It has been a while since my last post. Lets start over again!.
I will show you how to create a smashing text effect by using GIMP. It may not be perfect, but the idea is there. Here goes! Harap-harap tutorial ini memberikan sedikit idea bagaimana untuk membuat teks yang kelihatan seperti telah pecah dan berkecai.This is actually taken from photoshop tutorial by Jacques van heerden. You can view it HERE. 1. Create new canvas. I prefer 1024 x 768
2. Fill with black.
3. Type the 'text', with size of 200px, coloured white.4. Click the allignment tool, click on text and make it centered on the canvas.
5. Let's do some editing here, click on paths tool and draw a line around the letter P, and when you have closed the path remember to click the 'selection from path'.
6. Click cut or CTRL X, and paste again or CTRL V. Use the move tool to move the half of P around and click on create new layer to the floating selection. It should look like this.
7. Make another path and move it around like this.
8. Use the same technique to the rest of the letters. 'Ambil masa jugak nak buat serpihan bagi setiap huruf ni. Aku plak guna laptop screen kecik, sampai sakit mata aku terkelip-kelip depan screen nih. Kalu yang ade pc screen besor lagi best'.
9. Setelah siap serpihan tu dibuat, dapatkan stok gambar tekstur yang sesuai seperti yang ade dalam Deviants art, creativeoverflow.net dan banyak lagi la. I placed the concrete texture above all my other layers and set the blending mode to 'darken'.
10. Choose the drop shadow menu from the script fu>layer effect. Pick the angle of shadow accordingly. Aku pun banyak kali buat 'trial an error' :)
11. Our final step for this tutorial is pretty basic, I use the smashed glass image and import it into our Composition. Set the blending mode of the layer to 'Difference'. Why 'difference'? beats me.
12. Done! Hopefully you have smashed your text into pieces and I would be glad to hear any comment on this.
(thanks to www.Photoshoplady.com for the photoshop tutorial)
