I started by dragging the White point slider down to increase the prominence of the plasma layer, then pushed the Gamma up to emphasize it more. What we want to do is adjust the Gamma and White point sliders. With the Adjust Color Levels dialog, we now want to sharpen up the edges of the mask a little bit: Then we can open the Adjust Color Levels dialog through the menu: To do this, we first make sure the layer mask is active by clicking on it. To make it sharper, we are going to adjust the levels on the mask for that layer. Right now, the mask being used on the plasma layer is a copy of the gaussian blurred text. I want to clean up the edges of the text with what we have so far. It doesn’t look bad, but we can perhaps tighten up the results by adjusting the mask a bit to clarify the edges of the text.
Pick an interesting background color and fill the new layer with this color. (You can click and drag layers to change their order in the palette).
Add a new layer to the image as we did when creating the plasma layer, and place it below the plasma layer. We may now want to add a different colored background to help us fine-tune the results we have so far.
Our image and layers should now look something like this: This will Anchor the selection down onto the mask. On your Layers tab, right click on the text layer we just made, and choose “ New from Visible”.Īlternatively, you can also create a new layer from visible using the menu: Once we’ve gotten the text how we want it, we can now create a new layer from all the visible layers so far (the text layer, and the black background layer). You can see in my example that I’ve changed the font to “Tw Cen MT Bold”.Ĭreating a new layer from all visible layers. This will open a drop-down to scroll through all the fonts that GIMP knows about on your system. In that case, we can change the Font to something better by clicking the icon. You may also not like the font that is chosen by default. For instance, here I’ve chosen to set my Size to 100px. If you want to make your text appear bigger, you can change the Size in the field shown. So let’s have a look at some options on the Text Tool Options palette (left, above). Text Tool Options (left), canvas view (right).Ĭhances are when you first start entering text, it will be very small on your canvas. Once the text boundary box is sized appropriately, we can just type some text. Your text will go into the black box inside the green areas shown above. If you’d like to re-size the box for some reason, you can now click and drag in any of the green areas shown below: Resize handles to modify text box boundary. This is what you should see on your canvas after clicking and dragging from the top-left to the bottom-right to define your text box: You don’t have to worry about being exact at this point, because you can adjust the boundaries of the box after the fact. You can click on the canvas where you’d like the top-left corner of your box to be, and drag the mouse down to the bottom right corner. We can now draw a box on our canvas (image) to hold the text. With the foreground color set, we can now use the Bucket Fill Tool to fill in our image: We want to set the color to black RGB(0, 0, 0): The “Change Foreground Color” dialog allows you to now set the foreground color. Click on the foreground color in the Color area to bring up the “Change Foreground Color” dialog (if your foreground color is already black you don’t have to do this step, but it can’t hurt to learn): The first step to doing so is to make sure that the Foreground Color is appropriately set. The first thing we are going to do is fill our new image with black. Chances are it will be a pure white image at this point (it may be a different color depending on how your GIMP is setup to handle new images - if it is, don’t worry). You’ll be presented with the new image on your canvas. When you’re ready, hit “ OK” to create the new image. You can make this new image any dimensions you want, but for this tutorial I am going to specify a Width of 256 px, and a Height of 128 px. This will open the “Create a New Image” dialog, with options for you to specify:
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