Re: [Gimp-user] Neon effect on jpg ?'s

2011-08-23 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/23/2011 08:17 PM, Longstreet wrote: > Hello all. Noob here, with a question. I've used GIMP just enough to > humiliate myself at my lack of knowledge, and am trying to get a handle on > the whole image manipulation thing. > > For a first project, I'm trying to make a wallpaper for my phone.

Re: [Gimp-user] Neon effect on jpg ?'s

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Antonishen
The tutorial assumes white text on a transparent layer, with a black layer background. You can do this by starting with your THEBOLT image and using color to alpha http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html to make the black transparent. Then just follow steps 3,4, and 5. -Rob A> On Tu

[Gimp-user] Neon effect on jpg ?'s

2011-08-23 Thread Longstreet
Hello all. Noob here, with a question. I've used GIMP just enough to humiliate myself at my lack of knowledge, and am trying to get a handle on the whole image manipulation thing. For a first project, I'm trying to make a wallpaper for my phone. My idea involves neon text (from the tutorial on

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Picker in Gimp 2.6

2011-08-23 Thread peter kostov
On 08/23/2011 12:13 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Mikael Ståldal wrote: > >> If you use GNOME or other GTK+ based desktop, you might perfer gcolor2. > > Which is nowhere close to gpick :) Hm, gpick seems really good! Thanks for mentioning it!!! > > Alexandre