Font scaling looks choppy
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| Font scaling looks choppy | vr | 01 Nov 17:00 |
| Font scaling looks choppy | phanisvara das | 01 Nov 17:48 |
| Font scaling looks choppy | vr | 01 Nov 18:07 |
| Font scaling looks choppy | phanisvara das | 01 Nov 18:33 |
| Font scaling looks choppy | phanisvara das | 01 Nov 18:52 |
| Font scaling looks choppy | Sven Neumann | 01 Nov 19:04 |
Font scaling looks choppy
I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out.
I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3. Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.
My end result is a choppy unpleasant looking white logo with a black border.
Is there a better technique to use to get a smoother, cleaner finished look?
Font scaling looks choppy
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote:
I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out.
I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3. Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.
My end result is a choppy unpleasant looking white logo with a black border.
i'm not sure where your text gets choppy; i followed the instructions you outlined, and got a decent looking outlined text. of course, before using the bucket filler, i inserted a new layer underneath the text layer.
yesterday i came across an article that describes how to produce nice looking glossy text; perhaps you find that useful:
-- phani.
Font scaling looks choppy
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:18:27 +0530, phanisvara das wrote:
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote:
I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something
to
stand out.
I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select
white
for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool
I
stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click
the
text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3.
Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.My end result is a choppy unpleasant looking white logo with a black border.
i'm not sure where your text gets choppy; i followed the instructions
you
outlined, and got a decent looking outlined text. of course, before
using
the bucket filler, i inserted a new layer underneath the text layer.
yesterday i came across an article that describes how to produce nice looking glossy text; perhaps you find that useful:
glassy-wallpaper-on-gimp/>
-- phani.
I've been retracing my steps trying different things all morning and it seems (for me) the inner white text gets choppy when scaled to fill the canvas every time. I tried creating the image great big to scale it down but it does the same thing. I also tried the sharpen filter up to 99% but no luck. With my limited experience I can't think of a way around this yet.
Thank you for the link, I will check it out.
Font scaling looks choppy
On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:37:33 pm vr wrote:
I've been retracing my steps trying different things all morning and it seems (for me) the inner white text gets choppy when scaled to fill the canvas every time.
that probably means that you converted the text layer. as long as it remains a text layer, you can scale it without quality loss. once it gets rasterized, by merging the layer down to the next one per example, scaling will create fuzzy edges, etc.
make sure that you don't change the text layer to anything else until all your scaling and re-sizing has been done.
Font scaling looks choppy
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote:
I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3. Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.
wait a sec--what i wrote earlier isn't right. i tried your steps again, and found that once you change the size of the text with the resize tool, the resulting image isn't a vector image anymore, means it can't be scaled without quality loss.
you'll have to adjust the text size by editing the font size in the toolbox. then move the text layer to the exact position you want it. you can add borders or whatever on additional layers beneath the text layer (or above it, depending on what you want to do).
Font scaling looks choppy
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 11:00 -0500, vr wrote:
I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out.
I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3. Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.
It's better to adjust the font size of the text layer using the text tool than to scale it. Adjusting the font size will cause text to be re-rendered at the given size.
Sven
