GIMP 2.10 Tutorial: Melting Chocolate and Caramel Text Effect

[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and today I'm gonna be showing you guys how to create this melting chocolate text in version 2.10 point 4 this is the latest version of at the time of this tutorial but creating this effect is actually not too complicated and I'm gonna show you how to do it today but of course before we get into that I want to direct you guys over to my website at Davies media design.com as always we've got tons of game video and text tutorials on here as well as project translate playlists and our poll of the week results so definitely check that out you can also enroll in our photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher which is a best-seller on udemy and I'll include a link to that as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description so the font I'll be using in today's tutorial is called lobster it's a free font you can get it for free on font squirrel go ahead and just click this download OTF link right here alright so here is our composition and what I've done here is I've basically created some text and I made it appear as if it were like dipped in chocolate or something and so there's chocolate melting off the bottom here and then I also have some caramel or what I'm calling caramel because it's got like a caramel color to it that's sort of flowing on top of the text so it almost looks like the top half was dipped in caramel in the bottom half in chocolate and it's all melting down the text and it's got this really cool sort of 3d effect to it I also have a drop shadow behind the text here and then I have a shadow underneath the text and that just further enhances the 3d look and then I created a few gradients here so I've got this gradient which I think is my favorite because it helps the design stand out but then I also have this blue gradient that I used and then this sort of chocolate colored gradient as well so you guys can go with whatever one you like the best I'm gonna stick with this sort of white to light blue gradient alright so let's go ahead and dive in I'll go to file new and I'm gonna create this document at 1920 by 1080 pixels you can click the Advanced Options and I would set this to 300 X and wide resolution if you're gonna be printing this or really just using this on any form of print in the future if you're just gonna be using it for the web you can set it to 72 resolution but I'll go ahead and click OK and we'll start with the background here so I've already got my color set for the most part and actually I've got this set to a pure white but I actually want this to be an off-white so here you'll see my HTML notation is five FS and then a nine so pure white is gonna be six FS and the fact that there's a nine here just makes it an off-white and then this blue is already set here but you can copy the HTML notation here so this is just a lighter blue and I'll grab my gradient tool and something I figured out recently is that if you click on instant mode here it actually disables your ability to live edit the gradient so you'll see if I draw my gradient and release I can no longer live at it that gradient and I'll hit ctrl Z so live editing the gradient as you guys all know is a feature found in 2.10 and newer so if I uncheck that it's going to allow me to now live edit this gradient and I'm actually real quick just going to grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out a little bit because I think we're zoomed in a bit too much here so I'll grab my gradient tool again make sure that instant mode is not checked and then I'll go ahead and draw this gradient and I actually want this to be a radial gradient so I'm going to change the shape here to radial and I actually have the gradient itself set to foreground to transparent I want that set to foreground to background RGB and I can continue adjusting this if I want and if you want this to be the exact center you can grab a ruler and just watch the bottom numbers down here until you get to 960 and when I grabbed the move tool it applied our gradient but that's okay I can just grab the gradient tool again and actually same thing goes for the horizontal Center so you can just use the numbers in the bottom or you can grab your alignment tool click on that guide and then just click to Center align it and now you have some center guides here so grab my gradient tool again and just redo this because I want the gradient to be in the exact center of the composition and then I'll hit the enter key and now we have our gradient so next I'm going to grab my text tool and again I've got the lobster font set here just make sure that once you install the font on your computer that you refresh right here there's a little green arrow right here and that will bring in all your new fonts that you've downloaded so I've got Lobster 1.3 here and the size is 477 if you want to change your font just click right here and search through the fonts and then I've got the color here I'm just gonna make sure that this is set to a black a true black color so all zeros for the HTML notation six zeros and click OK that's just gonna help this stand out right now this won't be our final text color and I'll click on the composition and I'm gonna type all lowercase I just went with habit and now I'm gonna grab my lime and tool click on the text here and go ahead and center that up with my alignment tool all right so I think we can hide the guides for now because we don't really need them so I'll go to view and click show guides and you can see there's the shortcut key ctrl shift T so if we need those again later on we can just hit that next what I want to do is start working on the drip graphic so I'll grab my zoom tool and zoom in here and what I'm gonna do is create a selection from this text so I'll right click and go to alpha to selection and so now our text has a selection area around it but I want to convert this selection area to a path because I want to be able to edit this pretty freely so what I'll do is I'll come over to my past dialog and if you don't have this tab here just go to Windows dockable dialogs and hit paths and you'll see that the screen will blink whatever this ends up being so because this is a dockable dialog might place it like over here or even over here so there's three places that could show up but it'll blink wherever it decides to show up usually it's up here in the top and you'll see down here there is an icon called selection - path go ahead and hit that and what that'll do is it'll create a path in the shape of our text so you'll see here now our text has a red outline and I'm gonna go to select none because we don't need the selection area anymore and if I come over here to my layers and hide the text you'll see there is our path outline around your text so because this is a path we can now zoom in here and we can grab our path tool and go ahead and click on our path here and now you'll see all the nodes that are making up this path so a node is basically these points on the path and these are editable so we can click on here and curve them if we want or we could add brand-new nodes and that's exactly what we're gonna do to start so basically I'm just going to hold my control key and you'll see over here that's going to enter it into edit mode and that allows me to hover over the line here and then click to create nodes so I'll start with a node right about here and I'll create another node here and the reason I do that is now when I drag this it's going to allow me to sort of make this droop a little bit and that's what's giving us that melting effect so if I come over here and create another one and bring it down now it looks like we've got two separate areas that are sort of dripping here and if you want you can also add sort of a drip within a drip here so for instance I've added a node there and then I can add one like up here and just go ahead and drag that down you do want to emulate gravity to a certain degree so you want to make sure that you know all of these are sort of heading downward versus like you know having this B over here that doesn't really make sense from a gravity perspective and mine won't be perfect just because I'm not you know doing calculations or anything over here but yeah you just want to basically aesthetically make this look like it is dripping downward all right so we're gonna move along our text here and for this part I just created sort of a longer drip coming off of this so I'll hold ctrl create a node here and I'll just grab this one right here and bring it way down and you can go beyond the layer here because we're not actually using this text as the layer that we're going to be painting the dripping effects on but what I want to do is create sort of a water droplet shape so I'll drag these handles out and you'll see that's going to allow me to curve this and I want these to be pretty much equal here as I draw so I'm just lying the handle over here and trying to match this handle with the length of this one but now I'm going to create some nodes up here and go ahead and drag them in and this is what's going to help us create what looks like some chocolate dripping from here and just some advice the closer you can get this to a perfect I drop shape or a droplet shape the better it's going to be when it comes time to add sort of like a shimmering piece of light here so you'll see what I'm talking about later in the tutorial but just keep that in mind and I'll come up here hold control and create a couple new nodes up here and just drag these a little bit closer to the a I don't want them overlapping like this just because then it's not really gonna look like the lettering once we fill it in so we're just making sure that the paths here are always going underneath the lettering so this isn't perfect but it's going to be good enough here so I'm just gonna move on so I'll come over here to the curvature of the a right here and I'm holding ctrl to create nodes and then dragging this down and I'll hold ctrl here drag that down and then I'll come over here create some new nodes and drag those down then I'm going to create another droplet here so I'll just create a node right there and just drag this further down than the others and again try to get this as close to a you know rounded eye drop shape as possible you so this process is extremely random I'm not doing any sort of predetermined pattern or anything so you guys could just you know follow along sort of but creating your own you know shapes basically you all right so I'm gonna come up here to the I because this is a separate shape I do want to make this have its own little dripping effect going on as well so I'll just do the same thing here hold ctrl to create nodes and then you know create nodes within the shape too to sort of add a little bit of dimension to this and just drag these nodes down to make it appear as if it's dripping off all right so I'll grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out and so you guys can sort of see this dripping effect taking shape already if you want you can go back with your paths tool and sort of correct anywhere where you think maybe there's too much stripping going on or you know the shapes just aren't quite what you want them to be I'm just gonna leave these as is for the sake of time but now what I can do is I can come back over to our paths and so I've got a path here what I did last time was I just duplicated this just in case you don't want to accidentally alter this and then not have the path you know in the future if you need it but I can hide that path for now because we don't need it so I'm gonna click on this path that we created and then I'm gonna come over here and click the path to selection option and so what that'll do is it'll add a selection area back to our path and because we created this new shape with our path now the selection area follows all of those dripping effects going on and then I'll come back over to my layers panel and click to create a new layer and I'll just name this dripping effect and hit enter now if you want you can color coat this so I can actually right click and go to color tag and I'll just choose blue for this you can also do that in the layers dialog here so I can just click the blue here if I want to but yeah so I'll just assign a blue to this and I'll come over here and grab my gradient tool so we're gonna start with the chocolate color for the bottom portion of the text and so I'm gonna come over here and I've already got my chocolate colors in here so I'll start with this color right here which you guys can copy the HTML notation and I'll click OK and then for the background color I'll just choose the color next to it which is this one and click OK and you could set the shape to whatever you want I'm gonna try out radial first and what I'm gonna do is just click on our text here and just draw this I'm extending the gradient to the bottom of our text and this is actually the opposite of what I want so I'm going to go ahead and click this arrow right here and that's going to reverse our colors and let me just see how this looks with a radial grade or with a linear gradient here I actually like this a little bit better so I'm just gonna go ahead and keep this you guys can use radial if you want and then I'll hit the enter key and that will apply that gradient so now we can go to select none and you guys can see what this looks like now with the filled in gradient all right so now we want to add the upper part of this text which is going to be the caramel looking part so to do that I'm going to grab my path tool again and what we're gonna do now is we're going to if we come back to the original composition you'll see there are these sort of lines here which kind of add a wavy effect here it makes it look like the caramel is sort of dripping on top of the text so we're going to go ahead and recreate that and we can do that with the path tool so we'll go ahead and click right here to create our first node and then what we want to do is just go ahead and click outside the text here and drag as we click and that's going to allow us to drag this handle here and that's going to give us that shape that's sort of wavy shape and then what I did was I just sort of randomly did this throughout all the text so I'm just overlapping different parts of the text and you'll see this one I created a node in the middle of the text there and that's just going to allow this to go up and then come down which helps you know make it appear as if the caramel is sort of dripping at different speeds depending on which part of the text it's on and I'm just going to do this throughout our text here and again this is completely random so there's no science to this alright once we've done that so we've got a wave going through all of the text I'm just going to bring my path around the text like this and then I'll come down here and hold ctrl and you'll see that my path mouse pointer now has like an infinity symbol around it and that just means you can now join these two paths and that will complete the path shape so now what I want to do is go to selection from path and that will turn this path area into a selection and I'll create a new layer and I'm gonna name this caramel some of you say caramel which i think is an atrocity I will change this to green just for the sake of keeping this organized and now what I'm gonna do is change my color so I'm going to come over here and I've already got some preset caramel colors here so I'm going to click on this one right here and you can copy my HTML notation and I'll click OK and then I will click on this more yellow color here and click OK then I'll grab my gradient tool alright so now I'm gonna draw the gradient inside here so I'll just click and drag this and I've got the darker part of this caramel towards the bottom and the lighter part towards the top and you can drag this out a little bit if you don't want it to be as dark and once you have the result you want just hit enter alright so now we've got the shape filled in but we obviously need to clean it up and I'm gonna start by going to select none and so you guys can see here's all the portion outside of the shape that's been filled in so to clean this up what we need to do is come back to our path and we'll click on our path right here the original path we created in the shape of the text which is still visible right now and then click right here on path to selection once I've done that I'll go to select grow and I'm just going to grow this by 2 pixels and click OK and the reason I'm doing that is because if the caramel part on the top is a little bit thicker than the chocolate part on the bottom it looks like it's sort of dripping on top of the chocolate it looks like it's layered and now I need to invert the selection so I'll go to control I or command I on the Mac or you can go to select invert and that will invert our selection and then I'll just hit the Delete key on my keyboard and now all that excess area has been deleted outside of the text so go to select none and I'll hide this path and now you guys can see we've got the caramel layering here on top of the chocolate alright so now it's time to start working in the details here so come back over to my layers panel so I'm gonna start working on the highlights here I'll create a new layer and I'm just going to name this highlights and because this would be part of the caramel layer I'm just gonna give this a green color tag and I'll click OK and now what I need to do is select the caramel area so I'll right click and go to alpha to selection and now I'm going to grab my gradient tool or make sure I still have it selected change the color to a pure white and click OK so that's just all EPS in the HTML notation and I'm gonna reverse this back so that the foreground is now in the front again or on the left side but I'm gonna click on this and change this to foreground to transparent now before I draw my gradient I do need to shrink this a little bit so I'll go to select shrink and I'm going to shrink this by 5 pixels and click OK and now what I'm going to do is draw my gradient so that it overlaps only the tallest letters here so the tallest parts of my tall letters which would be like the top the H top of the B and the top of the I and then a little bit of the T if I can get it in there and so I'm just going to move this gradient around until I get the effect I want so I'm just adjusting the starting and end endpoints for my gradient here so I'm gonna go with that right there and go ahead and hit enter so now the tops of our tallest letters have a little bit of highlight going on there and now I'm going to create a second highlight layer because I want to highlight the lower parts of the text here so to do that I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this highlights too and I'll give this a green color tag and click OK because this is also part of the caramel and I'm going to do the same thing I'm gonna draw my gradient but I'm gonna focus on having the tops of the shorter letters here covered with the gradient and don't worry about the top of these letters here I do want to try to match the angle of that that we did before but it doesn't have to be perfect all right so once I have it where I want it I'll hit enter and now while we're still on this highlights to layer we're gonna grab the eraser tool and I'll just increase this and I can erase any parts that overlapped outside of just the shorter parts of the letters here so for instance the B the H that I just did before and make sure you get all of it and then the I since we already have the I highlighted and then also the T I'm just gonna erase everything entirely from the T so now the tall and short parts of our letters have a little bit of highlight on them so now I'm going to add highlights to the bottom part of the caramel here where it's sort of dripping into the chocolate and then the top part here and that's going to use a slightly different method so I'm just gonna go ahead and create a new layer and I'm going to name this highlights bottom and I'm gonna keep this green with the color tag and click OK and it doesn't matter where this is in the stacking order as long as it's above the caramel layer and what I'm gonna do is grab my bucket fill tool and just go ahead and fill this area in with white and then I'm going to select shrink this and I'm gonna shrink it by seven pixels and hit OK and now I'm just going to delete everything inside this area and now what I'm gonna do is delete all the stuff that's on top here because I only want the white that's down here on the bottom so I'll start by going to select none and then I'm going to come over to my path tool and I'm gonna click on this path here that we created earlier and create the path to selection here and remember we shrunk this down by 5 and then we shrunk it down by 7 so we shrunk it down by a total of 12 so I'll go to select shrink and we'll shrink this by 12 and click OK and now that is going to move our line right up to where we want the white part to end here so I'll hit the Delete key and now everything that's inside of that area will get deleted and I'll go to select none so now you'll see we've got these white highlights here and I'm going to come back to my layers panel make sure I'm on my highlights bottom layer and go to filters blur Gaussian blur and we're just going to add a little bit of blur to this and click OK and then we're going to decrease the opacity until right about there and so now you can see that this gives this sort of a 3d look it looks like it's a little bit thicker down here where it's dripping down our text so now I'm also gonna add a highlights up here to the top so I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this highlights top and make sure it has a green color tag and click OK and so now I'm going to grab my zoom tool and zoom in here and I'm gonna grab my pass tool and I'm just going to create paths along the top right corners of our text here and I'll hold ctrl to create a union here and I'm going to just drag this handle and switch it around like so and so now you've got the sort of Halfmoon shape here and I'm just going to move down the line shift and click and that's going to create a new path it'll start a new path but it's going to have the same settings as that other path we just drew and I'm going to come down here hold ctrl to create a union there and just turn that handle around so this becomes like a little Halfmoon shape hold shift click to create a new path hold control and then bring this path up this handle up hold shift and then control and I'm not being very exact with this or precise with this you guys can be as precise as you'd like you so now I'll grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out and that path we just drew will disappear temporarily but we can come over here to our paths and go ahead and unhide that and I can just name this highlight stop and I'll grab my pass tool again now that this is selected make sure I click on this path to activate it and then I'm gonna come over to my layers panel make sure I'm on my highlights top layer and go ahead and hit fill path and I'm gonna choose to fill this with a solid color which will be the white we have selected here and I'll hit fill and now if I grab another tool here like the move tool and go ahead and hide this highlights top you can see now the top of our letters have this high light going on here so now what I want to do is come over and I can go into filters and I'll just repeat that Gaussian blur there and then I can go ahead and decrease the opacity of that if I want and so now our top part of our text has a highlight on it so now I'm going to add highlights to the dripping parts here at least the ones that are in the shape of an eye drop so I'm going to grab my zoom tool and zoom in here on the first one I can zoom out a little bit hold ctrl so I'll come down here and I'm actually just gonna name this chocolate instead of Dripping and I'll create a new layer and I'm going to name this drop highlight actually named this drop highlights because we'll do multiple and then I'll add the blue color tag to this because this is associated with that chocolate layer and I'll click OK and now I'm going to grab my pass tool again and this is what I was talking about earlier about making this as close to an eye drop shape as possible because when we add the highlight with the path tool here it's easier or more realistic when this is the shape of an eye drop and I'll just drag this handle so we're doing what we did before and I'll come over hold shift to create a disjointed path there hold ctrl click and then drag this handle and you'll see I'm creating these Halfmoon shapes again and I'll come over to this last one here hold shift click click and drag hold control and actually this one I made a little bit too big so I'll just move it and then I can adjust the handle here all right so go ahead and fill that in so I'll choose fill path again and select solid color and click fill and so now all of these have white on them and then I'm also going to grab my ellipse tool and I'm going to click and drag and I'm gonna hold the shift key to give this a fixed aspect ratio of 1 to 1 you'll see that option right here is checked when I do that and I will shrink this a little bit and I'm actually going to change the mode here to add to current selection this is just allowing me to further make these highlights here look a little bit more realistic I'll just drag this down I don't want this to be too large and I'll do one more here and now I'll grab my bucket fill tool and just go ahead and fill all those in with white so you'll see when I click one of them they all fill in and I'll grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out so I'll go to select none and I'm going to just decrease the opacity here because this is doesn't need to be entirely opaque could be a little bit transparent and that will lessen the effect of this but now looks like there's sort of a glare coming off of these little droplets here the last thing I did for the highlights was I clicked on this chocolate layer right clicked and went to alpha to selection and then I went to select shrink and I'll just shrink this by 5 click OK and I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this chocolate highlights and hit enter and actually right-click color tag I forgot to assign the blue color tag to this and I'll just fill this in with pure white actually I'll hit control Z make sure first that you grab your lasso tool and I want to get rid of any parts of these droplets that are included because we don't need them so I'll just set them out here to subtract from the current selection draw a circle around that hit Enter draw a circle around that and hit enter and that'll get rid of that so I'll go ahead and fill this in and then select shrink and I'll shrink this by 5 see how that looks and then just hit the Delete key and go to select none so now we've got the sort of highlight going around all the letters here so go to filter blur Gaussian blur and I'll just increase this a little bit and I didn't keep much of these highlights so click OK what I did was I took the racer key make sure you're on your chocolate highlights layer and I just erased anything that didn't really make sense to me in terms of a highlight so I kept some of this and actually let me just turn the opacity down because this is gonna be what the final is gonna look like so I just wanted to add it a tiny bit of highlights to this not a ton and I just kind of kept the highlights of some the lettering coming out of the caramel and then also where the letter sort of connects here I didn't keep too much of this a bit much and then I'll do pasady so this is just really adding a little tiny bit of highlights to this nothing really major alright so there's only a couple things left now so grab my zoom tool hold ctrl and zoom out so now I want to add a drop shadow to this so I'll click on my chocolate layer and go to filters light and shadow drop shadow and I'm just gonna set the X and y values to zero so I'll just hit zero and the tab key because I just want this to be directly behind the lettering and then you can increase the blur radius if you want I'm just gonna increase it slightly and then you can increase the opacity as well if you want this to stand out a little bit more and I'll click OK and now I'm just going to add a drop shadow below the lettering so it looks like it's sort of floating and I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this shadow and click OK and I'll just move this below these layers here make sure this is above the background layer though and now I'm going to grab my ellipse tool my ellipse select tool and I'll make sure that feathered edges is checked and I have this set to a radius of around 50 right now and I'm actually going to go to control shift T and that's gonna bring our guides back and I'm going to draw this ellipse select tool and I'm gonna make it so it's approximately the same width as our text here it doesn't have to be exact but then I'm gonna click in the middle and drag it so that this plus sign snaps to the center guide here and then I'm going to grab my bucket fill tool and I'm gonna change the color to black click OK and I'll just fill this in and so because we feathered the edges here you'll see it kind of fades into basically the transparency and I'll go to select none this is obviously way too prevalent so we'll just turn the opacity down and it's too much of a circle shape so I'll just go to filters blur Gaussian blur and I do want to blur it even more this will just help it sort of blend in with the background there so I'll go with about right there maybe a little bit less and click OK and then you can also adjust the opacity here and that looks pretty good right there maybe a little bit more control shift teeth and there you go so that's for this tutorial hopefully you liked it if you did please subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Davey's media design you can also visit our website at Davey's media design.com and you can enroll in our photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher on udemy and I'll include a link to that as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you

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Length: 33min 21sec (2001 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 19 2018