![]() In the camera you're asked to point the camera at something that should be taken as "white" and the camera sets its white balance appropriately. This is very similar to setting a custom white balance in most digital cameras. It asks you to click on a place in the picture that should be taken as white, and it recomputes the image appropriately. Gimp's white balance tool doesn't support this, unfortunately, since it only has an "automatic white balance" tool.įor Graphic Converter the "Effect" menu has a choice named "White Correction". In Graphic Converter (and some other programs) you can set a custom white balance using a color picker to select a section of the picture that should be white. We'll take this a bit further, but we first need to talk about what I did. We could almost stop here (after darkening it a bit) because it looks like an old-school black-and-white infrared photo. ![]() Immediately the picture is so much better. You're about to make a change to the photo and with the duplicated layer you can easily flip back and forth to see how well the change worked out. The first step - if your photo editing program supports layers (as Graphic Converter and Gimp do) - duplicate the layer. How do you take a good infrared picture with a camera that doesn't support a custom white balance? Fortunately most photo editing programs (Gimp et al) can manipulate the white balance. But, even if I could go back in time, the camera in question doesn't even support setting a custom white balance. In this case I took the picture 15 years ago, and lacking a TARDIS I can't go back in time to set the white balance in the camera. ![]() For example the recommendation is to point the camera at some grass to set the white balance - because in the infrared grass looks white. Obviously in the infrared the camera doesn't have a clue what white looks like. Inkscape to see which program is best for the project you’re working on.ĭo you have a better method for creating curved text in GIMP? Let me know in the comments and I’ll take a look.It's widely recommended to use a camera that can set the white balance. It’s also very user-friendly and a great tool in your graphic designer’s toolkit! Check out my guide of GIMP vs. Inkscape is also free and open-source just like GIMP, so you don’t need to worry about paying for new software. By comparison, Inkscape has much better text handling and allows you to type along a path while still leaving the text editable in case you need to revise it in the future. If you’re creating a lot of curved text, GIMP will quickly become a source of frustration thanks to its limited text options. Let’s look forwards to GIMP 3! A Better Option for Curved Text In my experience, this can get frustrating fairly quickly, but perhaps you’ve got more patience than I do □Īll of this automatic path creation makes me wonder why GIMP doesn’t have support for vector shapes or more effective path and text handling overall, but I suppose that’s partly the legacy of previous versions that relied upon now-outdated technology. If you want to change the content of your curved text, you’ll have to go back to the very beginning of the process and do it all over again. ![]() ![]() At this point, your text won’t be editable anymore, but you can apply any other edits or transforms just the way you would with any normal pixel layer. Click the Fill button, and GIMP will use the curved text path as a stencil for filling with your chosen foreground color. ![]()
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