This article explains how to create the Google logo in the computer program GIMP.
2Create a new document. Click on 'File', click on 'New' and finally click on 'OK'.
3Open the Type tool. Click on the black "A" in the Toolbox window.
4Type "Google". Use the Catull font at a size of 120 pixels. If you do not have this font, download it in Sources and Citations.
5Change the color of the letters and lock the transparency.
- Select the G's and change their color to blue.
- Select the first "o" and the "e" and change their color to red.
- Select the second "o" and change its color to yellow.
- Select the "l" and change its color to green.
- Unlock transparency when you have finished this.
6Convert the text into an image. Right click on the text layer and then click "Discard Text Information".
7Prepare the logo for bump-mapping. Duplicate the layer that contains the Google logo, lock transparency and fill the layer with black.
8Unlock transparency and then do a Gaussian blur of 10 pixels.
9Delete the "Background" layer.
10Add a shadow.
- Duplicate the layer that contains the Google logo, lock transparency and fill the layer with black.
- Unlock transparency and then do a Gaussian blur of 10 pixels. Send the layer to the back.
- Then move the logo 3 pixels from its original location (press the right arrow key 3 times, and do the same for the down arrow key).
- Change the shadow's opacity to 50.0.
11Bump-map the logo. Select the layer that contains the colored Google logo and bump map it using the following parameters:
- Azimuth: 90
- Elevation: 45
- Depth: 7
- Leave X offset, Y offset, Water level and Ambient at their defaults.
Things You'll Need
- Catull font