Shin Diggar wrote:
> Thanks to Elwin and Nathan for the suggestions. I'm happy to do this in
> Inkscape and import the results into GIMP but I can't work out how to do
> it.
Save the file as an .svg from Inkscape and pull that file in to GIMP. If the
svg file loader in GIMP is rasterizing the SVG
Inkscape has two tools to do this. There is the new node tweaking tool that
allows you
to sort of "sculpt" the nodes. Another possibility is node sculpting. Select
a group of
nodes, then alt-click and alt-drag on it. It will move and sort of
proportionally drag
other nodes along with it.
An
>
> Thanks to Elwin and Nathan for the suggestions. I'm happy to do this in
> Inkscape and import the results into GIMP but I can't work out how to do
> it. I also looked at the curve bend tool in GIMP but it's not quite as
> precise as I'd like and it leaves the 'text' looking a bit rough because
Thanks to Elwin and Nathan for the suggestions. I'm happy to do this in
Inkscape and import the results into GIMP but I can't work out how to do it. I
also looked at the curve bend tool in GIMP but it's not quite as precise as I'd
like and it leaves the 'text' looking a bit rough because it con
Shin Diggar writes:
> It's something that's very common on badges and logos, and here is a mock-up
> I made to simulate what I'd like GIMP to do for me:
>
> http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4541/textsr9.png
Curve Bend (under Distorts) does exactly that. You can set the upper
and lower shapes s
Inkscape can do that sort of thing. AFAIK, Gimp doesn't natively have this
capability,
tho I suppose somebody could write a plugin. But you could do it in Inkscape
and then
import it into Gimp, either as a bitmap, or as a path.
--- Shin Diggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
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