On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 04:23 +0200, reuben_j_cogburn wrote: > Hi gang, > > I'm new here, and trying to learn to utilize Gimp to my fullest potential. > I've looked through the tutorials but am not quite finding what I'm looking > for, which is actually pretty simple. I just need to be able to turn some > text nearly transparent. > I use it as a water stamp for images I post online. I see ways to alter the > text, but no way to do a gradient fade... > Could anybody walk me through it?
Easiest way: 1. use the text tool to enter "www.meninblacksocks.com" or whatever. This will make a text layer. 2. in the layers dialogue (control-shift-L or see window->dockable dialogues) change the opacity of the new text layer. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list