GIMP question

The Bollox

I am starting a project in college, which is web based. For the logo I am trying to get the font to mould from metalic gray into white, top to bottom, but I can't figure out how to do it, all I can do it change the font colour as a whole, could you help me?

irlrobins

Nope, but someone in Digital Art and Design might be able to.

The Bollox

sorry dude, I was looking under Tech only, didn't think anywhere else would have been better

5uspect

Sorry I don't use the GIMP, but I'm sore someone will be along shortly to correct my photoshop method for it.

I would duplicate the font layer and change the style on the layers to the different ones you want. Then apply a layer mask to the top layer (layer mask is a transparency map for the layer its applied to) and fill it with a black to white gradient as required. The beauty of the layer mask is that you can correct it as much as you want without deleting information from the two layers.

Hope this helps.

Briony Noh

I'm self-taught and no expert, so I'm sorry if I'm missing your point, but this seems to work for what I think you're trying to do:

Type your text. Should be its own layer, of course.

SELECT and BY COLOUR.

Click any letter and the whole word should light up if it's all the one colour.

Now, GRADIENT FILL as desired and job's done.

If that isn't it, then investigate masks as suggested.

projectmayhem

i'm a photoshop man but just do the font on it's own layer, go to some sort of layer style (again, it's in photoshop so i dunno about gimp) and do a gradient overlay... away you go

The Bollox

thanks lads

tba

Gimp is a bit different than photoshop.

Create your text and position it as needed
create a new layer
right click the text layer and alpha to selection
return to the new layer
gradiant fill with your desired colours,
Turn off your text layer.