For binary downloads please go to the "releases" section

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Gold_Bevel_Text_Style_Plugin/releases

Gold Bevel Text Style plugin for Gimp

A Gimp Plugin that transforms plain text into a gold bevel metal text. It also has two dependencies that are full fledge filters of their own "metallic" and "sharp bevel". If you already have any of these binaries from downloading my plugins from before, overwrite all of them with the latest version.

Location to put Binaries

They don't go in the normal plugins directory.

Windows

C:\Users(USERNAME)\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux

/home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak includes Chromebook)

/home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

This plugin has bonus built in presets that go in this directory

Windows (GimpGegl-lb-goldbevel-config.settings)

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\filters

Linux (GimpGegl-lb-goldbevel-config.settings)

/home/USERNAME/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins

Flatpak (GimpGegl-lb-goldbevel-config.settings)

/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10/filters

This will give you three really cool presets that make gold without noise/grain and steel text.

Compiling and Installing

Linux

Clicking build_everything will compile everything if you are on Linux or Windows with MySys2. Below are directions.

To compile and install you will need the GEGL header files (libgegl-dev on Debian based distributions or gegl on Arch Linux) and meson (meson on most distributions).

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

If you have an older version of gegl you may need to copy to ~/.local/share/gegl-0.3/plug-ins instead (on Ubuntu 18.04 for example).

BEAVER RECOMMENDS YOU USE A MODERN VERSION OF GEGL. NO GUARANTEE DATED VERSIONS OF GIMP WILL WORK WITH THIS PLUGIN (USE GIMP 2.10.32+)

Windows

The easiest way to compile this project on Windows is by using msys2. Download and install it from here: https://www.msys2.org/

Open a msys2 terminal with C:\msys64\mingw64.exe. Run the following to install required build dependencies:

pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-gegl

Then build the same way you would on Linux:

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

After installing Plugin

Restart Gimp and go to GEGL Operations Drop Down List and look for "Gold Bevel". If you use Gimp 2.99.16+ go to filters>Text Styling or just search for it.

Alt Preview of Steel Text preset

Alt Color Preview on Darken Blend Mode

Preview of the two awesome co plugins that it is required to ship with.