Create A Gold Paint Effect with GIMP

• March 20, 2019
• Nick Saporito
• 14 comments

In today’s tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to create a gold paint effect with GIMP. The following is just a brief overview of the steps taken. For complete step-by-step instructions with voice narration, please refer to the video tutorial below:

Gold Paint Effect

The first thing we’ll need to do is download the gold foil texture and open it with GIMP. Click the image below to download a full size copy of the texture…

Click for a full resolution copy

Once we’ve opened the texture image with GIMP, we’re going to add a new layer on top of it and fill it with the color #121212. Then add some white text with a brush-style font…

The font used for this tutorial is called Skywalker. It’s a premium font, but you can find some free alternatives here on Fontsquirrel.

Next we are going to create an alpha from selection using the text, then delete it from the black/gray layer so that it reveals the gold texture beneath it.

In order to give it the appearance that it’s been painted with a brush, we’re going to use the Warp Transform tool to manually brush the texture in the direction of each letter’s brush strokes.

Now we’re going to create an inverted alpha to selection using the text, delete the black/gray layer, and delete the inverted selection from the gold texture layer so that we’re left with the gold brush text on a transparent background.

Once that’s done, it’s time to add a new black/gray layer beneath the gold text, then create a duplicate layer of the gold text, remove the saturation, and give it a slight Gaussian blur.

Finally, we’re going to use the Emboss filter to add a three-dimensional sort of texture to the paint.

All we have to do now is set the blend mode of the emboss layer to Soft Light and we are finished…

And there you have your gold paint text effect with GIMP.

If you have any questions leave a comment below, and as always, thanks for watching!

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