Keywords: Brushed Metal, Gimp, Tutorial, Noise, Blended Text, Outline, Motion Blur



Let me know If you have any trouble or if I was Unclear at any point.

NC

Very nice tutorial.Is this ok?




LOL I found something to use my spider on

Nice BR7! I like the light in the center. I am about to post another tutorial in a sec.

NC

I have a blue and black background and the text always comes out too light.

Lower the opacity on the text layer.

Nice tutorial.

Very nice and easy to follow tutorial.
I have added it to pixel2life database.

thanks for sharing.

regards

I feel bad now. I just saw this tutorial at the GUG site. I promise I didn't see it before. But they are different on several steps.

NC

im gonna try this

Here's what I came up with-

The problem with this technique is that it leaves some strange looking suff near the right edge of the canvas. I've experimented with this a few months back and found that even if I revered the blur and did it again it just showed up at the other side.

I developed another simpler way of doing brushed metal, although it is less coarse(softer).

1. Create a plasma cloud with low terbulance between .5 and 1 or so.

2. Go to layers > colors > desaturate

3. Go to Filters > blurs > motion blur

Settings in motion blur are:
angle: 0
type: linear
length: maximum(266 I believe)

It's only 3 steps and creates a marvelous effect such as this.
For some reason the picture isn't displaying when I use the picture button. The url is http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7007 ... ine3aw.jpg

Thanks for the tip, frozendice and welcome to the boards!

Art

Another way I've perfected Noclayto'smethod is to make the new layer 25 pxls wider than the image. This leaves extra color to the right of the image eliminating that ugly defomaty when you motion blur the layer.

Oh yay!
An easier brushed metal technique!!! :l:
Allso, thank you for making it an image tut! I love those, I don't have to remember everything!!! :l:

noclayto
you mind if made brushes out of this technique.
will link to this tut

Make as many as you want.

NC

Yeah, umm hey guys I am new (so don't be too harsh). But on step #4 at the top, what the heck is giving a text layer an outline? And how would I achieve this?

if you follow the instruction directly after where it says give the text an outline itgives you the step by stepo intructions about how to do it

I like this effect, I just used a different gradient.

Ohhhh...Me like!

I made a desktop of this so I'm just going to link to it, high resolution.
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5831 ... top2mt.png

This is how mine turned out http://www.upitfree.com/view/65 what did I do wrong?

The link does not work.


Hey, dude he made this tut, is there a way to do that to just text?

You can't copy and paste that link? It works for me

i had problems trying to post earlier
here is my attempt, i'm a newbie, but try to be nice.
i like it.
the whole point of this pic was for me to put a pic of my hair on the angel.
she had white afro puffs.
the original had a white back, some how it started looking grayish, so i thought the brushed metal look would be cool.
my letters didnt look right, they were too light, so i just put more text on top