This text effect creates types in their classy glass appearance against a silk background pattern. This style offers four variations of the folds and contours commonly seen in silk fabric. You can customize the silk wave pattern by changing the horizontal and vertical increment parameters. This effect is created in shades of black and white.

You can use this style for your text logo design, web page header design, menu navigation, or use it as a base to add more embellishments later. This style is a modified Script-fu version of the standard Sota Chrome style available in the open source (GNU Image Manipulation Program). You may freely use this text effect from this page for any purpose or application, personal or commercial.
1. Enter your text to render
(up to 24 characters)


2. Font size   
(default 70 pixels)

3. Typeface: Arial Black


4. Padding   
(default 20 pixels)

Click to generate the glass and silk text effect with your current choice of parameters. Your requested image is constructed in a separate window.

The generated image will be automatically removed from the server after approximately one hour. Right click on the generated image and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As..." to download to your computer.





The following illustration shows a short text string in the default glass and silk pattern. Due to the use of layer style, the glass and silk text effect engine behind this page produces a text pattern in Photoshop PSD format only.

Please be aware that this is a preview window to give you a quick idea of what the final image would look like. Certain parameters may not be present in the preview screen such as the typeface and font size.


5. Select silk and glass pattern.
           

Or choose a custom pattern

6. Random seed.
Click following button for a random seed.
  

7. Horizontal Increment  
Enter a value to indicate the horizontal increment of the turbulent random background pattern. A larger value creates larger creases and more folds in the silk fabric. A lower value creates smaller creases and less folds.
(default 2)

8. Vertical Increment  
Enter a value to indicate the vertical increment of the turbulent random background pattern. A larger value creates larger creases and more folds in the silk fabric. A lower value creates smaller creases and less folds.
(default 4)

8. File type:


The Photoshop PSD format provides the highest image quality and most flexibility. Image components such as text, shadows, background are placed on separate layers.