Sorry i haven't gotten back to you sooner. I've been super busy with visiting my parents this week, but I'm home now. :) To answer your question...yes, GIMP is what I used for my kid's pictures also. Funny that you did something with a rose...I did this just the other night. I used a picture of a rose as a background and then found some other pictures of just different roses that were already cut out and such. I had to cut out the bird from another picture and did different resizing and rotating for them...
I have quite a few backgrounds and "accessories" for my decorating. I get it free on different digital scrapbooking blogs and sites. There are a couple blogs that the people make entire sets that are "freebies". I am going to start digital scrapbooking because in the long run, it is cheaper because you can use the same things over and over again.
Here is a bonus for you...I was learning how to play with different effects you can do to writing. This is a combination of a blur, embossing, and colorizing. I'm currently learning how to make writing look like glass and gel.
Can you tell me what comes up when you select "embossing"??? I'm not familiar with your editing program.
When I am doing something...like the one for Luke, I usually write the text, then duplicate it. Now, in Gimp, everything is a separate layer, so the original text is one layer and then the dup turns into another layer. I select the dup layer and make that layer the same size as my finished size so that it doesn't cut anything off by accident. I also make the original text layer the same as the finished size (I usually just work with like 400x300 pixels or something like that). Then I usually invert the color and do a guassian blur on it of at least 5 pixels. This gives it that slightly fuzzy look around the text...the more pixels to the blur, the fuzzier it looks. Then I merge the dup layer onto the original layer to make it one layer and then click on the auto-crop feature so that I can move the text around easily if I need to. Then I go to the embossing tool. Now, for GIMP, there are 3 things that you can change for the embossing. I always have the preview box selected so that I can see what is changing as I change the different numbers. The three different things are "azimuth", "elevation", and "depth". I believe for Luke's I had them set at 30, 45, and 20 respectively.
I'm hoping that helps you a little....like I said, I am not familiar with your program. I really like GIMP because I can use things in other formats on it and I can save it as different formats as well. This makes it nice when your on a site and you want to save different fonts or brushes....I will be learning how to save new fonts this weekend...I hven't had time to try doing that yet, but I have a TON of sites with fonts on them. I LOVE fonts...and I love making "word art" which is what that little saying is up in the roses pic. I found that saying, but I did the different fonts and such all by myself. Oh...and the large word "rose" behind it was just regular text that I lowered the opicity on....maybe to a 50 or 60 on that pic.
ETA: by the way...that picture was a color photo. I desaturated it and then played with different hues and stuff to get that color...I love that picture as well. It is by far my favorite one that I have done soo far.
Last edited by hisgal2; Sep 5th, 2008 at 07:16 PM.
That is pretty much what embossing does to text, I just colorize it also. The embossing makes the text look raised...there is usually another step that I have seen other people use. I'm going to PM you something...ok?
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