[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>Great, your CD template is looking good. > >On the #18 image, the way it opens is as the screenshots - First thing >I see is the active later is not visible. > >see: https://i.imgur.com/YdUDr7Q.jpg > >Guessing it is an "intermediate layer" and you need the one above. >Keeping old layers is good

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread rich404
>I carefully copied all of the settings you had on the clone tool in >your JPG. Also I have both #14 and #18 file versions and the same >clone tool with the same settings works fine on #14 but not on #18. > >For a test I deleted all the layers so all I have is one pic and it's >text and it still

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>Very difficult to diagnose without full details of tool settings, the >actual image...etc. > >Traps that a beginner might fall into using the clone tool. > >Not correctly selecting the source - remember to control-click > >Working on a layer under a visible layer. Turn off visibility of >layers

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>Very difficult to diagnose without full details of tool settings, the >actual image...etc. > >Traps that a beginner might fall into using the clone tool. > >Not correctly selecting the source - remember to control-click > >Working on a layer under a visible layer. Turn off visibility of >layers

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread rich404
>I have 18 file versions of my project and the most current file >version #18 is not working at all using the clone tool. Yet if I open >an older file version #14, clone works fine. I have both 14+18 open >and can use the top thumbnails to switch between the 2 and can't >figure out why it doesn't

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>That will be better. Even better if the text is on a separate layer? >Assuming that it is not. > >You can isolate the text by selecting it, then inverting the selection >and painting around it. > >Try something like this. Using your jpeg scaled up 400% so a bit >fuzzy. > >Use the colour select

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>That will be better. Even better if the text is on a separate layer? >Assuming that it is not. > >You can isolate the text by selecting it, then inverting the selection >and painting around it. > >Try something like this. Using your jpeg scaled up 400% so a bit >fuzzy. > >Use the colour select

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread rich404
>I just made a snipping tool screen copy of it. that's not the real >image, which is 300 dpi. Can I point to the whitish rock color and >match that color? So would I need to touch up the black text if I was >careful not to accidentally color it? That will be better. Even better if the text is on

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
>That is so horrible, too small, full of jpeg artifacts, best advice is >find a better image. > >Hope you are not trying to print that > >However, since it is so small, dive in with a one pixel brush, use a >light colour, paint out the dark areas. Then use black and try and >touch up the text

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread GerryPeters
Notice the CD label attachment. The text on the rocks on the left is hard to read only in certain spots that are too dark or black. What's the easiest way to alter the colors in those spots? It seems like copying rocks that are more white in those places may be very good and then possibly a way to

[Gimp-user] Best way to fix background pic so text is readable

2018-04-09 Thread rich404
>Notice the CD label attachment. The text on the rocks on the left is >hard to read only in certain spots that are too dark or black. What's >the easiest way to alter the colors in those spots? It seems like >copying rocks that are more white in those places may be very good and >then possibly a