This effect looks best with a dark layer behind it so lets make the original layer of text visible.įor a shadow duplicate the top layer and fill it with black and lower it underneath the original blur by 11 and that look creates your shadow.You can move it ( the shadow layer) around to your liking. Select the transformation layer and the move tool, move it around to your liking. Make the new floating selection a layer (select new layer) Select the layer directly under shredpattern.gif layer Make the shredpattern.gif layer invisible. Right click the new opened layer and select alpha to selection all the black squares should be selected at once. When the status change to Done click the Download SVG button GIMP is a raster graphics editor application. Now download this pattern and open as layers - shredpattern.gif PNG itself does not support animation at all. Make all layers invisible except the top one and the white background layer. Select the top layer and go to Colors/Brightness and contrast put in these values Right click the top layer and select - new from visible again Now make all the other layers EXCEPT the white background layer visible again. (this is kind of like the cone setting in photo-shop) Your text should now be a nice chrome looking color like this.
#GIF KALEIDOSCOPE MAKER IN GIMP FULL#
You can then apply Gimp's Rotation tool to revolve several duplicates of the image to produce the full kaleidoscope. You can use Gimp's Paintbrush or Pencil tools for creating this image.
Make all layers invisible except the top one Creating a kaleidoscope effect in Gimp involves first making an image whose colours radiate brilliantly, as those of stained glass windows in cathedrals. Right click any layer and select - new from visible If you want to import the image into Frame Maker or some other page.
#GIF KALEIDOSCOPE MAKER IN GIMP MANUAL#
Go to Filters/blur/motion blur put in these values The Gimp User Manual will need further editing and proofing before its ready for. Right click the text layer select alpha to selection Go to Filters/Noise/HSV noise put in these values Make the top layer invisible (the bevel-layer) Go to Filters/Decor/Chisel - Put in these values Type your text - center it - (mine is gimp - chat) There are all kinds of GIF maker programs available on the Internet, and they provide different features for you to get. Times Roman font - nice older midevil looking font works - antialias - size 150-230 - color: 666666 (mine is 150 because of text length) Creating animated GIFs from videos is becoming more and more popular during these years, as it is a great way to kill time and make our life funny. You will need -Chisel.scm for this tutorial get it here Creating Shredded Steel Text in Gimp - 2.6.11