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Working with Hand Written Text Phillip Bruce 27 Dec 20:29
  Working with Hand Written Text Thomi Richards 27 Dec 23:52
   Working with Hand Written Text Sam Jones 28 Dec 01:37
pbbruce@mindspring.com 07 Oct 20:15
  Working with Hand Written Text Jeff Trefftzs 28 Dec 02:31
Phillip Bruce
2002-12-27 20:29:33 UTC (about 21 years ago)

Working with Hand Written Text

Hi,

I have a Hand Written Text that I want to make into a Nice Logo. How is that best accomplished. I'm using gimp 1.2.1

So far I use lasso to capture the text and have pasted it onto the background I want. But I want to bold out the text itself so it can look rounded and stand out more. The text is white and the background is light purple.

Also maybe a way to make the logo sparkle at certain points of the image.

I appreciate it.

Thomi Richards
2002-12-27 23:52:52 UTC (about 21 years ago)

Working with Hand Written Text

So far I use lasso to capture the text and have pasted it onto the background I want. But I want to bold out the text itself so it can look rounded and stand out more. The text is white and the background is light purple.

perhaps selecting the text, then going to RMB -> selection -> grow and then filling in the new selection with more white? just a guess, but that's how i'd do it...

Sam Jones
2002-12-28 01:37:48 UTC (about 21 years ago)

Working with Hand Written Text

perhaps selecting the text, then going to RMB -> selection -> grow and then filling in the new selection with more white? just a guess, but that's how i'd do it...

Or you could do Filters->Blur->Gaussian Blur (maybe to 3 units) with Image->Colors->Levels to change the surrounding grey to black. This suggestion is only a slightly-modified version of 'How to Clean Up a Fax or Scan' from Kai's Power Tips
(http://www.pixelfoundry.com/Tips/KPT4/KPT4.html). A very oldy (these are the tips that first sold me on Photoshop eight years ago), but it's a goodie).

Jeff Trefftzs
2002-12-28 02:31:00 UTC (about 21 years ago)

Working with Hand Written Text

I've read a couple of the responses so far and here's yet another idea.

Start by placing your text on its own transparent layer. This allows you to use any of the logo scripts found in /Script-fu/Alpha_to_Logo menu directly, or to deal with the text separately if none of the existing logo scripts appeals.

To make your text appear 3-dimensional, try making yet another copy of it on another transparent layer, blurring it by some modest amount, depending on the width of the lines, and using the blurred version as a bump map for the unblurred version. Make the bump mapped layer and the background layers visible and see how you like the result. This is a fairly common idiom in the GIMP, and you will run into it often.

HTH,

--Jeff

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