[Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text
Hi, I have a Hand Written Text that I want to make into a Nice Logo. How is that best accomplished. I'm using gimp 1.2.1 So far I use lasso to capture the text and have pasted it onto the background I want. But I want to bold out the text itself so it can look rounded and stand out more. The text is white and the background is light purple. Also maybe a way to make the logo sparkle at certain points of the image. I appreciate it. -- *** Phillip B. Bruce *** *** *** *** "Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. *** *** They should both be changed regularly and for the *** *** same reason." *** *** *** ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text
>So far I use lasso to capture the text and have pasted >it onto the background I want. But I want to bold out >the text itself so it can look rounded and stand out >more. The text is white and the background is light purple. perhaps selecting the text, then going to RMB -> selection -> grow and then filling in the new selection with more white? just a guess, but that's how i'd do it... -- The software required Win95 or better, so I installed Linux. Thomi Richards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text
> perhaps selecting the text, then going to RMB -> selection -> grow > and then filling in the new selection with more white? just a guess, but > that's how i'd do it... Or you could do Filters->Blur->Gaussian Blur (maybe to 3 units) with Image->Colors->Levels to change the surrounding grey to black. This suggestion is only a slightly-modified version of 'How to Clean Up a Fax or Scan' from Kai's Power Tips (http://www.pixelfoundry.com/Tips/KPT4/KPT4.html). A very oldy (these are the tips that first sold me on Photoshop eight years ago), but it's a goodie). ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text
I've read a couple of the responses so far and here's yet another idea. Start by placing your text on its own transparent layer. This allows you to use any of the logo scripts found in /Script-fu/Alpha_to_Logo menu directly, or to deal with the text separately if none of the existing logo scripts appeals. To make your text appear 3-dimensional, try making yet another copy of it on another transparent layer, blurring it by some modest amount, depending on the width of the lines, and using the blurred version as a bump map for the unblurred version. Make the bump mapped layer and the background layers visible and see how you like the result. This is a fairly common idiom in the GIMP, and you will run into it often. HTH, --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzsHome Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/ Photo Gallery ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-Perl
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:46:22PM -0600, Greg Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problems. It appears that someone already has the same issues I have > with running Script-Fu from perl (just like the tutorials said I would), > but I am wondering if it applies to just scheme based script fu, or > plugins as well? It applies to any script-fu plugin, and has (AFAIK) nothing to do with perl. It has worked from time to time, but most of the time, script-fu is broken in one way or another when being called from oter plug-ins. -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
