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  1. In Topic: how to make "vector"

    Today, 05:04 PM

    View Postfredep57, on 19 June 2013 - 02:24 PM, said:

    OK, hope this is the right place for this.

    I want to make the picture on the left into the one like the picture on the right. These are not the pictures I will use but are some I got off the web. Any tutorial (video??) would be great.

    Thanks
    E


    If you want to do vector graphics your tool of choice is Inkscape, not Gimp. Inkscape also has a function ("trace bitmap", IIRC) to extract the main features of a bitmap image as vectors. There is also a "potrace" utility somewhere (but Inkscape may be using it under the hood for "trace bitmap"). Vector graphics at the level above are definitely not beginner's work :)

  2. In Topic: Mask a layer on top of another

    Today, 04:57 PM

    View Postallelopath, on 19 June 2013 - 01:25 PM, said:

    @ofnuts
    Thanks for your reply. I've tried your suggestion, but not getting it. I must be missing a step. Here is what I am doing:
    - select the text layer
    - menu -> "Layer/Transparency/Alpha to selection" (now the outline letters are selected)
    - select the background layer
    - hit delete button
    - no change in image

    If I do the following steps, then the entire background is cleared:
    - select the text layer
    - menu -> "Layer/Transparency/Alpha to selection" (now the outline letters are selected)
    - menu -> Select/Invert
    - select the background layer
    - hit delete button
    - background image deleted

    Can you tell me what I am missing?
    Thanks again.

    View Postofnuts, on 19 June 2013 - 07:38 AM, said:

    On the layer with the letters: "Layer/Transparency/Alpha to selection". This gives you a selection shaped as the text. You can then move to another layer and hit [delete] to delete that shape in the other layer (you can also invert the selection first to delete everything but that shape). Of course the original text layer is no longer useful and can be made invisible.


    I'm assuming that the text layer is transparent outside of the letters (letters on transparency), as produced by the text tool. From what you get, either the text layer is not selected when you do the alpha-to-selection, or your text layer isn't transparent outside of the text (in which case there are ways to make it so).

  3. In Topic: Mask a layer on top of another

    Today, 07:38 AM

    View Postallelopath, on 19 June 2013 - 01:59 AM, said:

    I need guidance with a mask. I have 2 layers and I want to mask one through the other. I've attached a png showing what I want. I tried to attach an .xcf file, but it won't do it, which seems strange for a gimp forum. Anyway, one layer is the text (black outline) and one layer is a colorful background. In the xcf, the background layer is entirely filled with the colorful stuff, but I want it to only show through the interior of the letters (as shown in the png). Can you instruct me on how to do this?

    On the layer with the letters: "Layer/Transparency/Alpha to selection". This gives you a selection shaped as the text. You can then move to another layer and hit [delete] to delete that shape in the other layer (you can also invert the selection first to delete everything but that shape). Of course the original text layer is no longer useful and can be made invisible.

  4. In Topic: Issue with Sliders

    17 June 2013 - 07:22 AM

    Looks like a bug, can you report in bugzilla.gnome.org?

  5. In Topic: I need help editing a comic book (shapes, fonts and borders)

    16 June 2013 - 08:27 PM

    View PostToho, on 16 June 2013 - 04:33 PM, said:

    Hi, I have some experience with GIMP but I am by no means a 'professional' level


    I have installed the fonts but the amount of color editing and customization I can do is very, very small.
    for example I want to take a letter have it colored purple (so far so good) and then give a border to the letter like thin line of yellow (no option that allows me to do this).
    we are talking about pretty big letters here but I cant seem to be able to do this.

    I am trying to edit this pre existing image and trying to enter dialogue bubbles with thin colored borders.
    as for the dialogue/though bubbles themselves I can seem to find any "insert shape" inside gimp, you sometimes characters are yelling or crying or just speaking normally has to be shown by the dialogue bubble but I cant seem to be able to do it.


    I can't quite figure out what you want to do... but some of it may be a matter of paths and stroking them as well as using them as selections for a bucket fill):

    Posted Image

    Top to bottom: in editor (the path is actually obtained from a text layer), used a a selection for a bucket fill, and then used again to stroke a line over the border of the filled area.


    View PostToho, on 16 June 2013 - 04:33 PM, said:

    I have used photoshop before but it is very complex and I feel like I can work with GIMP much more easier and faster but none of these basic options seem to be available. Am I doing something wrong? are there addons to install so I can work easier with than making every single dialogue bubble from scratch? *shudder*


    Bad choice since PS and Gimp are on the same level of power and complexity:)

    View PostToho, on 16 June 2013 - 04:33 PM, said:

    Edit: I am using both the new version and the 2.6 version... I find the new version absolutely terrible, especially when it comes to saving your work as an image file but if necessary I will work with both versions.

    If you do any kind of complex editing (ie, layers, paths, selections...) the new "Save/Export" thing in 2.8 will certainly save your *ss some day. In 2.6 it's very easy to "save" an intermediate version as JPG or PNG and then exit... and lose all the layers/selections/paths.

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