Follow steps:

Start gimp
Go through menus Xtns > Scrupt-Fu > Logos and click menu item Shrek Text, as shown below the note

NOTE : If you cant find menu Shrek Text in said place, that means your copy of gimp does not contain a script shrek.scm file. You can download this file BY CLICKING HERE from the gimp.org plugin registery, and put it in <gimp main folder>/share/gimp/2.0/scripts, and restart the gimp.



After clicking this menu a new window will appear, where you have to enter the information about your final plastic text, as shwn here:



After entering desired text, selecting font, height, and color, click OK, you will notice the gimp will process for a while and create new document containing your plastic text, as shown here:



Now within above shown image window go through menus
Script-Fu > Shadow and click Drop-Shadow
which will bring you a new window asking you some inforamtion about new shadow to be created, simply click OK, as shown here:



Now go to Layers tab and drag the layer named Drop-Shadow to the position over the last Layer named Background, so that layers' presentation is as shown below:




TIP: if you want to have this image transparent and you wish to reuse it within other applications like swish, I suggest you exporting it as PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format, so that the transparency and colors are not disturbed.

Final image without background will look somhow like this:



Final Example


It hope it was interesting

Thats cooooooooool, really

Thanks for sharing....

I'm still kinda getting the hang of GIMP.. and I look forward to your tutorials Mr. Imran :h:

::Cheers!::

Fred

Imran bhai, I have version 2.2.4 of the GIMP and it does not contain the Shrek Text script :'(... i think its been removed from this version... or maybe it is just the problem with me..

thanks...

Not a problem, the link is already mentioned in above post,
I put it again

http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4705

good day.

regards

Great Tute! I took it a step further with my images




Thanks Ali!
Aaron

Very nice results aaron.
Btw is the said site an IRC server ?

regards

Thanks Ali

No I run my IRC through stormdancing.net.. do you need an IRC server?
WxChat.com is a weather discussion and learning site. I also hold contest on this site with real prizes. Right now we are in the middle of Virtual Chase.. a storm chasing contest and the prize is an ETREX hand held GPS (about $150 USD in value)

Aaron

Hi Aaron, thank for you kind offer. For sure, we will be needign one in near future, for now board is gradually comming up, after we have a reasonable number of oneline usres we can lauch a irc channel.

I will let you know. Especially when we start conduting competetions on GT.

Thanks again

regards

How is this

Looks great! So, I take it you got a script to work?

Art

Yes I did thanks for your help

Glad to be of help!

a

How do I download this file so that I can use it in the Gimp?

ive made my text and i was wondering how i get it onto my signature......i onli got this an hour ago

Welcome to gimptalk goreckstar!

Open your signature file in gimp then use menus File > Open as Layer and select the plastic text fil to open,
Which will open the plastic text file as new layer in your already opened file.


regards

Wow, I've been wondering if I could make that in GIMP, thanks for the info

A nice result from an easily followed tutorial.

Thanks.

w00t i can reply now!!

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great tut.

I took it one step further by adding a white drop shadow above the text.



Greg

Photo Master,
Please do tell how you got the sig in your photo. Do you use bump mapping? I am very interested as I would like to do something very similar for another project I am working on.
can8v

I think your asking about the text in my signature file. For that I used the blend script from "Karl Ward". I got the script here at gimptalk. The link for it is http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Gimp-Resources-From-Kward1979uk-1808-1.html. The script is great and the font was "BellBottomLaser Ultra-light". Let me know if I misunderstood the question.

Have a great Day!

Greg

i know you did the scm file thing when ive put it in it came up with this



Error while executing
(load "C:\\Program Files\\GIMP-2.0\\share\\gimp\\2.0\\scripts\\shrek.scm")
ERROR: unbound variable (errobj )

whats wrong with it ?

To use the blend script, go to the Script-Fu tab at the image and use Script-Fu -> Gimp-talk.com -> blend

For Shrek text use the Xtns tab in the main Gimp window. Xtns -> Script-Fu -> Logos -> Shrek text

I was able to generate an error message using the Shrek text with no text entered, but did not get the same message you show. I suspect you may need to try using a different font with the Shrek text script. If for some reason the font listed is not on your machine, that may or may not cause the error. If you are already trying a different font, see if you get the same error with yet another different font. The font you are trying may be incompatible.

In an effort to force error messages, I tried large and small font sizes. If you select a size below 2 it resets it to 2 and if you set greater than 1000 it resets to 1000.

Let me know if any of these help.

Greg

i tried something a little bit different.