[Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text

2002-12-27 Thread Phillip Bruce
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text

2002-12-27 Thread Thomi Richards
>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 -> selecti

Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text

2002-12-27 Thread Sam Jones
> 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 bl

Re: [Gimp-user] Working with Hand Written Text

2002-12-27 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
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 s

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-Perl

2002-12-27 Thread pcg
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 >