On Wednesday 25 March 2009, CJ wrote:

I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional.

I don't know what your image looks like, but if you need a high resolution image, sometimes it's easiest to recreate those parts with vector graphics. Many fonts have clef symbols that could be used for this purpose. You might even want to use a vector graphics application like inkscape for rubber stamps, but that depends on your specific problem, of course.

Daniel

go here http://openclipart.org/
then type in the search box "clef"
save the ones you want then set the size you need in inkscape then export them from there as png files and open in gimp.

hope this helps. openclipart is very useful for such things as this.

Regards Pete

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:57 +0100, CJ wrote:

I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional.
The only way I can see to sharpen the image is to scale it up then use the pen and ink tool to sharpen the edges - filling in where the pixilation leaves a jagged edge.

I am really new to using the Gimp and can't really see how using the mouse to guide the pen can work.
AM I missing something?... or is there a better way to accomplish what I need?

Thanks

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go here http://openclipart.org/
then type in the search box "clef"
save the ones you want then set the size you need in inkscape then export them from there as png files and open in gimp.

hope this helps. openclipart is very useful for such things as this.

Regards Pete

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:57 +0100, CJ wrote:

I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional.
The only way I can see to sharpen the image is to scale it up then use the pen and ink tool to sharpen the edges - filling in where the pixilation leaves a jagged edge.

I am really new to using the Gimp and can't really see how using the mouse to guide the pen can work.
AM I missing something?... or is there a better way to accomplish what I need?

Thanks

Thanks for the reply Pete.

I did find an image but not both bass and treble clefts with the musical staves which is what I need.

I've uploaded andimage to imagebin

http://imagebin.org/42844

This is similar to the image I'm trying to work on. The actual image is proprietary so making it over from scratch is not my first choice.

From my upload you can see that the image has a number of jagged edges - I

need to smooth them out.

I may try one of the vector graphics programs as you mentin but altering the image I have seems to be the easiest thing to do at this point.

Curt

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Peter Russell wrote:

go here http://openclipart.org/
then type in the search box "clef"
save the ones you want then set the size you need in inkscape then export them from there as png files and open in gimp.

hope this helps. openclipart is very useful for such things as this.

Regards Pete

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:57 +0100, CJ wrote:

I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft

symbols

that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs

to

look professional.
The only way I can see to sharpen the image is to scale it up then use

the

pen and ink tool to sharpen the edges - filling in where the pixilation

leaves

a jagged edge.

I am really new to using the Gimp and can't really see how using the

mouse to

guide the pen can work.
AM I missing something?... or is there a better way to accomplish what I need?

Thanks

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On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Curt Tresenriter wrote:

Thanks for the reply Pete.

I did find an image but not both bass and treble clefts with the musical staves which is what I need.

I've uploaded andimage to imagebin

http://imagebin.org/42844

Rosegarden should be able to give you this exact image as pdf, I think.

Daniel

CJ wrote:

an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional. or is there a better way to accomplish what I need?

When I needed something similar, I downloaded a copy of the Bach Musicological font from the web (I actually downloaded from a different site, as I have had this for some years) . With GIMP, I'd use this with
the text tool, set to display the characters to the size you need.

ns

Neil,

That would be a life (and time) saver!

Thanks Neil, i humbly accept your offer.

The Bach fonts have me more confused than I was as I'm nor graphics person and just beginning on the Gimp learning curve.

This will ultimately be a rubber stamp approximately 1&5/16 x 2" so I'm not sure what size is necessary but it does need to be 500dpi in it's final form.

Thanks again,

Curt

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Curt

I do quite a bit of work with music notation software, and in the worst case, can give you a high resolution, non-pixelated image identical to that you uploaded in any size you require.

ns

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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden

Sorry!
Noel

That would be a life (and time) saver!

Thanks Noel, i humbly accept your offer.

The Bach fonts have me more confused than I was as I'm nor graphics person and just beginning on the Gimp learning curve.

This will ultimately be a rubber stamp approximately 1&5/16 x 2" so I'm not sure what size is necessary but it does need to be 500dpi in it's final form.

Thanks again,

Curt

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Curt

I do quite a bit of work with music notation software, and in the worst case, can give you a high resolution, non-pixelated image identical to that you uploaded in any size you require.

ns

--
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden

--
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden