[Gimp-user] Help needed with text
Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. Text to selection, select top layer with photo (make sure he can be transparent), press button Del. Dmitry, Thank you for the reply, but I have had no success with this problem as yet. In your reply...(make sure he can be transparent), how do I do that? Thanks Tom -- Tom C. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Help needed with text
I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. -- Tom C. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. Short hint: Text to selection, change to mask, fill with black(or white, whatever you want) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. Short hint: Text to selection, change to mask, fill with black(or white, whatever you want) Daniel, Thank you for replying. I must not be getting your hint. I add my two layers, add a mask (regular) to the top layer. Bring up text and add it. Then I select add text to selection then I select the mack and fill with black. I tried FG and BG. No luck. What am I doing wrong? -- Tom C. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. Short hint: Text to selection, change to mask, fill with black(or white, whatever you want) Daniel, Thank you for replying. I must not be getting your hint. I add my two layers, add a mask (regular) to the top layer. Bring up text and add it. Then I select add text to selection then I select the mack and fill with black. I tried FG and BG. No luck. What am I doing wrong? Daniel, I should add that I did get the opposite of what I wanted to work. All of the top layer went transparent and the text stayed. I want the text to go transparent, so the parts of the underlying picture shows through the text. -- Tom C. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: then I select the mask and fill with black. I tried FG and BG. If the mask is white before, that layer should've been completely opaque, so filling the selection with black (simply dragdrop from the color patch onto the image) should make the layer below shine through. Of course, if the upper layer doesn't have a mask yet, simply choosing from selection (inverted) when creating the mask would've been the most straightforward way. Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
