On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:02:09AM -0400, Roger D Vargas wrote:

Im trying to make some buttons for a web site. The buttons could be text or an small image plus text. I havent found a way to draw something like a glow around the image and text for highlighted buttons, can somebody give me an idea about this?

i think i was able to do something like this with Alpha To Logo-->Alien Glow but to maintain the original layer, i needed to work on a copy lower than the original.

carol

On 10/4/05, Roger D Vargas wrote:

Im trying to make some buttons for a web site. The buttons could be text or an small image plus text. I havent found a way to draw something like a glow around the image and text for highlighted buttons, can somebody give me an idea about this?

Various Script-Fu scripts included with GIMP; e.g. Alpha To Logo-->Alien Glow or similar.

Simply use colour-to-alpha on the background colour or use the magic contious-region select and delete. Note, you'll need an alpha channel on your image (right-click the layer in the main image and click "Add Alpha Channel" if it's not greyed out). Also, IIRC, the script works on one layer and does various things (e.g. copies it), so if your logo + text are seperate and you want different glows, you may need to make them seperate one-layer images and then figure out how to organize and fiddle with the various layers to get the effect you want.

Another idea would be, in a new layer under existing object, to take a selection of the background, invert the selection (so you're selecting the object), grow the selection, make it a colour, and then make it semitransparent (I believe a slider on the layers dialogue does this) - and then put in a background colour layer behind all that (meaning your image must have alpha... like above).

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