Welcome to this awesome list of FREE GIMP text effect tutorials. All these tutorials have been painstakingly compiled for you the aspiring GIMP artist. We have tried to make the list as diverse as possible, so you will find something you really like.
In this list we include both tutorial posts and videos. You will learn to use a lot of tools, techniques, tricks, and methods in the process of designing cool text effects. GIMP is easy to use, and text effects is especially easy once you start on the tutorials below.
Pressed Text
Nice tutorial. Create pressed text using drop shadows and bump mapping.
Futuristic Text in Gimp
Design a futuristic style text effect with neon. All in gimp. A short video.
Lava Text Effect
Text straight from a volcano. Bevel text on an ash volcanic background.
Star Wars Text
Layer effect styles on a Hubble telescope stars image. How cool can it get?
Chrome Text
In this tutorial, learn some techniques on designing shiny chrome text in Gimp.
Animated Sparkle Effect
Ok not a real text tutorial, but learn how to animate sparkles around your text.
Mirrored Metal Text
For this one you need to download some scripts for Gimp…but worth it.
Text Stamp
Create a cool Text Stamp in Gimp. Kind of a grunge effect. Looks good.
Text on 3D Spheres
Cool video tutorial on using ‘Map to Object’ to design text on balls. Watch it.
Glowing Text
This tutorial has just 12 easy steps to add a glow effect to your text. Check it.
Glowing Text
Neat tutorial on adding motion blur on glowing text. Learn a few tricks.
Text on Faces
You got to see this one. Blend your text with a person’s face. Nice effect.
Super Nova Text Effects
Gradients, light effects, mirroring, resizing, and blur makes for a great video tutorial.
Splashy Text Effect
Learn to use paintbrush, script-fu effects, and colorize to design a cool text effect.
Beveled text on Stone
Learn some nice beveled text effects with drop shadows on a stone background.
Awesome Artistic Text Effects
Call it what you want, but some cool text design here. Watch the video.
Glassy Text
Using a couple scripts, design simple but realistic glassy text in Gimp.
Glossy Gemstone Text
This is a good quality tutorial. Learn a few text effects in this one. I like 🙂
Image to Text
Add a nature image to beveled text. See the two versions below. Nice.
Brush Image in Text
Cool … brush in any image into your text … and mirror it. Good tutorial.
Artistic 3D Text
Combine Illustrator 3D effects and Gimp to create this quality work of art.
Draw Your Text
Cool tutorial on creating a GIF animation of your text. I like this one.
Neon Text
Five steps in this neon text effect tutorial. Cool text effects in this one.
Wrap Text to Path
This one shows you how to put text on a circular path. I’m glad I found this.
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Awesome effects. Thanks for great tutorials. Keep posting new tutorials
Try this one: Glowing 3D Text Efect http://youtu.be/EG7c07U5wxs
Thank you. Good video. Great text effects!!