Hi,

This isn't really a Gimp question, but I'm having trouble finding a better place to post it - please feel free to redirect me if appropriate.  I've been feeding xml files to the Gegl command line application to process photos - applying a crop, doing rotations, compositing, adding text, etc.  But now I've been asked to add dropshadows and strokes to the text.  Dropshadows were easy... but it looks like to apply a stroke, I'd need to somehow define a path around the text.  I've been all over the (somewhat sparse) documentation, but I can't find anything that even gives me a starting point on how to do that.  Does anyone here have any suggestions for doing this in an automated fashion?

Thanks,
Jason

These are made by duplicating the same text layer

   

First one is Fliters > Noise > CIE Ich Noise and the second one is made using a custom pattern I built from a noise image. My initial goal way to make the second for which I had to use the pattern.

I was hoping to learn how to make the density of noise less in the output. Currently, it is either too much noise or medium noise. No way to do as in the one created by the pattern ( less noise ).

Any help will be great. Thanks.

Greetings
I am a new user.  Used to use PS 7 or so, but with any changes in computer can no longer register my copy....

One thing I liked in PS was the scanner app.  The one in GIMP seems much more primitive.
Does this mean I don't know how to use it to the fullest, or it is more primitive?
I am no genius at this, but I could easily change some settings and dpi.  This one seems less detailed.

Is there something fancier available, or you reckon I should get "fancy" with the post-scan manipulation.

I do want to remark that the changes in nomenclature make it take some time to adjust from PS.  Yeah, yeah, yeah....read the manual.

denno

I took a picture of an antique radio dial and I want to clean it up to print a new face. I've got it cleaned up but I want to change the color of the text on the black background. Is there a way to change the color of the text only to another color in one action? I'm new to GIMP and the controls are a bit overwhelming. Thanks for any help.

Ken

I've tried using the resynth plugin and I have not succeeded. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I don't know. I'm including a video of exactly what I wish to accomplish with Gimp. (In the video it was done with Photoshop) https://youtu.be/jO9EFFsWV3c

With the introduction of a more compact Tools Options Dock there are some changes. The sliders in particular are narrower than before and the way adjustments are made, slightly different.  

Example for the brush size slider, and apart from entering a value directly or using the little up/down arrows;

Old style: The slider is divided into top and bottom halves, Fast or slow increments depend on where the mouse cursor is positioned
New style: The default is fast, for slow use the right mouse button.

   

Keyboard input: 
The defaults are the square brackets ]  [ to increment the size in steps of  one and alt-]  alt-[ for increments in steps of 10.
A quick demo: https://i.imgur.com/BfBoIuF.mp4
These, same as most keyboard shortcuts can be changed in Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts  if required.

edit: To revert to the old slider setup, use the Edit -> Preferences menu as this post https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-How-do...2#pid17282

When it wouldn't even display the brush size I wanted (despite listing the number I'd entered, 1) that was IT for me.

hi - 

I am having trouble using the selection I have made with the scissors.

I have tried "create alpha channel," "invert," and delete, but it simply does not delete anything. 

Any tips on how I can use the scissor tool successfully?

What I am trying to do is cut out the outline of a flower, then post it on another layer in which I will add text.

I had an old logo which I traced over (text and rectangles). I created a new layer for each rectangle as I wanted to align the shapes later. I've since found out that guides work on layers, not the shapes in them, and was hoping on some advice on what to do as a don't see a resize to contents option for layers or a way to get the shapes, not layers, to snap to guides.

Any help would be apreciated

Probably something very simple but I'm stuck. I have a png file of an arrow. I want the arrow a color and the bg transparent. Currently the arrow in transparent and the bg is color. It seems this should be a simple fix.

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