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anyone good with GIMP?
Monday, April 28, 2008 9:58 PM
I need some help making a sig in GIMP. I think I know what to do, but I don't know how to go about it.

basically, I have a pic of my car. I want to basically overlay my screen name over it, so it looks like my screen name is being "forced through" from the back side in whatever font.

I don't know if I explained it well enough. LOL and no, it's not this sig.



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Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:05 AM
i dont really know anything about gimp but cant be too much different than photoshop. this link my help youout
GIMP TUTORIALS




Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:29 AM
You need to put in a layer with your name on it, set the opacity of the text to 0% then add a border around the text, outset or inset should do it. Play around with it till you like it. I know this isn't very descriptive but it should give you a place to start.


-Chris

Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:50 PM
thanks guys. I'm trying now. failing horribly, but I'm trying.



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Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:52 PM
what I came up with:



could be better, but I'm learning.



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Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:37 AM
hey, not bad for first time, you will get better trust me. just take practice



Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:58 AM
the major problem was that the pic was taken at night. I tried to lighten it up a bit, but it started to wash out. I'm going to mess with it some more tonight to see what I can do.



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Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:32 AM
ive tried gimp for a few things, but i just suck at this sort of thing, so i didnt do too well.




Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:51 AM
gimp is a decent program but it really just falls short in the text department. sorry but that is where photoshop is way better.



Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:42 PM






Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:55 PM
well that was random





Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Friday, May 02, 2008 12:34 AM
Joe loves my posts for some reason.

sometimes I think he's hitting on me.



Desert Tuners

“When you come across a big kettle of crazy, it’s best not to stir it.”


Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:22 PM
FReQ Z (ikE-Zed) wrote:the major problem was that the pic was taken at night. I tried to lighten it up a bit, but it started to wash out. I'm going to mess with it some more tonight to see what I can do.


Did you actually use "brightness" go and mess with "Levels" it changes the black and white levels and I've found it to be much better than messing with the brightness and contrast.


-Chris

Re: anyone good with GIMP?
Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:28 PM
yeah, that's what I did.

who'd be up for helping me out with the sig that I want? I don't have Photoshop.

I'll email you some hi-res pics, and a description of what I want.



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