hello youtubers and welcome to another
gimp tutorial in which you will learn how to create a simple 3d text, let's get
started go to file>new enter desired dimensions then go to advanced options and I
will select the fill with white, click ok, next I will select the text tool click on my
scene and we drag to make a box I will change the color of my font to a gray
color that's okay you can also change the font if you would love to from here,
I will click here inside my box and type my desired text, then I will select
my text, and increase the size as preffered, that's okay, next I will select the move
tool in order to move my text layer to the middle of my image, but if you
would love to Center your text exactly on the center of the image, you can go to,
select the alignment tool select, then set the align mode
relative to image, then select your text layer and align it to the center of target,
and to the middle of the target, it is exactly centered now, next I will duplicate my text layer by
click and hold then drag towards this button, and now it is duplicated, I will hide the
top layer for now and select the origin text which is the layer which has
beneath, and then apply filters from filters menu>blur>zoom motion blur, I will reduce the blurring factor to the
negative because over the positive values the text appears to be moving away from us,
and we need to the exactly the opposite and be right here zooming toward
us in which we will make it and negative and I
will select negative zero point one you can't change as you desire and of course
you can modify the center X and center y in which it will specify that the
perspective point that you are looking to, in which direction you are looking to
the text, I will keep it centered at the text for now, you can of course
experiment with different techniques and different angles, now which this is
selected, I will select the select by color tool and select the background of
the text, now the background is completely selected I want to invert it
to select exactly my text every pixel of text
I will go to select invert now my selection is completely inverted then I
will select the gradient tool and you can choose your desired gradient choose
whatever gradient you would like to, I chose this one here, and I click all and
drag while holding ctrl to snap strict and of course you can adjust the points
of the slider to move the position of the points you can move your points as
you desire and you can click on a single point and change the color I like the
colors for now but in case you want to reverse the order of the colors, press
the reverse, now the shape is radial, okay then if you are satisfied with the
results press Enter in the following you will reveal our
hidden text, and see all it looks like a it is 3d, this is an optical illusion
now you can change of course the color of your text I will make sure I've
selected none by going to select menu done select the text tool and select my
text that I want to change the color to, feel free to experiment with different
colors and choose what you like, now this looks okay for now,
I like this color I will create a new layer in which it will be empty, it will
be empty by default I will press ok but I hold alt while selecting the text you
can see the text is selected precisely by each element in the layer, make sure
you've selected the layer the new empty layer then go to ellipse select tool and
make an ellipse but make sure the mode of the ellipse selection is intersect, because we
want to select the portion of the text which intersect with the ellipse, and the importance of this step is to give an illusion of our text
and artificial lighting, or as you can say to make it more pop up to the vision, now right click on the layer add legal
mask and you will select the selection in which the selection will be only
visible and the rest of the layer will be completely transparent, next I will
select the gradient tool and change the pattern to the simple foreground
background color, I will change the foreground to white and keep the
background to black you can you can click all and drag a slider and this is that we are not coloring the layer, but in fact we are adjusting the masks of the layer, this is called a
mask not put the actual layer in which the transparency would be affected to
check over the world we will be select now the visible layer and fill with
bucket fill tool, select the foreground color which is white and fill the whole
selection, as you can see it is filled with the color white but not transparent
as we would like to, we will go back to the layer mask select the gradient tool
and reapply the gradient if desired we can switch the order by going to reverse, adjust our slider and we of course we
can move the mixing between colors but make sure the shape is linear, okay when you're satisfied press Enter, next we will apply a reflection to the
layer, what we will do is we will right-click on the top layer and select
merge down, now it will combine the layers into single layer, now
this layer is completely one-piece as you can see make sure you selected none and select
the layer and duplicate it then select the flip tool, and select the
vertical direction, click it just once on the text, and as you can see it is
the flipped, now select back to the move tool click
on our text, but if it is out of alignment and you want it completely, centered and below of our text, hold ctrl while moving, now this is satisfying but to make it
look and appears as a reflection we will add a layer mask and apply what we
applied for the reflection, or if you would like to you can go to the eraser
tool and erase it manually, but but to make a faster and more accurate result,
right click and add layer mask and select white full opacity, next click on
the mask and select the gradient tool and make sure the pattern is go down to
the ground, which is white and black then click anywhere all and drag, as you can
see it made it appears but inversly, we will go to reverse where they adjust
that to your needs, and of course if you want to reduce the
opacity you can go on either way by either reducing the opacity of the layer
directly from here, or by selecting the background color, I'm sorry to the
foreground color and make it darker, notice what will happen, now I made it way too dark, I will a try to make it brighter, and you can see it is done, so I have
selected the gradient tool and selected none, and highlighting the background
layer, I will choose the pattern tool for a ground background, and make sure the
colors are white and black respectively, and the shape is linear
then I really click in the middle and drag I would like to reverse and adjust
a little you can change anything and this looks fine but you noticed one
problem let the reflection doesn't completely
satisfy its landing but we will do a simple adjustment we press ENTER to accept
the changes then we select the reflection layer we previously made then
change the blending mode to soft light and see how it appeared okay, that's it
thank you for watching goodbye
