Peter Saffrey wrote: > I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle. > > I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: > > http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches > > The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom > brush > to draw along this path. Once I've got this working, I can fiddle around with > the background and brush type to make it look pretty. >
You'll want to take a look at the screencast at http://meetthegimp.org/episode-065-roaring-16-bit/; around minute 12 it explains how to go from a text to a path and how to use this path. > I've got as far as adding some text and turning this into a path using > Layer->Text to path. I can then do "stroke path" with a brush of my choice. > However, I can't work out how to adjust some of the more complex options, such > as the direction of brushing and the distance between brush strokes, as > described in steps 8 and 9 of the tutorial. How do I do this in the GIMP? > > If I'm successful, I guess I'll write this up in a blog post. > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
