The tips on this page describe ways how to create special effects, e.g. text logos or general image manipulation tricks. It is not my intention that you use these tips as they are described here, but you should try to alter anything more or less (colors and value amounts), to see what happens to your images and maybe find new ways to produce nice effects.

Text logo (a)

[1] : new image: some black text on white background
[2] : duplicate [1]
[2] : gauss-blur with 15
[2] : blackwhite with 255
[2] : colorize black area (unique color, plasma or whatever)
[2] : gauss-blur with 5
[3] : duplicate [1]
[1] : blur
[4] : duplicate [1]
[4] : blur-mask with 11 and [3]
[5] : multiply [1] and [4]
[6] : difference [2] and [5]

Text logo (b)

[1] : new image
[2] : duplicate [1]
[3] : duplicate [1]
[1] : plasma clouds with minimum turbulence
[2] : select rectangle and blend linear from black to white in last part of selection
[3] : some text in black
[2] : gauss blur with 2.0
[3] : gauss blur with 2.0
[1] : bumpmap with [2]
[1] : contrast autostretch
[3] : invert
[1] : bumpmap with [3]
[1] : contrast autostretch
[4] : difference with [1] and [3]

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Text logo (a)

Text logo (b)

Last update: 96/09/21