[DarkJorge]

yeah im sorry but after alpha to selection i get lost, im sorry. i just started at gimp like a month ago, and im still noobish. :s:

i just cant get it after Alpha to Selection, and i have used all your ways.

[DarkJorge]

sorry i figured it out. im so sorry, i had to look at your second way to do it at a certain angle of thought to figure out what i did. man i am such a noob. well heres my result

[DarkJorge]

!@#@!#!&%^
im sorry i triple posted, @#%#~ machine posted it twice.

heres my picture.



and


sorry again.

[Huckleberry]

Wow, thanks for the tut. I've been looking for one of these and it really helped me out!

[HYPR]

I have
no idea how to do this. I tried all of them. all is what i got is white text. can someone help? Please? :s:

[Frederikke]

Pretty easy once I remembered to have a background behind the image. Thanks for the tip:)

I followed the tutorial step by step ( just added the extra layer, which I don't know if absolutely needed but it's how I got it to work for me).

If you only get white text you forgot to de-select the text layer - "un"-click the Eye in the Layer box for the Text layer.

[fencepost]

I've modified the tutorial so that it's no longer a single image and have updated it to GIMP version 2.2.13

[Lowfire]

hehe had to try this :h:

although for some reason i couldnt find Add Bevel, (it's a script-fu right?) well had to do it a bit different but looks pretty neat too :w:

[fencepost]

Looks good! Yep, you can find the bevel feature under: Script-FU > Decor > Add Bevel...

EDIT: I went back and added the Menu locations for the bevel and shadow options as well as a link to a reflection tutorial.

[vilyt-]

Thanks, fencepost! I've always wanted to learn how to do that. :l: I prefer the first method (with pictures!!! X3) Thanks again. :w: I still don't know how to do the reflection, but w/e at least i got the basics =DD

EDIT - here it is!! ain't it perdy?? though i chose a bad picture, :s: and the shadow's really off.. ahh well its just testing :w:

[Mandee]

i cant do it im lost please help me im new at this :s:

[MJW]

this tut doesnt work....

[avj14]

how do you get the thing that lets you put pics in your text??? cause i dont kno how to get the download lol :s:

[avj14]

gimp thts the name lol! how do you get tht?

[Tauquito]

What's the font you used for the "IMAGE TEXT" picture?

[wbool63]

Thank You Fencepost, a very good tutorial. I run gimp windows 2.4 but your tut is ok for that release. I tried all three ways. They all work.
I did get stuck until I realised that it appeared that the fonts must be solid black. I found that a hollow fat font will not work for me as there was no black for transparancy. Can you please check that this is the case and not just me doing the wrong thing. Here is my attempt with a small bevel and I have mirrored the Font Layer prior to the "Alpha to Selection" step to keep continuity of the underlying picture. This may be nice in the case of a portrait if you can find a Big Fat Font to keep the face features flowing through the lettering. So this is only a mirror of outline ,NOT, content within outline. I can use a hollow font if I fill it it with black, but that makes it quite "fiddly" as the marching ants crowd the black outline of the hollow font.
Cheers Wbool63

[SwissMiss]

Sweet. I like it. It's very easy, too. I put an outline around the letters to define them better. Here is my outcome:

[gymnart]

I don't know if anybody said this already but you can mirror or flip your photo first, then do steps 2-6 (from the second version of this tutorial) and then flip it back before you do the paste (ctrl+v) part. Then, rather than deleting your background, you can just move the new layer to the position that you like.

(the secondary watermark was done using a grey color then choosing color to alpha [pick white for that] then using the Emboss tool and after that, I set the layer to something like, addition, then I used the drop shadow tool.) I have also lowered the opacity of the background image to make the text more visible.

[SailorSenshi89]

I know this is a late post but I wanted to show what I got:



Thanks for the tut! It's awesome!!!

[gymnart]

That looks nice, SailorSenshi89! :D