Move the black text layer under the wood text layer. You should now have one text layer that has the wood texture and one that is black. Invert the selection again, be sure the colors are the default, and fill the selection with the foreground color, black ( Edit - Fill with FG Color). Make the wood layer active and clear the selection ( Edit - Clear). Invert the selection to the area outside the text ( Select - Invert). A “marching ants” outline of the text should appear. Create a selection from the text ( Layer - Transparency - Alpha to Selection). The wood is going to be used as the face of the text, Make the text layer active in the Layers pallet. The font I used is Impact Condensed, 244 px, but most any bold font will do. Switch to the new image you are creating and paste the Wood Texture image, ( Edit - Paste ), it will appear in the Layers pallet as a Floating Selection. First select all of the Wood Texture image ( Select - All ) and copy it ( Edit - Copy ). Ĭopy the Wood Texture image into the original document. Open up the Wood Texture image and resize it to a width to 1200 pixels, set X and Y resolutions each to 72 pixels/inch, Image - Scale Image…. Make it transparent (under Advanced Options, choose Fill with: Transparency ). Source images: Wood Texture by kovik (stock.xchng) | Wooden Plank from Image*Afterīegin by opening GIMP and creating a new document with a size of 1200 x 600 pixels. In this GIMP project, you are going to use a couple of wood texture images as well as a few GIMP techniques to create a fairly realistic-looking 3D text image.