logo creation for OOTP2007 (Question for GIMP users)

Jermanfu · 02-14-2007, 05:03 AM

So after seeing the thread for the incredible logo options 2007 will have, I am about to start up my logo creation again.

I had been using PSP 9, but my HD crashed about 6 months ago and I lost my license info. SO, instead of shelling out another $70 bucks or so for version XI, I downloaded GIMP to test it out.

I am liking it so far, but I wanted some info from some other GIMP users out there.

1) I would like to make a template for my circular logos. In PSP, I could create the circles, then "center" them on the grid. This made it easy to make symmetrical layers on top of other layers. I don't see how to do this in GIMP. Anyone have an idea?

2) I finally figured out how to do arcing text under Xtns>>Script-Fu>>Logos>>Text Circle! however, it seems to always create the text as its own file. Is there a way to create this text on an already existing file as an overlapping layer? And if so, how do you go about doing that and then aligning it to your logo?

Any other hints you GIMP experts would like to pass along would be great as well. Thanks in advance guys

Jermanfu · 02-14-2007, 11:13 AM

bump. Just keeping in the front page for a bit

cephasjames · 02-14-2007, 02:06 PM

I'm a GIMP user and I've read this in hopes that someone else that does what you're talking about can help, because I cannot. I tried making circle logos using knuckler's template (which is very good and located in his sig), but for whatever reason mine always ended up looking really choppy around the outer circle.

I've also fiddled with with the Text Cirlce thing and have not really figured it out.

That's why I got in the busines of the generic logos... someone helped me figure out how to do them 'easily.'

eriqjaffe · 02-14-2007, 02:33 PM

These links may be of use:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-align-layers.html
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-image-grid.html

The main page for GIMP docs:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/

Craig Scarborough · 02-14-2007, 03:37 PM

Couldn't you write to the makers of PSP and get your license info back? Seems a shame to spend the money and just throw it out the window just because you lost the original license code.

The Wolf · 02-14-2007, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jermanfu

Any other hints you GIMP experts would like to pass along would be great as well. Thanks in advance guys

I'm anything but an expert, but if you are doing anything circular in GIMP it helps to use the polar grid.

Jermanfu · 02-14-2007, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eriqjaffe

These links may be of use:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-align-layers.html
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-image-grid.html

The main page for GIMP docs:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/

Thanks for the responses guys. Eriq, I have been using the help files which I downloaded with the program. That first link I had been paying special attention too but I hadn't been able to get it to work right. I must be doing something wrong.

Craig, I did indeed email Corel about it. Just waiting on a response. Since it's been about 3 or 4 days, I am thinking I might be out of luck. We'll see. But I'll play around with GIMP until then.

The Wolf, that sounds interesting. Could you give me an explanation of this Polar Grid? Not sure I am familiar with that.

The Wolf · 02-15-2007, 01:55 AM

You know how you can snap your drawing node to the nearest grid intersection? Instead of the grid to which you can snap being the normal rectangular grid or an isometric grid, with a polar grid it's a circular grid with a kind of a central pole. It makes it easier to do circular work. I hope that makes some kind of sense.

See page 130 of the GIMP manual, which you can find online at ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ gimp/docs/gimp-user-manual.pdf

02-14-2007, 05:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jermanfu All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, LA. Posts: 863	logo creation for OOTP2007 (Question for GIMP users) So after seeing the thread for the incredible logo options 2007 will have, I am about to start up my logo creation again. I had been using PSP 9, but my HD crashed about 6 months ago and I lost my license info. SO, instead of shelling out another $70 bucks or so for version XI, I downloaded GIMP to test it out. I am liking it so far, but I wanted some info from some other GIMP users out there. 1) I would like to make a template for my circular logos. In PSP, I could create the circles, then "center" them on the grid. This made it easy to make symmetrical layers on top of other layers. I don't see how to do this in GIMP. Anyone have an idea? 2) I finally figured out how to do arcing text under Xtns>>Script-Fu>>Logos>>Text Circle! however, it seems to always create the text as its own file. Is there a way to create this text on an already existing file as an overlapping layer? And if so, how do you go about doing that and then aligning it to your logo? Any other hints you GIMP experts would like to pass along would be great as well. Thanks in advance guys __________________ "I took the two most expensive asprins in history." - Wally Pipp on his decision to sit out a game with a headache which let Lou Gehrig into the lineup for the first time. http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a121/Jermanfu/

02-14-2007, 11:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jermanfu All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, LA. Posts: 863	bump. Just keeping in the front page for a bit __________________ "I took the two most expensive asprins in history." - Wally Pipp on his decision to sit out a game with a headache which let Lou Gehrig into the lineup for the first time. http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a121/Jermanfu/

02-14-2007, 02:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
cephasjames Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Michiana Posts: 2,528	I'm a GIMP user and I've read this in hopes that someone else that does what you're talking about can help, because I cannot. I tried making circle logos using knuckler's template (which is very good and located in his sig), but for whatever reason mine always ended up looking really choppy around the outer circle. I've also fiddled with with the Text Cirlce thing and have not really figured it out. That's why I got in the busines of the generic logos... someone helped me figure out how to do them 'easily.' __________________ Most in circle format at silvam14's photobucket site. CAMPAIGN for League Associations in OOTP10

02-15-2007, 01:55 AM	#8 (permalink)
The Wolf Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Baying at the moon Posts: 3,434	You know how you can snap your drawing node to the nearest grid intersection? Instead of the grid to which you can snap being the normal rectangular grid or an isometric grid, with a polar grid it's a circular grid with a kind of a central pole. It makes it easier to do circular work. I hope that makes some kind of sense. See page 130 of the GIMP manual, which you can find online at ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ gimp/docs/gimp-user-manual.pdf __________________ __________________ "The main problem we face is that when it's 8 AM in London and 3 AM in New York and midnight in L.A., it's still 1968 to Democrats and 1566 in the Middle East." Last edited by The Wolf : 02-15-2007 at 01:56 AM.

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02-14-2007, 03:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
Craig Scarborough OOTP Developments Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 398	Couldn't you write to the makers of PSP and get your license info back? Seems a shame to spend the money and just throw it out the window just because you lost the original license code.