Dymo Label Text Effect

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Was just playing around on Gimp the other day, when this effect started to emerge, so went with the flow.

So I decided I would create a tutorial for it.

Note - updated to V01 to correct an error.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Chris F · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:23 am **(#3)**

Very nice tutorial! Thanks! :bigthup

I love the grain texture!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Nice tute he4rty, thank you. I will get to it later on today, I hope.

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:14 am **(#5)**

he4rty: haha, i was wondering how you did that

. thanks for sharing!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nicely written he4rty.

alc59 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:23 am **(#7)**

Good one
I had trouble in step 4, adding noise to new layer, couldn't add noise to transparent layer ¿, had to duplicate the clouds and added noise to that

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:23 am **(#8)**

Very nice tutorial he4rty! Thank you. :yes

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Quote:

I had trouble in step 4, adding noise to new layer, couldn't add noise to transparent layer ¿, had to duplicate the clouds and added noise to that

So that was what the problem was. I couldn't get the noise either. I tried adding a white layer but that didn't work. Good to know.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

alc59 - Yes my fault forgot to mention the layer needs to be filled with grey 808080 first before running the noise filter, amended the pdf.

Nice results everyone.

Mike · **Joined:** Aug 27, 2010 **Posts:** 491

Jas45 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2013 **Posts:** 105

Thanks for the tutorial, He4rty. I was going to ask about the Noise layer too, but I see that has been solved while I was offline.
:tyspin

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Mike, Jas45 - nice results.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:49 pm **(#14)**

Did some labels from my dymo machine

this one is without cloud or grain layers

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:39 am **(#15)**

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Great job everyone...love the gimp tools one.
Had to do one more. I don't recommend using yellow for BG, but too lazy to change it.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Nice work everyone, Molly suprisingly black works pretty well...

YAFU · **Joined:** Nov 09, 2011 **Posts:** 726

Ok, I had to find images to know what you meant with Dymo thing...

Now that I know, excellent result!

Thank you!, he4rty

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:21 pm **(#19)**

Some More labels for you from my script

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:14 pm **(#20)**

Graechan, did you make a script for this? Where?