How to make a metal outline 3D text effect with Gimp

The screenshots will be posted tomorrow.(:

But here are the Instructions on how to do it

Hope you'll like it :)

1. File/New

Image size 600 by 400 pixels

or however image size you like.

2. Change your Background Color to Black

Set you're Foreground Color to what ever color you may want

3. Get your Blend Tool and change the Shape 

To Radial.

4. Click on the middle of the Canvas and drag

it to one of the corners.

5. Make a new layer

for this next step use a pattern 

Grab you're bucket fill tool ( make sure that the fill

type is on pattern fill) 

6. Set the layer mode to Soft Light

and lower the Opacity to 50 or 60 %.

7. Click on the Text tool make sure the Foreground

Color is white the Size 160 or more it depends on you

and choose the Font of you're choice.

Type in you're text.

8. Get the Alignment tool

and change the  relative to: Image

now click on you're image and press the 

click the 2 middle ones to center you're text.

9. Go ahead and select rectangle tool,

Right click on you're text layer/ Alpha to selection 

and add a new layer.

10. Go to Select/Grow, and grow it by 10 

make sure that the foreground color is black

change the fill type to FG color Fill.

and fill in you're selection with black

on the new layer.

11.Make a new layer change your back ground color

to medium gray:808080

12. Get out you're blend tool and change the mode

to Linear.

13. Alpha to select the black layer then click on 

the new layer and click the bottom and drag up.

14.Then right click on the Text layer

Alpha to selection.

15. Go back to you're new layer with the gradient

then Select/grow, grow by 2 pixels press ok

then press Delete  on you're keyboard.

16. Alpha to selection on the gradient layer 

17. Add a new layer change you're foreground

color to white and you're background

color to Dark Gray:404040

18. Grab your blend tool, using the same settings click on 

it and drag it down.

19. Go to Select/ Shrink by 1 pixel

press the Delete key to delete the rest of you're

selection.

20. Select/None

Set the Opacity to 60%.

21. Go back to the black layer and 

Duplicated twice 

on the bottoms 2 layers click on the chain button.

click on one of the layer and get

the move tool make sure that is checked

on the active layer.

22. Click on you're image use the 

down arrow key to move the 2 layers

down, move down like about 9 to 13 pixels.

(it would give it the 3d effect look)

then un check the 2 chains

make sure that the bottom layer is selected.

23. Then go to Filters/Blur/Gaussian Blur

and Blur it by 10 pixels.

you should still have the move tool selected 

click on the image again and move it down a couple

of pixels like 5 and set the layer opacity down to 80%.

24. Then select you're text layer and move it

3 layers up click on the text layer image

use the move tool, click on the layer, use the arrow down key

and move the text layer down by 3 pixels.

25. Make a new layer above everything else

26. Alpha to selection on the Gradient layer

click on the new layer.

27.Grab the Rectangle Select tool put the mode

to Intersect,

drag the rectangle and select half of the text 

Horizontally, to finalize the selection click

inside the rectangle.

28. Grab you're blend tool 

make sure that the foreground color is still white

use the gradient tool FG white to transparent

and drag it straight up.

29. Select none.

and there you go as shown below this is the 

medal 3D text effect. 

hope you enjoyed it

ill have the screenshots  soon

bookmark and enjoy.