Merry-go-round

[fudgetusk]

(02-06-2018, 11:02 AM)Blighty Wrote:

(02-06-2018, 10:47 AM)fudgetusk Wrote: How did you make the text wobbly?

Done with this:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-bend-path

Different, but may interest you:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-text-along-path

Oh. I have no idea what that is! Maybe smudge tool could achieve a similar effect.

[rich2005]

You can use the Gimp iWarp tool or Curve Bend tools, perhaps

But for great fun, mess around with the regular Gimp text tool. Changing sizes, fonts and baseline.

Then either put that on a single path or as this example use ofnuts bend path plugin: https://i.imgur.com/xp0ATgS.jpg

Not difficult, look at the threads Blighty referenced. Require more details, ask in the General Questions section.

[Ofnuts]

(02-08-2018, 10:32 AM)fudgetusk Wrote:

(02-06-2018, 11:02 AM)Blighty Wrote:

(02-06-2018, 10:47 AM)fudgetusk Wrote: How did you make the text wobbly?

Done with this:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-bend-path

Different, but may interest you:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-text-along-path

Oh. I have no idea what that is! Maybe smudge tool could achieve a similar effect.

Most bitmap-based tools make the text too blurry. To avoid this you work on the path which is the outline of the text and once that is distorted/warped/bent, you render the text from it, so the resulting distorted/warped/bent text is exactly as sharp as the initial text.

[Espermaschine]

(02-08-2018, 01:00 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Most bitmap-based tools make the text too blurry.

But why is that ? I thought fonts are vectors....

[Ofnuts]

(02-08-2018, 02:53 PM)Espermaschine Wrote:

(02-08-2018, 01:00 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Most bitmap-based tools make the text too blurry.

But why is that ? I thought fonts are vectors....

Which is why I said "bitmap-based". When the text is a bitmap, any change in the text involves interpolating pixels, which makes the text blurry.