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Info chart on photo - thomasliltorp - 11-18-2018
Hi,
Can you help me try to immulate this "info" chart.
What is the easiest way to insert numbers/letters surrounded by squares or circles (depending on the score according to par the golfer makes (Bogey = square, birdie = circle)
Please see attachment for illustration :-)
RE: Info chart on photo - Blighty - 11-18-2018
Is this just a one off; or are you doing a whole bunch of them on a regular basis? If the latter, it will be worthwhile putting in a little extra effort and creating a template.
RE: Info chart on photo - rich2005 - 11-18-2018
I do know there are fonts with numbers in circles/squares: https://www.dafont.com/numberpile.font & https://www.dafont.com/cd-numbers.font
Another way, is make a Gimp brush to 'stamp' the circle/square, if you make a greyscale image and export as a .gbr, the brush can take the FG colour. example https://i.imgur.com/w7vDIss.jpg
Or as Blighty pointed out make a template. I went a bit overboard with this to see how much effort it takes. Mainly duplicating layers in Layer groups.
It then becomes a matter of toggling visibility on/off for various layers. Scores are text layers with zero as a marker to be replaced. example https://i.imgur.com/xSgPtwf.jpg
I do think that the size of the image will come into it, 800 pix wide I think is about the minimum, smaller than that and numbers become pixellated. Up to you what size you use but larger is better.
FWIW example attached.