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ORIGINAL: wolfythegreat

hey can you help me on some text isues? i need to know how to do some cool text effects! THX.

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ORIGINAL: dudenextdoor

i have them now but i don't realy know how to use em

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ORIGINAL: memorex788

what type of saving like jpg does aq accept

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ORIGINAL: wolfythegreat

well thx for the fonts but what about some more interesting borders?

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1)Open up your gimp and created an image window. do what ever you need to do then add your text (i would advise a big fat text so you can see the results better but any size is ok).
2)Make sure that the text colour is white, any other colour wont work.
3)Press CRTL-L and the layer box should apear some there. in that box you should see your text. right click it then scroll down to the bottom of the menue and click Alpha to Selection.
4)By now, the (as i like to call them) marching ants should be circleing your text. this is called a selection. press CTRL-I to invert the selection. now the text and the whole image window outline should have a selection/marching ants around it.
5)Add drop shadow at this point: Script-Fu>> Shadow>> Drop Shadow. make the 'Y' and the 'X' 2, make the 'Blur Radious' 5, keep the colour black and uncheck 'Alow Resizing'. i would suggested expanding those attributes if you have text over size 70 and up. make sure blur radious is always bigger than Y and X and Y and X are same numbers.
6)Add another drop shadow andthis time change 'Y' and 'X' to 1, make 'Blur Radious' 0, make the drop shadow colour white and keep 'Alow Resizeing' uncheecked.
7)By this point you should have an amount of 3 layers. the White & Black drop shadows and the text layer. Merge ONLY THESE layers together
8)Just to make sure, on the image window click Select>> None. if you cant click none then dont worry about it.
9)On the merged layer right click it, go to the bottom of the menue and select Alpha to Selection. the whole text should now be surrounded by a selection/marching ants. now lets add a brevel: Script-Fu>> Decor>> Add Bevel and keep it at defult 5. uncheeck Work on Copy.
10)Now all thats left to do is add drop shadow agian: Script-Fu>> Shadow>> Drop Shadow and reset it so that the 'Y' is 2 and the 'X' is 2 also. change the Blurr radious so that its on five and change the colour to black. hit ok.
11)All thats left to do iss merge the text down on the drop shadow. set the text mode to either Value, Burn, Dodge, Soft Light or Overlay (i always go for Value). you can now move the text any where you want on ur image.
12)to make it stand out more i would suggect duplicting the text a number of times then merging them down. keep doing that untill you get the effect that you like.
13)Your DONE!

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None Detailed:

1)Open up your gimp and created an image window. do what ever you need to do then add your text (i would advise a big fat text so you can see the results better but any size is ok).
2)Make sure that the text colour is white, any other colour wont work.
3)Press CRTL-L and the layer box should apear some there. in that box you should see your text. right click it then scroll down to the bottom of the menue and click Alpha to Selection.
4)By now, the (as i like to call them) marching ants should be circleing your text. this is called a selection. press CTRL-I to invert the selection. now the text and the whole image window outline should have a selection/marching ants around it.
5)Add drop shadow at this point: Script-Fu>> Shadow>> Drop Shadow. make the 'Y' and the 'X' 2, make the 'Blur Radious' 5, keep the colour black and uncheck 'Alow Resizing'. i would suggested expanding those attributes if you have text over size 70 and up. make sure blur radious is always bigger than Y and X and Y and X are same numbers.
6)On the image window press CRTL-I agian and then add brevel: Script-Fu>> Decor>> Add Bevel. keep the defult 5 and uncheeck Work on Copy.
7)Add drop shadow agian: Script-Fu>> Shadow>> Drop Shadow and keep the same attributes. hit OK.
8) merge all drop shadow layers to the text. select either Value, Burn, Dodge, Soft Light or Overlay (i always go for Value) for the text mode. YOR DONE!