Still trying to get the satin effect to work to a point I'm happy with it but getting a bit frustrated so decided to create a new wallpaper.

Those are such beautiful colors nice job. also very good font for unbuntu.

Thanks, they are the offical colours and font.

They look like they are carved from a cement block.

he4rty: that's lovely! the background is just perfect, like thick coloured fog. i'm glad to hear these are the official colours, it makes me happy when pink is taken seriously.

Hate to burst your bubble but its actually purple.

It was done with fencepost 3d text script.

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

You've definitely played with it, see here

very nice he4rty !

how did you get the colors to blend so well ?
is it a gradient ?

the 3D effect is great as well, i have to do something like this some time, too

The base layer is a vertical white to black gradient, the text started as grey 808080, then ran through the 3d script, used selective Gaussian blur just to smooth it out a bit and set layer mode to screen. The shadow is the perspective shadow filter which I had to crop the text out off, then I created above all the other layers a orange to purple diagonal gradient that I set layer mode to colour and finally created a grey fog layer on top set to grain merge I think.

okay, I know I do have this script but I was looking under Fenceposts scripts cuz I said I didn't know he made one. This one here is by "Frans Rijven"

O.k unless it was based on the tutorial I have read by fencepost which just made me assume it was his script.

Yes, he has written so many good ones, I was wondering how I missed that one. He has been missing now for at least a couple of years so he must be busy with his band.

Very nice wallpaper! The color combinations and texture looks very well.

he4rty: purple?! oh blast, i never get to keep my beautiful bubbles...
i can't believe you gave us the full story of that background, brother, i'm off to try it myself and see if i can get the same look.

Thanks for the comments, had a play some more, mainly because if I get in the right frame of mind I'll make a tutorial on the effect. I wanted to cover making the text whitish and also how to fill with a texture but still having a nice design.