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Big Text in/with animal Shape - n4x - 01-26-2018

Hey,

I want to make a big poster with a giant text in the form of an animal or with the shape of an animal inside of it.

Is this possible with gimp2 or can you maybe recommend a way to make this happen?
I need it as a present and als the copy-shops in my area are unable to create this, they need it to be prepared als img Wink

n4x

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - rich2005 - 01-26-2018

Big Poster? You might be better off with a vector application such as Inkscape.

Then with Gimp. Depends on the animal shape, some will be more suitable than others, A shark shape, maybe, a monkey shape - not easy.

This using a bend path plugin to deform the original text to the outline screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/RoLYlde.jpg

Just as a thought, not giant text, but lots of text cropped into a shape https://i.imgur.com/IzfgrP8.jpg

If you could give more details of (a) animal (b) required text, maybe someone will come up with ideas.

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - Espermaschine - 01-26-2018

maybe OP wants something like this ?

https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-typography-illustrations-the-easy-way

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - n4x - 01-26-2018

More like an entire bachelor thesis in cow format or around aempty cow shape Smile

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - Espermaschine - 01-26-2018

sounds like an Inkscape flowed text job

or just cut it out in Gimp, but that will mean that some letters will get cut off

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - rich2005 - 01-27-2018

(01-26-2018, 08:11 PM)n4x Wrote: More like an entire bachelor thesis in cow format or around aempty cow shape Smile

I think that will have to be Inkscape but remember what I said about some shapes easier than others. Cow legs might be a problem unless the text is very small. 

Flowed text into a shape is a little easier than around a shape. Plenty of how-to's if you search or ask on the inkscape forum http://www.inkscapeforum.com/

Unlike Gimp Inkscape being a vector application does work in real-world units, so examples using A3 size. 

[Image: bXEQZIo.jpg]

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - n4x - 01-27-2018

Thanks for the help, I will check if its possible with Incscape Smile

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - Blighty - 01-27-2018

(01-27-2018, 11:57 AM)n4x Wrote: Thanks for the help, I will check if its possible with Incscape Smile

Rich's cow example is Inkscape.

RE: Big Text in/with animal Shape - Espermaschine - 01-27-2018

(01-27-2018, 11:28 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Cow legs might be a problem unless the text is very small.

I just learned that these stray words (or word fragments) are called widows and orphans and Typography uses Tracking to fix this for better reading quality.
Tracking stretches the space between text (that is both: between word and letters) to achieve an even look.

Its not entirely applicable to the cow leg situation but, the equivalent of tracking can be used to adjust flowed text.



BTW: the quest continues here:

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33356