On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:30 -0700, Dave Jarvis wrote: > Hi, Darren. > > > 2. There is a edit path points tool, select it, then click successive > > points to achieve the degree of arc you want (can be any complex curve > > actually). > > Playing around with it to get it aligned to the oval selection that I > desire will be a total pain, not to mention an imperfect alignment. I > will give it a try, though. I was able to do what you're asking quite easily, I just clicked path points along the edge of my oval. If I misplaced a point slightly, I moved it to be precisely on the curve tangent. I used zoom 400x.
> > > 3. Select your text once again using the text tool and click "text to > > path" button. > > 4. Create a new layer. > > 5. Hide your original text layer. Open the paths dialog and ensure the > > path you just > > created is selected. > > 6. Select->Selection from Path > > Good up until here. > > > 7. Fill the selection on the new layer with desired color. > > 8. Deselect the path so its no longer visible. > > Not quite sure what you mean here. Instead, I: > a. clicked on the text layer > b. opened the text tool dialog > c. clicked "Text along Path" Yeah, but what gimp does is not actually place text on the path/curve, instead it creates a selection of the text image that you then have to fill with paint. It's a bit unintuitive at first and I had trouble until I found someone elses steps to get it right. > > It gave me the text along a curve, but alignment to the original image's > oval going to be nasty business. Like I said, if you place the path points yourself, say 5 or 6 of them is all that's needed, its not really that hard, but might take a couple of attempts. At least this is about the only way in gimp 2.3 that I know of. Good luck! > > Thanks for the tips, though. If anyone has any other ideas that avoid > manually attempting to align paths against a backdrop, I'm all ears (er, > eyes). > > Thanks! > Dave _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
