Create a Harry Potter Style Text Effect with Gimp
Whether you are a Harry Potter fan or not, you must have seen the title of the famous Harry Potter movies and loved the text effect. In this tutorial you will learn how to create the stunning Harry Potter style text effect with the GIMP.
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I love the effect, except some of the steps could be a bit clearer.
Step 10: Why not start with b7b7b2 color as the fg color and use it to create the text? Then duplicate that? Instead of a new layer named hp? Unless I'm reading the step incorrectly. I puzzled over step 10 quite a while trying to figure out what you meant anyway. Think I got it right.
My text after applying step 11, doesn't have that cool wave-like effect on the lightning shaped upright of the P. Mine is solid gray. I don't know how you got that. I checked and rechecked my settings in B & E and they are the same as yours. Satin effect didn't change it to like yours either.
Step 14: The application of the gradient. Is that supposed to be Alpha to Selection on the original text in the new layer? A direction of the gradient would have been nice. I did vertical and it looks pretty much like yours.
All in all, this is a great tutorial and the results are awesome. Still scratching my head over that wave-like effect down the back of the P though.