Am Sonntag, den 19.10.2008, 17:17 +0000 schrieb Peter Saffrey:

I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle.

I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial:

http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches

I haven't looked to long into this tutorial, but I just remembered that I had seen a similar screencast for Inkscape here:

http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-071/

Perhaps this helps.

Regards, Tobias

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 17:17 +0000, Peter Saffrey wrote:

I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial:

http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches

I've got as far as adding some text and turning this into a path using Layer->Text to path. I can then do "stroke path" with a brush of my choice. However, I can't work out how to adjust some of the more complex options, such as the direction of brushing and the distance between brush strokes, as described in steps 8 and 9 of the tutorial. How do I do this in the GIMP?

You'll want to create a GIMP Brush Pipe for this. In the brush dialog, open the Pencil Sketch brush as an image (right click on the brush icon in the dialog to get a menu for that). Delete all but two layers. Make one layer a left to right slant and the other a right to left slant (this effectively removes the brush shape from the original brush). Save the image as a brush pipe to your .gimp/brushes directory using ".gih" as the suffix for the filename. A dialog will open that allows you to configure the brush characteristics. Set the spacing to 50 percent (or whatever you feel appropriate), the number of cells to 2 and the first entry for Ranks to 2 and Angular. Put "Stitch" in the Description so you can find this brush later. Save the changes and then reload your brushes dialog. Look for the new "Stich" entry. Stroke your path using this brush.

You'll have to play with the size of the brush. You may need to make multiple versions at different sizes to get the right effect.

I'm not positive this will be exactly what you want, but it's the correct basic process for creating a brush that you need to perform this effect.

Good luck.

The biggest problem is to manage the brush orientation. Having a brush with the same image oriented differently in each layer don't really help.
Of course you can link the orientation with the a tablet pressure, but it's not practical and don't help for path stroking. For now, as far as I know, the only way would br to create 8 brush 0? 45? 90? 135? 180? 225? 270? 305? and to use them with a pen tool alternatively around the letters :(

Inkscape is more suitable for this job

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Philippe D. wrote:

The biggest problem is to manage the brush orientation.

Why? Doesn't it work to link the orientation with 'angle' parameter?

David

Peter Saffrey wrote:

I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle.

I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial:

http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches

The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom brush to draw along this path. Once I've got this working, I can fiddle around with the background and brush type to make it look pretty.

You'll want to take a look at the screencast at http://meetthegimp.org/episode-065-roaring-16-bit/; around minute 12 it explains how to go from a text to a path and how to use this path.

I've got as far as adding some text and turning this into a path using Layer->Text to path. I can then do "stroke path" with a brush of my choice. However, I can't work out how to adjust some of the more complex options, such as the direction of brushing and the distance between brush strokes, as described in steps 8 and 9 of the tutorial. How do I do this in the GIMP?

If I'm successful, I guess I'll write this up in a blog post.

Peter

As another poster mentioned, an image pipe brush might do what you want. The trick is, to get the brush to "follow" the path and rotate appropriately.

This is doable, but due to the limitations of the number of images you can have in a pipe, the available increment of rotation may not be enough for your purposes.

Nevertheless, below is a link to a tutorial I wrote sometime back on how to make such "rotating" image pipe brushes using GAP. You might try it ad see if it gives you what you are after.

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Making-gih-Gimp-Image-Hose-Brushes-in-GAP-21594-1.html

--- On Sun, 10/19/08, Peter Saffrey wrote:

From: Peter Saffrey
Subject: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 1:17 PM I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle.

I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial:

http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches

The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom brush
to draw along this path. Once I've got this working, I can fiddle around with
the background and brush type to make it look pretty.

I've got as far as adding some text and turning this into a path using
Layer->Text to path. I can then do "stroke path" with a brush of my choice.
However, I can't work out how to adjust some of the more complex options, such
as the direction of brushing and the distance between brush strokes, as
described in steps 8 and 9 of the tutorial. How do I do this in the GIMP?

If I'm successful, I guess I'll write this up in a blog post.

Peter