way one looks at it.
take the necker cube illusion as an example.

on another note, i've unfortunately had trouble with this tut. it worked for me on a freshly opened document, but on trying to use it on another file of mine, i had no success... :( can't quite figure out why.