On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:18:27 +0530, phanisvara das wrote: > On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote: >> >> I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to >> stand out. >> >> I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white >> for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I >> stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the >> text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by >> 3. >> Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black. >> >> My end result is a choppy unpleasant looking white logo with a black >> border. > > i'm not sure where your text gets choppy; i followed the instructions you > outlined, and got a decent looking outlined text. of course, before using > the bucket filler, i inserted a new layer underneath the text layer. > > yesterday i came across an article that describes how to produce nice > looking glossy text; perhaps you find that useful: > <http://www.linuxforu.com/teach-me/learn-image-manipulation-and-create-a- > glassy-wallpaper-on-gimp/> > > -- > phani.
I've been retracing my steps trying different things all morning and it seems (for me) the inner white text gets choppy when scaled to fill the canvas every time. I tried creating the image great big to scale it down but it does the same thing. I also tried the sharpen filter up to 99% but no luck. With my limited experience I can't think of a way around this yet. Thank you for the link, I will check it out. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
