So recently I learned how to make engraved text with the filter 'Drop shadow' and the text is on a chess board so you have one letter on black and another on a white sqaure, and I couldn't figure out how to change the color of each letter. I attached a picture of the image I was working on, I want to make the 'T' a light white color and the 'E' the same color so that they stand out rather then being the same color as the sqaure. If anyone knows how or can help me then your input would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

-Tony

You could select the letters you wish to lighten, using the Free Selection Tool. Then use Brightness and Contrast to lighten the letters within the selections. Moving the Brightness slider to the right. Until you see the lightness you're looking for.

You could also add an Inner Bevel to all the text. Making sure to change the Black of the bevel colors to a dark Gray instead of Black and then select the letters as explained above to lighten the selected text.

There's many ways to accomplish what you after and this is only one way you could go about doing it.

Here is an example image of what it looks like, when what is described above is applied.
The font used in this example image was Times New Roman, with a drop-shadow added.
I also added your image to the example as a comparison.

in your image there are two problems:
1-selecting by color each character is not easy because the black is not pure and uniform black
2-the characters are not at a correct distance one from the others
Thus my suggestion is to OVERRIDE each character with a similar one and with the color you like.
So I did the following in preparation of your task:
1-identifying the character set (I found one similar, but not equal: Garamond)
2-preparing 3 layers one for each character and positioning the characters so that they override the existing ones
I attach here 2 different xcf, the first one (workfile) you should use for accomplishing your modifications
the second one is an example just to show the result (I choose random colors, only to show)
The two files are also repeated in png, so that you can see them immediately
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next post for the png version

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I wouldn't use a drop shadow, Stroke (thin outline) the letter with a complementary color, black text, white outline.
Paths and Text
Stroking a Path

To make it nicer I would use, Border Average to get a median color from the image palette. Use the Border Average color for text, stroke with a complementary (opposite) color.

Here's an experiment of opposing styles with 1px stroke.


Font choice is important.