Create A Gold Paint Effect with GIMP

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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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14 comments

Dara

October 19, 2020 at 5:33 PM


HI! Great tutorial. Can you please explain how to save image to have printed on clothing without the background showing up. Thank you
- Nick Saporito
  
  October 20, 2020 at 7:06 AM
  
  
  Just toggle off the visibility of the background layer then export it as a PNG file.
Alexander

October 7, 2020 at 3:23 AM


The ending of the Video was the best part I took the technique you gave to make it look like an oil painting applied it to a picture of Bryce Canyon.
The effect is fantastic. I now have a picture that looks like an oil painting of the canyon. I tried it on a picture of a friend it worked I need to adjust the embossing number for a better picture.
Victor

July 16, 2020 at 11:48 AM


Someone here know why using the delete button doesn’t work (1:55). Can you give me an alternative way to delete the area)
- Nick Saporito
  
  July 17, 2020 at 9:06 AM
  
  
  It could be for a variety of reasons. Do you have the proper layer selected? Do you have a selection enabled like I do? Or you might be using a Mac, in that case you’ll have to go to Edit -> Clear
Anonymous

September 14, 2019 at 5:25 PM


Hi people I need help I unfortunately do not know how I can downlod the color
- Nick Saporito
  
  September 15, 2019 at 9:46 AM
  
  
  You mean the gold texture? Just copy and paste it into GIMP.
Karmanya

September 3, 2019 at 7:54 AM


Hey Nick, I encountered a problem when I delete the selected alpha. The gold texture doesn’t show up as the text. Please help.
- Victor
  
  July 17, 2020 at 12:29 AM
  
  
  I tried to use the delete button so used the supr one (there’s two of them). give it a try.
Naomi

June 25, 2019 at 5:49 PM


Hi Nick,
Love the gold paint tutorial. I knew I would need it one day.
I’ve been asked to do this in rose gold however. Any suggestions as to how I could get the correct colour for this?
Cheers
- Nick Saporito
  
  June 26, 2019 at 8:42 AM
  
  
  Thanks Naomi. I would try adjusting the color of the gold texture. You can do you that going to Colors > Colorize or Colors > Hue-Saturation.
Nigel

May 18, 2019 at 2:35 PM


Awesome work nick. Can you do something like a poster design? it would really be of great help
- Nick Saporito
  
  May 18, 2019 at 7:43 PM
  
  
  Do you have any examples? Not sure what I would create a poster about.
Oswald

March 20, 2019 at 4:15 PM


Thanks Nick!