taking half the color out of the back ground

[DibblyDoDar]

Greetings All!

Have just downloaded Gimp on my win 10 machine. but find it all too hard to use so I have looked online for the answers and cant find them. So as one last shot in the dark before I decided not ot go with this back ground and uninstall Gimp and do something ells, I though it might be worth while asking hear first

So what I am doing is a shot of business cards to print. And I have fond a back ground for it. But the problem is when I type black ink over it you can not see it well. So I though A good way to deal with this would be to take half the color out and make it half transparent (think that is what they call it any way). Anyway looked at some videos and stuff online and cant see how to do it. Can i do it and if so how please? 

Thanks

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[zeuspaul]

Have you tried desaturating?

I believe there is a size limitation on files.  What file size is your image?


   

[DibblyDoDar]

(11-26-2024, 03:33 AM)zeuspaul Wrote: Have you tried desaturating?

I believe there is a size limitation on files.  What file size is your image?

Thanks! but that is not really an option i am looking for as it only black and whites the image, meaning that my blakc ink will not show on top of the black color photo

732KB 
Thanks!

[sallyanne]

Couple other things you can do.

Where you have your writing put a small part transparent white box over your picture.

Or depending on the picture you could do your text in black and have a white glow or stroke.

I'll do some and post with my answer shortly

   

   

[DibblyDoDar]

(11-26-2024, 03:56 AM)sallyanne Wrote:

Couple other things you can do.

Where you have your writing put a small part transparent white box over your picture.

Or depending on the picture you could do your text in black and have a white glow or stroke.

I'll do some and post with my answer shortly

Sure 2 good ideas!
But how do you do them (bough)?

[sallyanne]

1st one
a) Put your image into gimp (the size you will need it for your card) Your text will not look sharp if you have to resize it.
b) Add a transparent layer - then using the rectangular select make a rectangle large enough to fit your text in. fill this with white and drop the opacity to 18% or more depending on your taste
c) using the text tool type in the text you need
Or, just incase you have to resize your picture, leave the text part until you put the picture with the semi-transparent box in your business card template.

2nd one
forget about b)
Do c)
d) Then select your text layer. right click and alpha to select.
e) Go to edit stroke selection (Make sure your foreground colour is white) or if you have 'text effects' do the stroke selection from there. It is better.

The last picture shows a glow not a drop shadow. I didn't change the text and now I cannot delete it.

[DibblyDoDar]

(11-26-2024, 05:10 AM)sallyanne Wrote: 1st one
a) Put your image into gimp (the size you will need it for your card) Your text will not look sharp if you have to resize it.
b) Add a transparent layer - then using the rectangular select make a rectangle large enough to fit your text in. fill this with white and drop the opacity to 18% or more depending on your taste
c) using the text tool type in the text you need
Or, just incase you have to resize your picture, leave the text part until you put the picture with the semi-transparent box in your business card template.

I have tried your first option thanks! But the images dont look right and wont work. With out being able to upload them hear then there is not more i can say on the matter

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(11-26-2024, 05:10 AM)sallyanne Wrote: 2nd one
forget about b)
Do c)
d) Then select your text layer. right click and alpha to select.
e) Go to edit stroke selection (Make sure your foreground colour is white) or if you have 'text effects' do the stroke selection from there. It is better.

The last picture shows a glow not a drop shadow. I didn't change the text and now I cannot delete it.

dont understand any of that!

[sallyanne]

Dibbly have a look at this post 
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-How-to...+a+picture
Then you may be able to post a  picture. I do not think they have any limit here on how many posts you have under your belt before being able to.

[denzjos]

A way to make black text more visible. Type the text (black text color here). Make a duplicate of the text layer. Make the original text layer active and select the text on this layer (with the text tool) and set the text color to white (use the text tool). Then Filters / Blur / Gaussian Blur on the original text layer.
   

[PixLab]

Write your black text, once it's written, just go to the top menu Filters ➤ Light and Shadow ➤ Drop Shadow....
input the settings below (click on the image below to get full size)