OK, this is my first attempt at making a tutorial (please don't laugh too hard)

Just quick and easy way to create an electrified logo

Tools Needed:
>The Gimp (2.0 or greater)
>electricity-logo scriptfu file (url removed...host having issues and it's been added in two other places in this tutorial. just scroll down a bit)
>Basic understanding of layers and copy/paste

1. From the main Gimp window, select Xtns->Script-Fu->Logos (MS)->Electricity



2.Type in some text, select the font, color of the "sparks" and the color of the text.
select the "Flatten Layers" checkbox. Then click on the OK button.

Be sure to keep the font size above 100 (the electric sparks seem to disappear at
smaller text sizes, you can always scale the image before you save it)



An new image window opens with your electrified text. We'll call this image 1



3. go back to the main gimp window and select Xtns->Script-Fu->Logos (MS)->Electricity
again.

Leave everything as it is (it should be still set to what you had in the previous steps)

4. Select the whole image in the new window that opened, copy and paste it to a new
layer in the first one.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have around 5 layers in image 1



(if you need to clean up the size, now's the time to do it)

6. From the menu, select Filters->Animation->Optimize (for GIF), this will cut down on
the size of the animation. After it's done optimizing, select Filters->Animation->Playback
for a preview of what the animation will look like.

7. Select Image->Mode->Indexed, select "Generate Optimum Pallette" radio button.

8. Save the image as a GIF file. A dialog box will pop up and give you a choice of either merging all the layers, or saving as an animation. (if you want the nifty sparkles dancing, I'd suggest the Save as Animation option)

That's all there is to it.

(edited to fix image links)

Nice tutorial thanks :h:

Great tutorial, Gerynar!

Look forward to trying it out soon.

Art

:s:That sucks the electricity-logo scriptfu file wont work I keep getting an error

Sorry to hear that BR7 :s:

I think that maybe another site that has it

~checks~

can't find it, but I just remembered I have a free host...putting the file up there and
posting a link

URL removed due to free host having issues, and the file has been uploaded later in this tutorial

This is really nice and attratice creation.
Thanks for sharing Gerynar :h:

regards.

That one worked for me thanks a lot :l:

Yea that worked for me to :l: Do you know what the differnce was in the two? Asking because there is anouther Script that I have the same problem with :a: "OceanText" and it gives about the same error message....?

Great Tutorial Gerynar thankyou for sharing :l:

I have the OceanText script on my machine and I think it works ok. I'll send it to you or post it here later, if noone does in the mean time.

Art

That would be great Art :l: Looks like a great script!

Well, the first link I had was actually version 1 of the script. I did a google search for the script because I couldn't remember where I actually downloaded it. The one that I had was 2.0 which is what I posted at my free site.

Yep I cant get ocean text on mine either Its a shame cause it looks good

I dont have electricity to pick from. Whats wrong?

You have to download the electric-text script and put it in your script folder.

in Linux, it's usually located in "/usr/share/gimp2.0/scripts"

not sure where it's kept in windows. But once the file is there, you just need to click on
Xtns->Script-Fu->Refresh Scripts

Then just follow the above tutorial.

Nice tutorial, keep it up.

Both Firefox, and IE hang and give up trying to get to this scm file. Can someone who has it put it on another server please? I'd really like to get it.

Ask and ye shall receive!

I'm off to beddy-bye. If this doesn't work, let me know and I'll get back with you tomorrow.

Art

Sean, sorry I forgot to send this to you. Let me know if you have any trouble.

Art

Thanks, that workled great! :h:

Cheers.

Ocean Text still doesnt work for me :s: ....

[*]EDIT: I have 2.2.8 also, do you guys that have the script working?

Same here, I get an error. I've got Gimp 2.2.8 on windows

Hmm .. Made this .. But i think that there are quite a big delay when it restarts .. How can i help it from doing that?

Open up the gif in GIMP and look at the layers in the layer dialog box. You should see the layer name and the amount of time each layer is displayed (ie.. "xx" cs - where "xx" is the time). Change each number to be the same amount. That way all the frames (layers) are displayed the same amount of time. It looks as if your first or last frame is the culprit. BTW, if your first and last frame are identical as far as how the graphic looks, that will give the appearance of a longer pause.

Make sense?

Welcome to the boards!

art

yeah it makes sense ..
Thanks, ill try it right away!!
Btw, good tut!!
It helped me figure out moving stuff

Glad it helped. Let me know if you additional problems.

A