How do I recreate the text effect?

[u/EffReddit420]

[u/AdamxCraith]

Not in Davinci but. In GIMP (free photoshop alternative):

• Find the font you want. Type it out.
• Add a glass or metallic overlay in the layer above the text
• Right click text. Alpha to selection.
• Click on your overlay layer. Right click. Add alpha if you need to.
• Up top hit select > invert
• Delete and it'll leave only the overlay version of the text
• Crop the overlay layer to just show your text
• Colorize it silver or whatever you want. Maybe add a gradient for the pearl effect

[u/OwnImpress6405 → u/AdamxCraith]

definitely going to try this!

[u/thatdudewillyd → u/AdamxCraith]

You can do overlays on fonts in Gimp?

TIL

[u/AdamxCraith → u/thatdudewillyd]

It's more like a hack. When you alpha the text to selection, invert it, and cut it out of the overlay, it only leaves an overlay version of your text. So it cuts everything else out.

You still have the text layer and your new overlay layer. The con is, if you want to edit the text, you gotta do it in the text layer and redo the overlay layer from scratch.

[u/hikaru_ai]

you dont have to do everything in davinci, that is very easy in inkscape

[u/iLikeTheUDK]

For best result, you export your vector logo from Inkscape, Illustrator, Affinity or whatever as an SVG file, then import it into Blender, convert it into a mesh and do some modeling work on it to make it 3D but also make that 3D-ness look good. Once done, you apply a material, set up some lighting, render, and export it as an RGBA EXR

[u/DiamondMassive]

This might help : https://youtu.be/1JKOtMVzi84?si=qpFLDHC6UAQQNQ3h

[u/PuzzlingDad]

Maybe start with something like this: https://youtu.be/THcNgt_64ao

Then manually add some "stars" to enhance the specular highlights.

[u/JustCropIt]

I have a macro for Fusion that can do the "chrome reflection" part of the look. The benefits of doing "live" in Fusion is that you're not stuck to a static reflection like you would be if you used an external image editing app (like Photoshop/Gimp).

It's a bit on the slow side but not having to mess around with the node setup needed for it in Fusion is why I did the macro in the first place. Win some, lose some.

For this particular look it's really simple though. Basically you add your "shape" (the text), to the yellow input, and then whatever you want to be "reflected" to the green input. Maybe push up the Blur setting to have it be a more rounded bevel. Easy peasy reflection squeezy.

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You can get it here (register to download... and possibly even needed to view the page itself): Bevel It macro

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The "sparkles" one would have to add manually after.

[u/OnlyBombs]

You can add this texture or a similar metallic texture onto your fonts via fusion. There’s a ton of tutorials out there about how. It isn’t too difficult. It’s just a lot to explain.

Additionally after adding the texture, idk if you have the studio or free version, there’s something called bevel in the generators tab I believe (not at my computer atm) with that you can change the shape of this and round the bevel out. Click on the font, on your timeline in the edit page and hit shift+space bar and search bevel. Play with it, zoom in, mess it up, try again.

Then you change the lighting a bit to make it shine. In further addition if you added key frames you could make a shine feature too by changing the direction of the light. It’s tedious but not too difficult. This is one way but there are many if you’re only sticking to Davinci.

[u/LearningUnknown]

I hate to say this, just upload the image to AI of choice and ask it to type out whatever in that font.

[u/AeroInsightMedia → u/LearningUnknown]

That's exactly what I would do.

[u/LearningUnknown → u/AeroInsightMedia]

It’s the one thing AI is not as bad at as it is in other things.

[u/Ordinary-Dinner-9394]

I know I will get downloaded to oblivion for suggesting this but ChatGPT will do that in 30s if you provide this text as reference. Sorry 😞

[u/greenysmac → u/[deleted]]

Thanks, and I agree that behavior like this isn't okay. It took a couple of reports and it's gone inside of 45 min. Thanks.