1. Create the text in black with the text tool, and maybe adjust the canvas size around it
   
2. Duplicate the text layer (icon at bottom of Layers list)
   
3. Add a new layer filled with white (name it "BumpMap")
   
4. In the Layers list, drag it under the top copy of the text layer
   
5. Select the top copy of the text layer and Layer>Merge down. You will obtain a layer with your text on white.
   
6. Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and apply a blur of about 1/4 of the character thickness
   
7. Create the "surface" by adding a new layer (call it "Bottom") and filling it with the required color (you can also use a slight radial gradient)
   
8. Duplicate that layer and rename the copy to "Top" (double-click the name to edit it, [enter] when done)
   
9. With "Top" selected:  Filters>Map>BumpMap.  In the "Map" selector,select the "BumpMap" layer, keep all defaults, and [OK]. Your top ayer should now have the text engraved in it.
   
10. Right-click the initial text layer, and select Alpha to selection (you should have the "marching ants" running along the text outline)
    
11. Make sure the Top layer is selected and hit [Delete] (or Edit>Clear). This will remove a good deal of the shadows.
    
12. Select>None
    
13. Filters>Light and shadows>Drop shadow:
    • Offsets: use about a third of the character thickness,
      
    • Blur radius: use roughly a half of the character thickness
      
    • Opacity 60% is OK.
      
14. This creates a a new "Drop shadow" layer between top and bottom, and you can adjust the opacity with the "Opacity" slider at the top of the layers list and the offsets by moving it with the Move tool (set to "Move the active layer")
    

1. Open your texture image
   
2. Add the text layer
   
3. Position/crop both layers
   
4. Create the bumpmap layer as above
   
5. Duplicate the texture layer
   
6. Apply bumpmap to top layer
   
7. Punch out the text on the top layer
   
8. Apply drop shadow to top layer
   
9. Possibly shift the bottom layer a bit so that the pattern on it is slightly offset
   

   

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Hi

Ive just moved over from ps to gimp and am having difficulties with one thing.

When working with text layers, after a few further changes to the document, some layers will not allow me to go back in and change the text.  The layer preview icon goes to a chequerboard and it is as if the layer has been rasterised or locked somehow..

Am i doing something stupid or doesnt GIMP allow you to...

Soph


EDIT - I appear to have solved it, by clicking on the layer then clicking on the text with the text tool, i then get an option to edit the text...

Hello,

Looks like this may be related to missing native X11 support but does anyone know if there is a plugin that allows images to be saved as xpm files in MacOS Sierra? 

Thanks.

Hello, so I'm going to try and describe what is happening as best as I can. 

I have a Huion 190GT Tablet and I've been using Gimp for quite a few years for art. I have the latest version and latest drivers for my tablet supplied by on Huion's website. 
I shortcut my Undo command (Ctrl Z) to one of the buttons on my Stylus Pen's buttons which has always worked fine. However yesterday it started popping up a menu box instead displaying options (File, edit, select, view etc etc) However if I hover the cursor over the toolbox or layers it will complete the command without popping up the menu box. This has made my work extremely slow and frustrating because I am not used to having to move my cursor off the canvas to undo, and I undo a lot. Does anyone know how I can fix it so that it does not pop up this menu anymore? 

Thanks.

Hi, 

I'm a new GIMP user, and installed it as a recommended "auto fix" for photos, so not necessarily going to be the best at leveraging manual adjustment features.  I've seen videos where a paid software is used to adjust the levels with great success in enhancing faded receipts.  I've played around with this a little bit in GIMP, but have no idea what I'm doing - any help or advice? 

Thanks!

I use gimp primarily for editing textures for game models, and I've been having problems exporting with a transparent background, no matter what i do the background always comes out either black or white. I've followed a bunch of tutorials around the alpha channels and exporting with a transparent background and nothing seems to work. The background shows up in all image viewers I've tried and in vtfedit, the program I need to get the images to work in the source engine.

For my purposes I need everything but a small part of the image file to be completely transparent otherwise you get the problem I've been having where half the model goes either black or white. Any chance someone can tell me exactly how they successfully create images with fully transparent backgrounds? Failing at this has eaten up far to much of my time now, so any help would be much appreciated. Running gimp GIMP 2.8.18 in case that's in any way relevant.

Hi everyone,

I started using GIMP a few weeks ago and I'm loving it. I was looking to change an image size and not have it distort. I found that other versions have a liquid rescale tool and my version does not. I was trying to find a way to install the plug in but the main download website says that I should already have it being an OS X user. I am using version 2.8.22. 

I hope someone can help.

Hi folks!

I am following this tutorial using Ubuntu 17.10: https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography...tists.html. When I try to compile GIMP using the following code:

    cd $SRC_DIR/gimp
    ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX --with-gimpdir=$HOME/code/gimpdefault/install/config --disable-gtk-doc


I get the following error:

    WARNING: GCC 7.2.0 has a serious bug affecting GEGL/GIMP. We advise
             against using this version of the compiler (previous and
             further versions are fine).
             See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787222

    Error: GIMP configuration failed.

      - Error: missing dependency libmypaint >= 1.3.0

    See the file 'INSTALL' for more help.

    Configure failed or did not finish!

Any idea what to do solve this problem?

ps: I have used "export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules" since this is a Ubuntu (debian-based) system. I have also installed libmypaint by doing:

    cd $SRC_DIR/libmypaint
    ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
    ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
    make -j3 && make -j3 install

Whenever I start my laptop, within a couple minutes gimp automatically starts (not my choice) and loads an image of the HP logo.
Why?

   

[GIMP 2.8.22]
This happened a month or two ago, just came across the screenshot again.
I had a multiple layered image open and was possibly running a script on all layers. Seem to remember it was affecting my computer as a whole (slow, or non-responsive at times).
Anyway just though I'd post to see if anyone has had anything like this happen to them?