Re: [Gimp-user] Word Art from Scanned Text

2008-04-18 Thread Owen 
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:54:15 -0400
Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm trying to do some lettering on a half-circle, and it occurred to
 me that I should be able to do a mock-up on the computer. To that end,
 I'm trying to take a scan of my caligraphy, and warp it into the
 proper shape—sort of like Word 'Art'. But how can I achieve this
 twisting with a scanned image?
 
 See http://typophile.com/files/text%20in%20a%20half-circle_6719.jpg
 for the effect I want, and
 http://typophile.com/files/od%20yishama_4911.gif for the text I want
 to bend.



Hi,

I suggest you use Inkscape for this type of distortion/effect, simply convert 
your text to a path and manipulate endlessly


Owen
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[Gimp-user] Word Art from Scanned Text

2008-04-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon 
I'm trying to do some lettering on a half-circle, and it occurred to
me that I should be able to do a mock-up on the computer. To that end,
I'm trying to take a scan of my caligraphy, and warp it into the
proper shape—sort of like Word 'Art'. But how can I achieve this
twisting with a scanned image?

See http://typophile.com/files/text%20in%20a%20half-circle_6719.jpg
for the effect I want, and
http://typophile.com/files/od%20yishama_4911.gif for the text I want
to bend.

--Joel
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