[digiday]

Hi all,

Is there a stock filter or one that can be added to GIMP that sort of rounds the edges of sharp parts of an image?

I'm looking for a filter or effect that can round the sharp edges of a bitmap image of a font, to give it that 'Xerox Machine' effect where a sharp font looses it's sharp corners and gets a rounded effect from being copied over and over.

I already tried the 'Gaussian Blur' filter, but that just creates soft edges and not the rounded corners that I'm looking for. The effect that I'm looking for is not fuzzy or blurred, but is more of a 'rounded corners' effect... it can be seen in the attached image that is below.

Thanks!

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[lylejk]

If you port your text to path, there is a way to smooth a path. You can then fill your path with the color of choice.

http://registry.gimp.org/node/20069

[digiday]

Thanks lylejk,

At the risk of posting a link to another forum, this best explains what I was actually trying to do and the best technique for doing that...

http://gimpforums.co...=12517#pid12517

Thanks for your input.

[lylejk]

Ahh; you want to sharpen a blurred text. There was a Script-fu that does this, but also, you can try a cool G'MIC (a GIMP Plugin) preset called Black and White Stamp.

Blurred Text:



After Black and White Stamp:

[digiday]

lylejk,

If you transpose your words "sharpen" and "blurred", then you're getting warmer.

Thanks.