It worked great first time! Thank you sooo much. I'll use this a million times!
* Eric Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030607 12:29]: > I'd do it with a mask. > > Try this. > 1. Render the text in black on a white background (same layer) > 2. Invert the image (so the text is white and background black) > 3. Make a new transparent layer > 4. Right click on the transparent layer in the layer dialog box, and > select "add layer mask" - Hit OK (the default is fine) > 5. Now return to the layer w/text and select all and copy. > 6. Next, select the layer mask in the layer dialog box, not the > transparent image, the mask (to the right of the image) > 7. Now paste what you copied in step 5 and anchor the image. The should > paste the image (w/text) into the mask. > 8. Now turn off the bottom layer (the one w/text) in the layer dialog box > (the eye-ball) so it doesn't show. > 9. Lastly, select the transparent image in the layer dialog box (just left > of the mask) and fill it whatever pattern/color you so desire. > > Hope that works. Let me know if it didn't. > Eric Pierce > > > > I need to be able to take text with anti-aliasing and fill it with a > > pattern or a gradient or an image, this is for the web. I can't figure > > out how to use either layer masks or what in order to maintain > > different transparencies in the text that is anti-aliased. I have > > stuggled with this a while, have looked on the web, and in Bunks book, > > and I canīt figure it out. Can someone steer me in the right > > direction, or give me some simple instructions? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Judy > > > > > > -- > > Judy Wilson, PO Box 98, Corozal Town, Belize _/*]; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.corozal.bz/jwdesigns/ | |:' > > If the eye is a window to the soul, then a tear is | /' > > what gives the soul the possibility of a rainbow. |_/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > > > -- Judy Wilson, PO Box 98, Corozal Town, Belize _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.corozal.bz/jwdesigns/ | |:' If the eye is a window to the soul, then a tear is | /' what gives the soul the possibility of a rainbow. |_/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
