Wow! I've never done a vector path, but what you did is so clear and clean that I only wish I had not cropped off my last name before sending the file! Is vector path a gimp tool? I'll look it up. Something new to learn. Thank you!
Helen On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/19/2013 01:37 PM, Burnie West wrote: > > > It looks to me like the original signature scan had the artifacts > > around it. > > Same here - and very low resolution. The signature itself is only > 64 x 142 pixels, and the artifacts look like they could have come > from scaling an earlier copy in an indexed format. > > If possible I would start over with a new signature and scan, at 300 > DPI or above, with black ink on white paper. Then, applying the > filter Colors > Color to Alpha would produce a much more acceptable > result. The more uniform the color and texture of the paper (or > etc.) used, the more certain the result. > > Or you could go in a whole other direction, make a vector path from > the available signature, stroke it with an oblong brush with its > angle and hardness tweaked, and use the result. This would be a > typical part of creating a logo from a signature. Just for an > exercise, I did that: > > http://pilobilus.net/xfer/helen.zip > > Picture worth way more than a thousand words. > > :o) > > Steve > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > -- Helen Etters using Linux, suse11.4
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