Re: [Gimp-user] Creating 3D fonts

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

On 08/22/2012 03:33 PM, Caleb Halbrook wrote:

> How do you make your text 3D?  As in, instead of flat it has a 3D
> cube look or round or something like that?  I looked at the text
> portion of the user manual and didn't see anything about that...

There are several ways to "fake" a 3D look in the GIMP, most of them
use the Bump Map filter.  Here's some ancient tutorials
demonstrating techniques you might find useful:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/
http://www.tigert.com/gimp/tutorials/beveled_text/

A couple of slightly more modern tutorials:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Golden_Text/
http://www.gimpdome.com/text-effect/3d-text-in-gimp/

:o)

Steve