Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net writes: If possible I would start over with a new signature and scan, at 300 DPI or above, with black ink on white paper. Scan in 'Lineart' settings, so you don't have shades of grey. In the Gimp, set the mode to Color and proceed: Then, applying the filter

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-20 Thread Myke C. Subs
On 02/16/2013 11:16 AM, Denise Hamilton wrote: I am working on a webpage to sell my photography. I am trying to create text with my copyright information on the photos so that they cannot be copied (pirated). I have read the GIMP documentation and experimented

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-20 Thread Myke C. Subs
On 02/16/2013 11:16 AM, Denise Hamilton wrote: I am working on a webpage to sell my photography. I am trying to create text with my copyright information on the photos so that they cannot be copied (pirated). I have read the GIMP documentation and experimented with adding text to the photo.

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-20 Thread Partha Bagchi
You could try this: http://farbspiel-photo.com/learn/hdr-cookbook/creative-watermarking It was posted on Flickr gimpuser group. The question would be convert to some sort of script for Gimp... On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Myke C. Subs s...@mykec.net wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:16 AM, Denise

[Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Helen
I apologize if this goes out twice. I believe my first effort bounced. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: It's usually better just to have an opaque signature: it's harder to remove and can become a part of the artwork. Browsing and reading this I'm

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Gunold Brunbauer
Am 19.02.2013 17:33, schrieb Helen: I apologize if this goes out twice. I believe my first effort bounced. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net mailto:l...@holoweb.net wrote: It's usually better just to have an opaque signature: it's harder to remove and

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Kinney
On 02/19/2013 11:56 AM, Gunold Brunbauer wrote: Color - Color to Transparency a.k.a. Colors Color to Alpha :o) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Helen
I guess I need more detail. I've done this, and I'm attaching the result. In case attachments aren't allowed, or you can't see it, I'll tell you that there is messy white space all the way around the sig. The steps I took were to open the scanned sig, copy, paste as brush, and then used it to

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Helen
Sorry!!! I can't see to do this in one mailing! I did do the color - color to alpha before I did the copy/paste as brush. Thanks for your patience. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Helen etter...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I need more detail. I've done this, and I'm attaching the result.

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Tobias Lunte
I've created a quick screencap. Hopefully, this will clear any misunderstandings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKPKMiUko8 bw, Tobias Lunte//Tobl Am 19.02.2013 18:22, schrieb Helen: I guess I need more detail. I've done this, and I'm attaching the result. In case attachments aren't

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Kinney
On 02/19/2013 01:37 PM, Burnie West wrote: It looks to me like the original signature scan had the artifacts around it. Same here - and very low resolution. The signature itself is only 64 x 142 pixels, and the artifacts look like they could have come from scaling an earlier copy in an

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Helen
Thank you! I'm going through it now. Open Source users are such a generous lot! Thanks On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Tobias Lunte tobias.lu...@hfg-gmuend.dewrote: I've created a quick screencap. Hopefully, this will clear any misunderstandings.

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Helen
Wow! I've never done a vector path, but what you did is so clear and clean that I only wish I had not cropped off my last name before sending the file! Is vector path a gimp tool? I'll look it up. Something new to learn. Thank you! Helen On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Steve Kinney

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Kinney
On 02/19/2013 04:26 PM, Helen wrote: Wow! I've never done a vector path, but what you did is so clear and clean that I only wish I had not cropped off my last name before sending the file! Is vector path a gimp tool? I'll look it up. Something new to learn. Thank you! I was looking for

[Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-16 Thread Denise Hamilton
I am working on a webpage to sell my photography. I am trying to create text with my copyright information on the photos so that they cannot be copied (pirated). I have read the GIMP documentation and experimented with adding text to the photo. I cannot find how to make the text visible but not

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Transparent Text

2013-02-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 16.02.2013 17:16, Denise Hamilton wrote: I have read the GIMP documentation and experimented with adding text to the photo. I cannot find how to make the text visible but not solid. Lower the opacity of the text layer in the layers dock.