Tip: Make a distressed font with GIMP
The other day I had need to make a sort of distressed/grungy/textured looking font using The GIMP. You know the kind of thing. A little googling bought up Grunge texture text from gimp.pixtuts.com, which got me most of the way towards the effect I wanted. This video is my simplified version of that approach. Being lazy I prefer simple. In the video I use this wood texture from textureking. I used a photo of a fence in the mist for my actual project, applying the same technique several times to get just what I was after. Props to nor for suggesting I post about it. There is a high res version if you want to follow along or don't have flash.
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Broken link to hi res version
Thanks for this - been scratching my head for many an hour trying to figure this out.
Link to hi res version seems broken?
http://a5.video3.blip.tv/0410011066736/Ciderpunx-UsingGIMPToMakeADistressedFont651.mp4?brs=1528&bri=2.5
Monday, 14th November 2011 at 22:47:39 by
Links fixed
Cool, glad you liked.
I've fixed the link which should have pointed to:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Ciderpunx-UsingGIMPToMakeADistressedFont651.mp4.
Wednesday, 16th November 2011 at 13:10:13 by
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